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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] What is CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH?
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:46:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B916DBD.7050105@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100305204301.69038E502AE@gemini.denx.de>

Wolfgang Denk wrote:

>> This doesn't tell me anything.
> 
> Hm... What exactly don't you understand here?

Well, I was just wondering what the connection is between DataFlash (which is some flash technology that I don't know much about) and the md command.  

> Why are plain simple memory accesses not possible on your hardware?
> Which architecture / CPU is this?

Because on this one chip I'm working on, the designers decided to mux the LBC address lines with the video signal from the on-board display driver.  No, I'm not kidding about that.  That means that when you're using the video display, you can't access flash.  CONFIG_CFI_FLASH_USE_WEAK_ACCESSORS will allow the saveenv command to continue working under this situation.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-05 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-05 17:15 [U-Boot] What is CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH? Timur Tabi
2010-03-05 19:17 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-03-05 19:23   ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-05 20:43     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-03-05 20:46       ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2010-03-08 16:02         ` Detlev Zundel

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