From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1.cray.com ([136.162.0.111]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30 #5 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1B9Okn-0004re-B7 for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 14:30:37 +0100 Message-ID: <406D6AF3.9010808@cray.com> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 07:30:27 -0600 From: David Updegraff MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse References: <1080830176.24117.1858.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <406CAD57.40004@cray.com> <1080885452.17863.39.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1080885452.17863.39.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: patch for AMD am29dl800b List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , > 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.