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From: Jaap-Jan Boor <jjboor@aimsys.nl>
To: "Stefan Stürke" <sst@pandatel.com>, "Josh Boyer" <jdub@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: MTD and 28F128J3A
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:53:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092988420.23187.45.camel@linpc003.aimsys.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1092930561.2991.8.camel@weaponx.rchland.ibm.com>

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 17:49, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 10:33, Stefan StÃŒrke wrote:
> 
> > Thank you, nice idea. I just tested it but unfortunatly at
> > my hardware the reset pin of the flash is only triggered
> > by power on reset and not by processor reset. So the
> > checkstop just kills the processor but it still can not
> > read valid code from flash :-(
> 
> I had a situation like that once.  Some may tell you that it's a broken
> board design, which is mostly true.  But we don't always have a say in
> the design of the boards we use ;).
> 
> > 
> > Of course as 'dirty' solution I could write a 0xFF to
> > the flash device before executing 'm8260_gorom()'.
> > In this way the problem should be solved.
> > 
> > But I am afraid that the code in cfi_cmset_0001 has a bug
> > leaving the chip in query mode after writing to it. And that
> > this bug has side effects which I can't see know but which will
> > be seen by our customers.
> > Has anybody ever heard of such behavior of cfi_cmset_0001?
> 
> Is it in CFI query mode, or in Read Status mode?  I have seen it be left
> in Read Status mode after a write, but never CFI query mode.

Yes, that's what I also see. That should be ok.

> 
> Leaving it in Read Status mode shouldn't have any side effects during
> runtime operation, since the MTD code expects that.  It's probably more
> efficient anyway, since the code can't be sure of what the next
> operation will be.
> 
> To solve your reset issue, you could do what you said above.  Or you can
> put the chip in Read Array mode after every write is completed (erase
> too for that matter).  That won't catch all the corner cases though.
> 
> josh
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-20  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-19 11:46 MTD and 28F128J3A Stefan Stürke
2004-08-19 12:48 ` Jaap-Jan Boor
2004-08-19 12:50   ` Jaap-Jan Boor
2004-08-19 15:33   ` Stefan Stürke
2004-08-19 15:49     ` Josh Boyer
2004-08-20  7:53       ` Jaap-Jan Boor [this message]
2004-08-20  8:17       ` Stefan Stürke

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