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From: Ankur Maheshwari <ankur_maheshwari@procsys.com>
To: Dave Littell <littelld@verizon.net>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: direct access to Flash from userland
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:30:14 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C4BF6E.9020109@procsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C1F9E2.2030502@verizon.net>

Dave Littell wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>   
>> On Thursday 04 September 2008, Fillod Stephane wrote:
>>     
>>>> Is there a way for a userland application to issue non-CFI commands
>>>> directly to a Flash device?  (This is a 2.6.18-based kernel on a AMCC
>>>> PPC440EPx platform.)
>>>>         
>>> I don't know whether there's specific ioctl for such purpose.
>>> Have you tried to read the mtd source? You may also hack the mtd
>>> layer to add your command. Definitely a question for 
>>> http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/mail.html
>>>
>>>       
>> There is no ioctl command for sending arbitrary requests to the
>> flash, but it sounds like something that should be implemented
>> in the kernel, in mtdchar, depending on what the command does.
>>
>> What are you actually trying to do with those commands?
>>
>>     
>
> Hi Arnd,
>
> There are some sector protection options and a user-writable
> one-time-programmable section that's larger than the presently
> implemented 8-byte area that I need to support.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
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>   
Hi Arnd,

You can consider "fw_env" utility (used for changing [read/write] U-boot 
environment variables from Linux) provided with u-boot source. You still 
need to enable mtd-char support.
Please check u-boot-source/tools/env directory for details.

thanks,
Ankur

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-08  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-04 12:22 direct access to Flash from userland Fillod Stephane
2008-09-05 15:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-09-06  3:32   ` Dave Littell
2008-09-08  6:00     ` Ankur Maheshwari [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-03 23:35 Dave Littell

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