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

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Friday 25 January 2008, J. William Campbell wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > 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 <read|write> address offset count
> > spiflash erase offset count
>
> This sounds fine to me. The address is obviously a ram
> source/destination address. I vote for an offset in bytes and a count in
> bytes. If the offset is not an appropriate sector boundary, it is an
> error. The count can be a partial sector without problems. Having the
> offset and count in different units is confusing IMHO, so bytes for
> both.

it would be exactly the same as all other interfaces.  we dont hold the users 
hand by calculating pages for them in other places, so we wont here either.  
in other words, yes. ;)

> Also, Mike, I assume you will also add a module similar to 
> env_eeprom.c to support environment in spiflash?

yes
-mike
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