MTD basic and configuration

1. Introduction
   

MTD device is made up of blocks. Operation includes read, write and erase.Erase operation operates on blocks or whole device.
2. How to set up MTD device

• Specify the partitions on Flash device

• Specify the type of Flash and location

• Configure flash driver for your chosen chip

• Configure the kernel with the appropriate driver

3. How to communicate flash partitions to the linux kernel

• RedBoot partition table parsing(redboot is a bootloader for ARM )
  
• Command line partition table parsing

First, enable it on kernel configuration.

• Using mtd partition mapping drivers (see drivers/mtd/maps for examples)