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From: David Updegraff <dave@cray.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: patch for AMD am29dl800b
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 07:30:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <406D6AF3.9010808@cray.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1080885452.17863.39.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk>


> Please don't reply to unrelated threads. This isn't about bad blocks and
> doesn't live with the message to which you replied.

Whoops.. me aculpa.

> 
> On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 18:01 -0600, David Updegraff wrote:
> 
>>Hi.
>>
>>I have a gadget with this amd chip on it.  Whose id and layout dfn. is 
>>not in the jedec_probe tables.  Unfortuanately, they have _SIX_ (6) 
>>erase regions.  Anyone know of a reason expanding the regions[] array to 
>>6 is a bad idea?  Or why dealing with this chip in general is a bad idea?
> 
> 
> Hmmm. And this chip really doesn't do CFI?

My attempts at that failed; and their PDF only says 'JEDEC compatible'.

> I wonder how much space we take up with this table, and if we should put
> the regions outside the table rather than inline ("ulong *regions").

.. or invent a command-line syntax; since in embedded situations one 
usually knows what one is looking for.. or has that alredy been 
discussed and discarded?

-dbu.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-02 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01 14:06 Bad blocks Kalev Lember
2004-04-01 14:36 ` David Woodhouse
2004-04-02  0:01   ` patch for AMD am29dl800b David Updegraff
2004-04-02  5:57     ` David Woodhouse
2004-04-02 13:30       ` David Updegraff [this message]
2004-04-02 13:39         ` David Woodhouse
2004-04-02  0:14   ` Bad blocks Greg Ungerer
2004-04-04 11:16   ` Kalev Lember

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