Ramix PMC551 PCI Mezzanine RAM card support
modulename: pmc551.ko
configname: CONFIG_MTD_PMC551
Linux Kernel Configuration
└─>Device Drivers
└─>Memory Technology Device (MTD) support
└─>Self-contained MTD device drivers
└─>PCI support
└─>Ramix PMC551 PCI Mezzanine RAM card support
In linux kernel since version 2.6.20 (release Date: 2007-02-04)
This provides a MTD device driver for the Ramix PMC551 RAM PCI card
from Ramix Inc. <http://www.ramix.com/products/memory/pmc551.html>.
These devices come in memory configurations from 32M - 1G. If you
have one, you probably want to enable this.
If this driver is compiled as a module you get the ability to select
the size of the aperture window pointing into the devices memory.
What this means is that if you have a 1G card, normally the kernel
will use a 1G memory map as its view of the device. As a module,
you can select a 1M window into the memory and the driver will
"slide" the window around the PMC551's memory. This was
particularly useful on the 2.2 kernels on PPC architectures as there
was limited kernel space to deal with.
from Ramix Inc. <http://www.ramix.com/products/memory/pmc551.html>.
These devices come in memory configurations from 32M - 1G. If you
have one, you probably want to enable this.
If this driver is compiled as a module you get the ability to select
the size of the aperture window pointing into the devices memory.
What this means is that if you have a 1G card, normally the kernel
will use a 1G memory map as its view of the device. As a module,
you can select a 1M window into the memory and the driver will
"slide" the window around the PMC551's memory. This was
particularly useful on the 2.2 kernels on PPC architectures as there
was limited kernel space to deal with.