[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Where does U-Boot's CFI driver check for top/bottom boot?

Tolunay Orkun
2006-11-07T00:51:04Z

timur at freescale.com wrote:
> From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
>
> This patch adds support for the reversed geometry data in some AMD flash
> chips.
>
> I'm not proud of this patch, so I'm posting it for review only. I know it
> works on the my board that was the problem, but I have no idea if it will
> break any other board. I'm sure this code could be improved a lot.

NAK. It will break any bottom boot AMD flash. I have reviewed Linux MTD
driver and the coder had nice things to say about AMD regarding this
matter (!).

Anyway, I will get proper patch to you to try tonight or tomorrow. I do
not have a board with AMD flash myself.

Tolunay