Re: drivers/mtd/devices/at91_dataflash26.c

Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-05-10T21:31:48Z

Am Donnerstag 10 Mai 2007 22:07 schrieb David Brownell:
> On Friday 27 April 2007, David Brownell wrote:
> > On Friday 27 April 2007, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
> >
> > > > the m25p80 driver
> > > > was pretty close to working with those Atmel devices too ...
> > > > most of the commands are identical.
> > >
> > > Thanks for that hint, I'll have a look at the data sheet.
>
> Any progress on that? I looked again, and yes most commands
> are identical.
>
> - That driver relies on an AT91-only SPI stack that's not
> going upstream, instead of drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c;
>
> - Driver can't even be selected on kernel.org kernel (!!);
>
> - The m25p80 driver will need at most minor tweaks to
> handle those AT26 (and AT25) series chips;
>
> So 340ea370c2ce89d1c15fbf785460f2f74314ce58 should be reverted.
>
> - Dave
>

Dave,
sorry for not responding earlier, I was busy with lots of other
stuff. At the moment, I'm working on this again. I had a bit
of trouble getting a recent kernel working on my test system,
but that seems to be OK now.

You'll hear from me soon.

Thanks,
Hans