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unsik Kim 3fbed4c61a mflash: initial support 
This driver supports mflash IO mode for linux.

Mflash is embedded flash drive and mainly targeted mobile and consumer
electronic devices.

Internally, mflash has nand flash and other hardware logics and supports 2
different operation (ATA, IO) modes.  ATA mode doesn't need any new driver
and currently works well under standard IDE subsystem.  Actually it's one
chip SSD.  IO mode is ATA-like custom mode for the host that doesn't have
IDE interface.

Followings are brief descriptions about IO mode.
A. IO mode based on ATA protocol and uses some custom command. (read confirm,
write confirm)
B. IO mode uses SRAM bus interface.
C. IO mode supports 4kB boot area, so host can boot from mflash.

This driver is quitely similar to a standard ATA driver, but because of
following reasons it is currently seperated with ATA layer.

1. ATA layer deals standard ATA protocol.  ATA layer have many low-
   level device specific interface, but data transfer keeps ATA rule.
   But, mflash IO mode doesn't.

2. Even though currently not used in mflash driver code, mflash has
   some custom command and modes.  (nand fusing, firmware patch, etc) If
   this feature supported in linux kernel, ATA layer more altered.

3. Currently PATA platform device driver doesn't support interrupt.
   (I'm not sure) But, mflash uses interrupt (polling mode is just for
   debug).

4. mflash is somewhat under-develop product.  Even though some company
   already using mflash their own product, I think more time is needed for
   standardization of custom command and mode.  That time (maybe October)
   I will talk to with ATA people.  If they accept integration, I will
   integrate.

