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

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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:
>
> Select MTD NOR device #1 (2nd NOR device):
> => mtd device nor 1
>
> Or via mtdparts/mtdids:
> => mtd device nor0

so both syntaxes would be available when mtdparts support is enabled, or would 
it be one or the other ?  we would want to avoid ambiguity -- is "nor" 
referring to the nor flashes or is it referring to a partition named "nor".

what flash devices does mtdparts support now ?  i'm not really familiar with 
it and the README and doc/ files doesnt seem to cover it.

i guess each flash type would parse the additional commands however it liked 
and so the mtd command would just act as a multiplexer at this point.  the 
current spi flash "sf" command is pretty flexible -- you specify the spi chip 
select to select the device and you can specify other parameters dynamically 
(like frequency).  so when folding it in, we'd have:
=> mtd device sf <cs> [speed] [mode]

common/cmd_mtd.c
common/cmd_mtd_sf.c
common/cmd_mtd_nor.c
...
-mike
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