[U-Boot] [PATCH] flread: new command for reading indirect mapped flashes

Stefan Roese
2009-07-06T06:24:42Z

On Monday 06 July 2009 07:59:25 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 06 July 2009 01:10:58 Stefan Roese wrote:
> > On Sunday 05 July 2009 22:34:39 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > > > i dont mind creating a dedicated command like "fl" that would act
> > > > like "sf" in terms of reading/writing/erasing, but it still must be
> > > > able to leverage the CFI code which means using the weak GPIO
> > > > accessor functions.
> > >
> > > Sounds like a plan.
> >
> > I kind of like the idea to create a new set of commands for accessing
> > such board specific NOR FLASH (can be used on "normal" NOR FLASH as
> > well). Perhaps we could make it "generic" in a way that it can be used
> > for all kind of "MTD devices". How about this "mtd" commandset:
>
> makes sense to me. i'm assuming you're not also proposing doing the first
> cut implementation yourself :).

No, sorry. :)

But we (you?) should wait with such an implementation until we get a bit more
feedback from the community about this.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Stefan

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