Signed-off-by: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-07 08:12:38 +02:00
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ABI Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
accounting Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: fix endless loop 2009-01-15 16:39:37 -08:00
acpi ACPI: update debug parameter documentation 2008-11-07 21:45:29 -05:00
aoe aoe: user can ask driver to forget previously detected devices 2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
arm Merge branch 'next-s3c-pm' of git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linux into devel 2009-03-26 22:44:43 +00:00
auxdisplay .gitignore updates 2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
blackfin Blackfin arch: Add document about bfin-gpio 2009-01-07 23:14:38 +08:00
block block: Repeated lines in switching-sched.txt 2009-03-26 11:01:28 +01:00
blockdev mflash: initial support 2009-04-07 08:12:38 +02:00
cdrom doc/cdrom: Trvial documentation error, file not present 2008-10-10 08:22:44 +02:00
cgroups Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-04-03 15:24:35 -07:00
connector Documentation/connector/cn_test.c: don't use gfp_any() 2009-02-12 16:47:01 -08:00
console Typo: fro -> from 2007-07-19 10:04:47 -07:00
cpu-freq [CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: sanitize sampling_rate restrictions 2009-02-24 22:47:31 -05:00
cpuidle cpuidle: Add Documentation 2008-02-14 00:16:13 -05:00
cris fix random typos 2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
crypto async_tx, dmaengine: document channel allocation and api rework 2009-01-05 18:10:19 -07:00
development-process Fix a typo in the development process document. 2009-01-08 16:32:13 -07:00
device-mapper dm crypt: add documentation 2008-04-25 13:27:03 +01:00
DocBook docbook: fix fatal filename error 2009-04-06 13:43:42 -07:00
driver-model PATCH [1/2] Documentation/driver-model/device.txt: fix struct device_attribute 2009-02-22 09:27:15 -08:00
dvb V4L/DVB (11138): get_dvb_firmware: add support for downloading the cx2584x firmware for pvrusb2 2009-03-30 12:43:31 -03:00
early-userspace Documentation: Remove last references to BitKeeper. 2008-04-21 22:19:05 +00:00
fault-injection fault-injection: fix example scripts in documentation 2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
fb fbdev: remove cyblafb driver 2009-04-01 08:59:33 -07:00
filesystems Merge branch 'for-2.6.30' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2009-04-06 13:25:56 -07:00
firmware_class firmware_sample_driver.c: fix coding style 2008-04-21 22:23:30 +00:00
frv move frv docs one level up 2008-02-03 15:54:28 +02:00
hwmon hwmon: Add LTC4215 driver 2009-04-01 08:59:21 -07:00
i2c Move the pcf8591 driver to hwmon 2009-03-30 21:46:43 +02:00
i2o documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8 2007-05-09 08:58:19 +02:00
ia64 trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware 2009-03-30 15:21:59 +02:00
ide ide: update warm-plug HOWTO 2009-01-06 17:21:00 +01:00
infiniband IB/umad: Add P_Key index support 2007-10-09 19:59:15 -07:00
input Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc9' into next 2008-12-20 04:54:54 -05:00
ioctl V4L/DVB (10870a): remove all references for video_decoder.h 2009-03-30 12:43:15 -03:00
isdn Rationalise Randy's address a bit 2008-10-30 11:38:47 -07:00
ja_JP Sync patch for jp_JP/stable_kernel_rules.txt 2009-01-28 15:55:48 -08:00
kbuild kbuild: fix kbuild.txt typos 2009-01-14 21:42:51 +01:00
kdump powerpc: Support for relocatable kdump kernel 2008-10-22 15:01:22 +11:00
ko_KR HOWTO: update misspelling and word incorrected 2007-12-17 10:33:19 -08:00
laptops Merge branch 'thinkpad-acpi' into release 2009-04-05 01:42:09 -04:00
lguest lguest: barrier me harder 2009-03-30 21:55:26 +10:30
m68k [SCSI] 53c7xx: fix removal fallout 2008-01-11 18:22:30 -06:00
make Documentation/make/headers_install.txt 2007-10-17 08:43:05 -07:00
mips ide: remove unused CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_AU1XXX_SEQTS_PER_RQ 2009-01-14 19:19:03 +01:00
misc-devices drivers/misc/isl29003.c: driver for the ISL29003 ambient light sensor 2009-04-01 08:59:18 -07:00
mn10300 mn10300: add the MN10300/AM33 architecture to the kernel 2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
mtd [MTD] [NAND] nand_ecc.c: rewrite for improved performance 2008-08-16 10:55:33 +01:00
namespaces The namespaces compatibility list doc 2007-11-29 09:24:53 -08:00
netlabel Fix occurrences of "the the " 2007-05-09 08:57:56 +02:00
networking Neterion: Driver help file 2009-04-02 00:33:39 -07:00
parisc
PCI PCI MSI: Add example request loop to MSI-HOWTO.txt 2009-03-20 11:35:04 -07:00
pcmcia .gitignore updates 2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
power pm: document use of RTC in pm_trace 2008-10-16 11:21:29 -07:00
powerpc Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6 2009-04-06 14:56:26 -07:00
prctl generic, x86: add tests for prctl PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC 2008-04-19 19:19:55 +02:00
RCU Doc: Fix spelling in RCU/rculist_nulls.txt. 2009-04-02 01:33:51 -07:00
s390 documentation: update s390 header file paths 2009-01-06 15:59:28 -08:00
scheduler trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to 2009-03-30 15:22:02 +02:00
scsi [SCSI] aacraid driver update 2009-04-03 09:23:11 -05:00
serial Create/use more directory structure in the Documentation/ tree. 2008-11-14 17:28:53 +00:00
sh sh: Kill off remaining CONFIG_SH_KGDB bits. 2008-12-22 18:44:05 +09:00
