From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: MPX8xx: MMC over SPI.... From: Jaap-Jan Boor To: Wolfgang Denk Cc: Kate Alhola , David Jander , linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <20040309235955.BC6B7C0655@atlas.denx.de> References: <20040309235955.BC6B7C0655@atlas.denx.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1078907569.16004.9.camel@linpc003.aimsys.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:32:49 +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi, I agree in this with Wolfgang, I have had very bad experiences with SPI as inter processor communication channel in the past. And then you are in the luxury position of having 'intelligence' (processors) on both sides which can detect and clean up the CPM's SPI mess. Jaap-Jan On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 00:59, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > I don't know your exact application, but it always gives me the > creeps when I read the phrases "mass storage device" and "SPI bus" in > the same sentence. I tend to summarize this as follows: > "mass storage device" + "SPI bus" = need for redesign :-) > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > > -- > Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux > Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de > By the way, ALL software projects are done by iterative prototyping. > Some companies call their prototypes "releases", that's all. > ____ J.G.J. Boor Anton Philipsweg 1 Software Engineer 1223 KZ Hilversum AimSys bv tel. +31 35 689 1941 Postbus 2194, 1200 CD Hilversum mailto:jjboor@aimsys.nl ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/