From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kimmo Jukarainen Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 03:38:59 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] CFI flash driver In-Reply-To: <852246F66844CC41A5FE1EF659F98F9003164E94@lisi053a.siemens.pt> References: <852246F66844CC41A5FE1EF659F98F9003164E94@lisi053a.siemens.pt> Message-ID: <20051118013859.GH30112@inside.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 01:08:34PM -0000, Joao Mouro (Ext_NBS) wrote: > We are using CFI compliant flashes (S29GLXXXN) and I would like to know > if it is really necessary to have a board specific driver, or if the cfi_flash.c driver > is enough. I recently ported U-Boot to a custom board utilizing Spansion S29GLxxxM chip. I used drivers/cfi_flash.c, but at least on this particular board it needed an additional patch. I haven't yet verified if this patch is really needed or if it's just an configuration issue. I used a patch by Alex Bastos, that is available on u-boot-users list archives, look for this message [1]: > From: Alex BASTOS > Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] drivers/cfi_flash.c support for 8 BIT mode Spansion CFI Flashes > Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:18:53 +0200 > Message-ID: <1114082333.42678c1d22672@webmail.televes.com:443> [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11540959 -kimju