Re: Intel P30 flash support MTD 2.4.16 kernel

Dan Merillat
2006-05-17T21:50:30Z

On 5/16/06, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 15:56 -0700, Jayasri Sangu wrote:
> > We are using 2.4.16 kernel on our powerpc 8260 board. Currently we
> > are using 28F320C3 flash and it works fine with the MTD(JFFS2).
> >
> > We are planning to change to P30 flash. Does 2.4.16 kernel supports
> > this flash?
> >
> > If not what are my choices?
>
> 2.6.16.

If it fails, turn on DEBUG_CFI_FEATURES in
drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c and check
for Simultaneous Operations. Some P30 versions erroniously set that
bit and fail horribly as a result. I spent a week trying to figure
that out.