[U-Boot] [PATCH u-boot-arm/next 1/2] OMAP3: igep00x0: Add config option to choose flash storage memory

[Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>]

On 07/16/2012 04:41 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:

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> Runtime detection is possible reading the sysboot as you said (in fact
> this is how we do it in the kernel) but as Tom said I didn't find a
> common way to do this. I guess you can manually detect the NAND type
> and configure the GPMC registers on the board code but I didn't see
> other OMAP boards doing this. Instead I found other examples of boards
> using compile options to choose between memory types.
> 
> Of course I will be more than glad if you have a better approach to
> solve this :-)

The biggest problem is that today we don't have a way to read/write
environment to a dynamically detected backing store.  I had an idea on
how to do this, but given the device model will also allow for this,
easier, that's the way to go.

-- 
Tom