From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:05:55 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [rfc] new spiflash subsystem In-Reply-To: <200801290907.45690.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <200801281500.34869.vapier@gentoo.org> <007701c86250$2a914b90$050514ac@atmel.com> <200801290907.45690.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <200801300805.55888.vapier@gentoo.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Ulf Samuelsson wrote: > > ==> And this is not a good approach, you want the S/W to use the > > first 256 kB to store initial boot, U-boot and environment. > > The AT91SAM9 chips will use the first 8 kB sector > > for the AT91bootstrap, and that should have protection separate > > from U-Boot code. AVR32 boot ROM will boot from a higher address and use > > the 8 kB sector at address zero as environment. > > Both will need to have a S/W partitioning scheme added with > > separate protection for each partition. > > This partioning scheme exists today. > > sorry, i didnt mean to imply i thought this limitation was something to be > written in stone. i understand perfectly why you would want this > flexibility, so i can take a look. rather than making general statements, > can you please provide a concrete list of all relevant examples you know > of. Ulf: can you at least follow up to this so i have a goal to work towards ? maybe i'll demand some sample parts if you want support ! :) -mike -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20080130/07f29032/attachment.pgp