[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/5] altera_qspi: show erase progress

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

On Monday, December 28, 2015 at 09:04:55 AM, Thomas Chou wrote:
> Hi Marek,

Hi!

> On 2015?12?28? 13:35, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Monday, December 28, 2015 at 02:17:46 AM, Thomas Chou wrote:
> >> Hi Marek,
> >> 
> >> On 2015?12?25? 17:58, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>> On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 09:33:52 AM, Thomas Chou wrote:
> >>>> Hi Marek,
> >>>> 
> >>>> On 2015?12?25? 12:08, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>>>>> Well, it is only a putc() which is plain and simple.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Sure, but then I still don't understand why this cannot be in the
> >>>>> common code.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Yes, it can be in the common code. Do you have an idea how should it
> >>>> look like?
> >>> 
> >>> No, I don't, I am not a CFI expert, sorry.
> >> 
> >> Then I shall push these first and find way to put it to common code some
> >> time later. Thanks.
> > 
> > Is this any way to deal with feedback ? Why don't you put it into
> > flash_erase() for example, in drivers/mtd/cfi_flash.c ?
> 
> Though altera-qspi works like CFI flash, it is not CFI flash as it does
> not have CFI info. It is a separate driver to cfi_flash.c.
> 
> Both drivers and many other parallel flash drivers under the board/arch
> directories are called by common/cmd_flash.c, which is very old and
> somewhat nasty. It could be the place for common feedback. But this is
> too far and deeply involved. I wanted to touch it a month ago, made some
> patches but withdrew then.

I see, thanks for the clarification. OK then.

It'd be nice if you managed to clean that part up eventually :)

Best regards,
Marek Vasut