diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
index 4ac2d641fcb6..b3bd36668db3 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
     IBM Corp.
 (c) 2005 Becky Bruce <becky.bruce at freescale.com>,
     Freescale Semiconductor, FSL SOC and 32-bit additions
+(c) 2006 MontaVista Software, Inc.
+    Flash chip node definition
 
    May 18, 2005: Rev 0.1 - Initial draft, no chapter III yet.
 
@@ -1693,6 +1695,43 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model.
 		};
 	};
 
+    g) Flash chip nodes
+
+    Flash chips (Memory Technology Devices) are often used for solid state
+    file systems on embedded devices.
+
+    Required properties:
+
+     - device_type : has to be "rom"
+     - compatible : Should specify what this ROM device is compatible with
+       (i.e. "onenand"). Currently, this is most likely to be "direct-mapped"
+       (which corresponds to the MTD physmap mapping driver).
+     - regs : Offset and length of the register set (or memory mapping) for
+       the device.
+
+    Recommended properties :
+
+     - bank-width : Width of the flash data bus in bytes. Required
+       for the NOR flashes (compatible == "direct-mapped" and others) ONLY.
+     - partitions : Several pairs of 32-bit values where the first value is
+       partition's offset from the start of the device and the second one is
+       partition size in bytes with LSB used to signify a read only
+       partititon (so, the parition size should always be an even number).
+     - partition-names : The list of concatenated zero terminated strings
+       representing the partition names.
+
+   Example:
+
+ 	flash@ff000000 {
+ 		device_type = "rom";
+ 		compatible = "direct-mapped";
+ 		regs = <ff000000 01000000>;
+ 		bank-width = <4>;
+ 		partitions = <00000000 00f80000
+ 			      00f80000 00080001>;
+ 		partition-names = "fs\0firmware";
+ 	};
+
    More devices will be defined as this spec matures.
 
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/Makefile
index bae874626fc3..ee7c6d48af7f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/Makefile
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MMIO_NVRAM)	+= mmio_nvram.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_FSL_SOC)		+= fsl_soc.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TSI108_BRIDGE)	+= tsi108_pci.o tsi108_dev.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_QUICC_ENGINE)	+= qe_lib/
+obj-$(CONFIG_MTD)		+= rom.o
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_PPC_MERGE),y)
 obj-$(CONFIG_PPC_I8259)		+= i8259.o
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/rom.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/rom.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bf5b3f10e6c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/rom.c
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/*
+ * ROM device registration
+ *
+ * (C) 2006 MontaVista Software, Inc. This file is licensed under
+ * the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. This program
+ * is licensed "as is" without any warranty of any kind, whether express
+ * or implied.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <asm/of_device.h>
+
+static int __init powerpc_flash_init(void)
+{
+	struct device_node *node = NULL;
+
+	/*
+	 * Register all the devices which type is "rom"
+	 */
+	while ((node = of_find_node_by_type(node, "rom")) != NULL) {
+		if (node->name == NULL) {
+			printk(KERN_WARNING "powerpc_flash_init: found 'rom' "
+				"device, but with no name, skipping...\n");
+			continue;
+		}
+		of_platform_device_create(node, node->name, NULL);
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+arch_initcall(powerpc_flash_init);