[U-Boot-Users] [patch] add support for "eeprom info"

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

In message <200801231729.18316.vapier@gentoo.org> you wrote:
> 
> the semantics are irrelevant.  it's an external non-volatile memory device
> accessed via the eeprom command.  the document you posted looks like that 
> device doesnt have any way of querying it, so eeprom_info() for that device 

Indeed. There is no way to query such devices.

> would be useless.  if this is normal among i2c eeproms, i'll repost the patch 

Thsi is normal for basicly *all* EEPROM and FRAM devices I know with
I2C or SPI interfaces.

> with eeprom_info behind CONFIG_SPI.  most SPI flashes nowadays support the
> jedec id command which allows for dynamic detection (which is how the 
> Blackfin SPI driver that i wrote works).  hook up any SPI flash and it "jus> t 
> works".

I think you are doing something wrong when you try to use "eeprom" to
access "SPI flash" - these are differnt entities...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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