Bug 228700

Summary: Enhancement request: please add Motorola ATCA-7221 flash map driver to the standard kernel of RHEL
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Ekaterina Nosova <ekaterina.nosova>
Component: kernelAssignee: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Ekaterina Nosova 2007-02-14 15:57:13 UTC
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Description of problem:
Motorola has a BIOS update tool for the ATCA boards, which requires a specific flash map driver to get access to the flash devices of interest.
Is it possible to add the Motorola map driver to RHEL kernel as standard module?
Thanks in advance!

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How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
Unabdle to access flash device on Mootorola ATCA-7221 board w/o a specific flash map driver.

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Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2012-10-10 11:49:52 UTC
Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has reached the end of Production 1 Phase of its Life Cycle.  Red Hat does not plan to incorporate the suggested capability in a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 minor release. If you would like Red  Hat to re-consider this feature request and the requested functionality is not currently in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, please re-open the request via appropriate support channels and provide additional supporting details about the importance of this issue.