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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] flash_real_protect() and CFI_CMDSET_AMD_STANDARD
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 14:17:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BEDA1D8.7080802@freescale.com> (raw)

I'm trying to add support for AMD manufacturer ID to flash_real_protect().
The code currently does this:

	case CFI_CMDSET_AMD_EXTENDED:
	case CFI_CMDSET_AMD_STANDARD:
		/* U-Boot only checks the first byte */
		if (info->manufacturer_id == (uchar)ATM_MANUFACT) {
			...
		}
		break;

Unfortunately, I don't really understand CFI programming that well, but from
my research, it appears to me that AMD chips that implement the AMD standard
command set will work with this code:

	case CFI_CMDSET_INTEL_PROG_REGIONS:
	case CFI_CMDSET_INTEL_STANDARD:
	case CFI_CMDSET_INTEL_EXTENDED:
		flash_write_cmd (info, sector, 0,
				 FLASH_CMD_CLEAR_STATUS);
		flash_write_cmd (info, sector, 0, FLASH_CMD_PROTECT);
		if (prot)
			flash_write_cmd (info, sector, 0,
				FLASH_CMD_PROTECT_SET);
		else
			flash_write_cmd (info, sector, 0,
				FLASH_CMD_PROTECT_CLEAR);
		break;

So I don't understand the need for Rafael Campos' patch:

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2008-July/037419.html

It looks as if Rafael removed support for hardware flash protection from all
AMD standard/extended flash chips that are not made by Atmel.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

             reply	other threads:[~2010-05-14 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-14 19:17 Timur Tabi [this message]
2010-05-17  8:49 ` [U-Boot] flash_real_protect() and CFI_CMDSET_AMD_STANDARD Stefan Roese

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