[U-Boot] non-blocking flash functions - is this possible/acceptable?

[Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@ge.com>]

Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> Wolfgang Wegner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we have an update protocol that normally relies on data being
>> received while the previous block is written to flash.

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> My 2c: Overlapping data transfer with flash erase/write operations can 
> be beneficial as it can reduce the programming time substantially. 
> (Erase is less beneficial than write since erases don't happen as often 
> and take a relatively long time, so the overlap optimization savings is 
> a smaller percentage of the total erase time - Amdahl's Law.)

By the way, what sort of benefit do you see?  What is your load time 
with and without the non-blocking changes?

[snip]

>> Regards,
>> Wolfgang

Thanks,
gvb