From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:42:36 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Atmel DataFlash hooks. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:34:44 MST." <528646bc0701261434l6289a3a4pa2b5464566e3a50a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20070127004236.D5293353AF2@atlas.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de In message <528646bc0701261434l6289a3a4pa2b5464566e3a50a@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > > Does anyone see any reason why these hooks couldn't be merged into a > single addr2info type call? If the flash_info_t was modified to Code size? We still want to and have to support U-Boot on systems where the image MUST fit in 128 kB - with a somewhat reasonable feature-set. Omitting the Dataflash stuff is simple at the moment, so please make sure that your new code does not grow for boards that don't use Dataflash at all. > If I took this approach; it could be implemented in a staged approach, > starting with memmapped flash, and then merging in mmc and dataflash > support once the architecture is show to work. It still leaves the Where would you stop? If you go this path, why not add CF and USB and IDE as well? I'm not convinced that would be a good thing to do. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de HANDLE WITH EXTREME CARE: This Product Contains Minute Electrically Charged Particles Moving at Velocities in Excess of Five Hundred Million Miles Per Hour.