sound Merge branch 'topic/oxygen' into for-linus 2009-03-24 00:36:17 +01:00
sparc sparc: Remove Documentation/sparc/sbus_drivers.txt 2008-08-29 02:15:25 -07:00
spi hwmon: (lm70) Code streamlining and cleanup 2009-01-07 16:37:34 +01:00
sysctl documentation: fix unix_dgram_qlen description 2009-04-02 19:04:53 -07:00
telephony remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation 2008-07-22 19:24:29 +10:00
thermal thermal: update the documentation 2008-04-29 02:49:47 -04:00
timers hpet: /dev/hpet - fixes and cleanup 2008-07-31 18:45:41 +02:00
tracers doc: mmiotrace.txt, buffer size control change 2009-02-15 20:05:13 +01:00
uml Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
usb USB: usbmon: Add binary API v1 2009-03-24 16:20:36 -07:00
video4linux V4L/DVB (11225): v4lgrab: fix compilation warnings 2009-03-30 12:43:41 -03:00
vm Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
w1 w1: send status messages after command processing 2009-01-08 08:31:14 -08:00
watchdog .gitignore updates 2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
wimax i2400m: documentation and instructions for usage 2009-01-07 10:00:18 -08:00
x86 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-04-03 15:24:35 -07:00
zh_CN Chinese: add translation of Codingstyle 2008-01-24 20:40:04 -08:00
00-INDEX trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to 2009-03-30 15:22:02 +02:00
applying-patches.txt
atomic_ops.txt documentation: atomic_add_unless() doesn't imply mb() on failure 2008-02-23 17:52:36 -08:00
bad_memory.txt Document handling of bad memory 2008-12-03 16:09:53 -07:00
basic_profiling.txt
binfmt_misc.txt documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8 2007-05-09 08:58:19 +02:00
braille-console.txt Basic braille screen reader support 2008-04-30 08:29:52 -07:00
bt8xxgpio.txt gpio: add bt8xxgpio driver 2008-07-25 10:53:30 -07:00
BUG-HUNTING Documentation: add hint about call traces & module symbols to BUG-HUNTING 2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
c2port.txt Add c2 port support 2008-11-12 17:17:18 -08:00
cachetlb.txt remove unused flush_tlb_pgtables 2007-10-19 11:53:34 -07:00
Changes Documentation/Changes: add required versions for new filesystems 2009-01-29 18:19:30 -08:00
CodingStyle fix emacs indenting howto filename expansion 2009-01-29 18:19:29 -08:00
cpu-hotplug.txt x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed 2008-12-18 12:08:05 +01:00
cpu-load.txt [PATCH] Documentation: CPU load calculation description 2007-03-01 14:53:39 -08:00
cputopology.txt cpumask: Use topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask() 2009-01-11 19:12:49 +01:00
credentials.txt CRED: Documentation 2008-11-14 10:39:26 +11:00
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt Documentation: Clarify when module debugging actually works. 2008-02-03 15:27:38 +02:00
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt firewire: fw-ohci: add option for remote debugging 2008-04-18 17:55:33 +02:00
dell_rbu.txt trivial: fix an -> a typos in documentation and comments 2009-01-06 11:28:07 +01:00
devices.txt LANANA: Fix dates 2009-04-06 14:54:17 -07:00
DMA-API.txt dma-debug: Documentation update 2009-03-17 12:56:47 +01:00
DMA-attributes.txt powerpc/cell: Add DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING dma attribute and use in Cell IOMMU code 2008-07-22 10:39:36 +10:00
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'T'' 2006-11-30 04:55:36 +01:00
DMA-mapping.txt documentation: update header file paths 2009-01-06 15:59:28 -08:00
dmaengine.txt async_tx, dmaengine: document channel allocation and api rework 2009-01-05 18:10:19 -07:00
dontdiff dontdiff: Fix asm exclude 2009-03-26 15:45:43 -07:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt Dynamic debug: allow simple quoting of words 2009-03-24 16:38:27 -07:00
edac.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
eisa.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
email-clients.txt Documentation/email-clients.txt: add some info about gmail 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
exception.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
feature-removal-schedule.txt i2c: Deprecate client_register and client_unregister methods 2009-04-06 18:12:24 +02:00
ftrace.txt ftrace: fix documentation typo s/trace_max_latency/tracing_max_latency/ 2009-03-08 16:50:07 +01:00
gpio.txt gpio: gpio_{request,free}() now required (feature removal) 2009-04-02 19:04:51 -07:00
highuid.txt [SPARC]: Remove SunOS and Solaris binary support. 2008-04-21 15:10:15 -07:00
HOWTO Remove Andrew Morton's http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ 2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
hw_random.txt hw_random doc updates 2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
ics932s401 ics932s401: new clock generator chip driver 2008-11-12 17:17:18 -08:00
initrd.txt use the newc archive format as requested by initramfs 2008-02-03 14:54:41 +02:00
Intel-IOMMU.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt io mapping: improve documentation 2008-11-03 18:21:44 +01:00
IO-mapping.txt Documentation: move DMA-mapping.txt to Doc/PCI/ 2009-01-29 18:19:29 -08:00
iostats.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
IPMI.txt IPMI: new NMI handling 2007-10-18 14:37:32 -07:00
IRQ-affinity.txt genirq: Expose default irq affinity mask (take 3) 2008-06-05 15:18:30 +02:00
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isapnp.txt
java.txt Documentation/java.txt: typo and grammar fixes 2007-10-20 02:37:21 +02:00
