From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: mark.langsdorf@amd.com
Cc: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: Processor Specific Files
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:52:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31227.967103576@cygnus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0FA1031B65A9D111960900805F9FA8E103B9F071@txexmta8.amd.com>
mark.langsdorf@amd.com said:
> My problem is that the cfi_probe() code fails if the PARS are
> write-cacheable, since the return value of an earlier probe is
> cached, and then returned for the 4x8 probe.
Why not just fix the BIOS? Making flash regions write-cacheable is just
wrong, surely?
It would possibly be useful to have some generic code in the physmap.c map
driver which attempts to turn of caching for the region it's using - is
there a portable way to call arch-specific routines to do that?
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2000-08-23 21:59 Processor Specific Files mark.langsdorf
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