From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:02:04 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [patch] add support for "eeprom info" In-Reply-To: <20080125150951.4632724344@gemini.denx.de> References: <20080125150951.4632724344@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <200801251102.04814.vapier@gentoo.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 Friday 25 January 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Well, there is a big difference between NOR flash and your device: > NOR flash is memory, but your's is a storage device attached to some > bus interface (SPI here). The problem is that we don't have a good > solution to interface with such devices yet. > > Using the eeprom command for such devices is misleading, IMO. If you > can live with the spiflash command, then this is not perfect, but I > guess it will have to do for now as we don't have a better solution > yet. so we're clear, the proposed interface is: spiflash info spiflash address offset count spiflash erase offset count and once this comes together (i dont think it'll take long), we can consider a generic "flash" command. i'm still not sure what it'll gain us (if anything) ... but i guess once we have more things to look at and compare, we can make a better decision -mike -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20080125/284d7690/attachment.pgp