for your particular device. It won't happen automatically. The
'armflash' map driver (CONFIG_MTD_ARMFLASH) does this, for example.
+config MTD_OF_PARTS
+ tristate "Flash partition map based on OF description"
+ depends on PPC_OF && MTD_PARTITIONS
+ help
+ This provides a partition parsing function which derives
+ the partition map from the children of the flash node,
+ as described in Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt.
+
comment "User Modules And Translation Layers"
config MTD_CHAR