[U-Boot-Users] Atmel DataFlash hooks.

Haavard Skinnemoen
2007-01-30T01:16:49Z

On 1/30/07, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> In message <1defaf580701291628s572e1092re30ea906140e2a30@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> >
> > Maybe it would be better to create a different set of commands for
> > manipulating any kind of raw storage (including flash) and let the
> > memory commands deal with memory.
>
> Exclude flash here, and we already have such an interface:
> "<bus> read ..." and "<bus> write", for example "eeprom read" or
> "ide read" or "usb read" or ...

Ah, how come there's no "mmc read" and "mmc write"?

Btw, flash isn't entirely excluded as nand flash seems to use the same
interface.

> > Exactly. It's just absurd to pretend removable storage devices reside
> > in physical memory.
>
> Not per se. We could want to support removable memory modules (hot
> swap RAM - now that would be fun :-)

Yeah, of course. I really meant storage devices that aren't actually
behaving like physical memory.

Haavard