From: Peter Menzebach <pm-armlist@mw-itcon.de>
To: colin <colin@realtek.com.tw>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Does Linux have serial flash drivers?
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:20:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <439FD5BF.1090507@mw-itcon.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01dc01c60057$1b3fab30$106215ac@realtek.com.tw>
colin wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> I noticed this driver before.
> But I think it is strnage that there are many serial Flash chips in the
> world but there is no any corresponding mtd driver in Linux kernel source
> tree.
> What's the reason of this?
>
> Regards,
> Colin
Maybe, because most boards will then need 2 flashs with different
interfaces. Afaik only the Atmel at91... can boot directly from serial
dataflash due to it's internal ROM services.
Even this seems to be not a mainstream way to boot, because the
maintainer of the available bootloader (u-boot) declared that way to
boot deprecated.
In our case it was fine, because this allowed to reduce the size of the
board.
Another reason might be a hen/egg problem. (driver/first board available)
Best regards
Peter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-14 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-13 7:23 Does Linux have serial flash drivers? colin
2005-12-13 8:46 ` Peter Menzebach
2005-12-14 2:35 ` colin
2005-12-14 8:20 ` Peter Menzebach [this message]
2005-12-14 16:05 ` David Jander
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