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt kernel-doc: preferred ending marker and examples 2009-02-11 14:25:36 -08:00
kernel-docs.txt doc: update to URL and status of kernel-docs.txt entry 2008-06-06 11:29:10 -07:00
kernel-parameters.txt docs: alphabetize entries in kernel-parameters.txt 2009-04-06 13:43:43 -07:00
keys-request-key.txt keys: allow the callout data to be passed as a blob rather than a string 2008-04-29 08:06:16 -07:00
keys.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
kobject.txt kobject: Make Documentation/kobject.txt a little more coherent. 2009-01-06 10:44:32 -08:00
kprobes.txt kprobes: support probing module __exit function 2009-01-06 15:59:21 -08:00
kref.txt docs: convert kref semaphore to mutex 2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
ldm.txt LDM: Fix for Windows Vista dynamic disks 2007-05-21 09:58:40 -07:00
leds-class.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
local_ops.txt documentation: local_ops fix on_each_cpu 2008-12-01 13:51:26 +01:00
lockdep-design.txt lockdep: get_user_chars() redo 2009-02-14 23:28:22 +01:00
lockstat.txt lockstat: contend with points 2008-10-20 15:43:10 +02:00
logo.svg linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz 2009-03-16 07:55:37 -07:00
logo.txt linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz 2009-03-16 07:55:37 -07:00
magic-number.txt documentation: update header file paths 2009-01-06 15:59:28 -08:00
Makefile docsrc: build Documentation/ sources 2008-08-12 16:07:30 -07:00
ManagementStyle docs: fix ManagementStyle book name 2008-10-30 11:38:46 -07:00
markers.txt markers: comment marker_synchronize_unregister() on data dependency 2008-11-28 16:47:41 +01:00
mca.txt The ps2esdi driver was marked as BROKEN more than two years ago due to being 2008-03-17 09:03:05 +01:00
md.txt Documentation/md.txt update 2009-03-31 15:18:37 +11:00
memory-barriers.txt read_barrier_depends arch fixlets 2008-05-14 10:05:18 -07:00
memory-hotplug.txt mm: show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs 2009-01-06 15:59:00 -08:00
memory.txt
mono.txt Fix "can not" in Documentation and Kconfig 2006-10-03 22:53:09 +02:00
mutex-design.txt Documentation: Add nested versions of mutex locks to docs 2007-10-20 00:15:26 +02:00
nmi_watchdog.txt x86, nmi-watchdog: update procfs nmi_watchdog file documentation v2 2008-10-30 19:07:04 +01:00
nommu-mmap.txt NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable. 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
numastat.txt
oops-tracing.txt Taint kernel after WARN_ON(condition) 2008-04-29 08:05:59 -07:00
parport-lowlevel.txt plip: fix parport_register_device name parameter 2007-11-26 19:39:01 -08:00
parport.txt
pi-futex.txt fix a typo in Documentation/pi-futex.txt 2006-10-03 23:39:02 +02:00
pnp.txt Documentation: Replace obsolete "driverfs" with "sysfs". 2008-01-24 20:40:04 -08:00
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt DOC: add printk-formats.txt 2008-11-12 17:17:17 -08:00
prio_tree.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
rbtree.txt [PATCH] Documentation/rbtree.txt 2007-02-11 10:51:35 -08:00
rfkill.txt rfkill: add master_switch_mode and EPO lock to rfkill and rfkill-input 2008-10-31 19:00:09 -04:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
robust-futexes.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : Misc 2006-11-30 05:21:10 +01:00
rt-mutex-design.txt
rt-mutex.txt
rtc.txt rtc: cleanup example code 2008-02-06 10:41:14 -08:00
SAK.txt Remove Andrew Morton's old email accounts 2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
SecurityBugs
SELinux.txt selinux: add support for installing a dummy policy (v2) 2008-08-27 08:54:08 +10:00
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
sgi-visws.txt
slow-work.txt Document the slow work thread pool 2009-04-03 16:42:35 +01:00
SM501.txt Tweak Documentation/SM501.txt 2007-10-17 08:43:06 -07:00
Smack.txt smack: Add a new '-CIPSO' option to the network address label configuration 2009-03-28 15:01:37 +11:00
sparse.txt kbuild: sparse needs CF not CHECKFLAGS 2008-07-25 22:12:39 +02:00
spinlocks.txt Add additional examples in Documentation/spinlocks.txt 2008-04-11 13:21:14 -06:00
stable_api_nonsense.txt stable_api_nonsense.txt: Disambiguate the use of "this" by using "that" to refer to the syscall interface 2007-07-30 14:25:12 -07:00
stable_kernel_rules.txt Update stable tree documentation 2008-10-29 15:03:49 -07:00
SubmitChecklist documentation: explain memory barriers 2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
SubmittingDrivers Remove Andrew Morton's old email accounts 2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
SubmittingPatches Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6 2008-10-16 12:18:16 -07:00
svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt sysfs-rules.txt: reword API stability statement 2008-07-21 21:54:59 -07:00
sysrq.txt Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus 2009-04-02 00:49:02 +02:00
tracepoints.txt tracing: Documentation / sample code fixes for tracepoints 2009-03-24 22:32:12 +01:00
unaligned-memory-access.txt introduce HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol 2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
unicode.txt
unshare.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
VGA-softcursor.txt
video-output.txt output: Add output class document 2006-12-20 01:46:58 -05:00
volatile-considered-harmful.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
voyager.txt
zorro.txt