Hi Stefan,
now the next try...
Hmmm. Not sure here. Perhaps you could try to enhance the output so that it there printend that much output.
The relation between time spent on NAND operation and progress output may depend on much things like NAND type and size, CPU and bus speeds, console type and speed. So I have changed the patch in a way that the output is only print for whole percent steps. This should reduce the output at reasonable amount independent from this circumstances.
And I also noticed that the output is not correct:
=> nand erase 0 1000000
NAND erase: device 0 offset 0x0, size 0x1000000 Erasing 128 Kibyte at fe0000 -- 1% complete. OK
The 1% is for the complete FLASH size, but I was erasing just a small part of it. I would really like to see 100%, even when erasing a small part.
This is fixed
Maybe a "quiet" option at command line for the related commands (like "clean" option) will be the right way to do it. What do you think about this?
I will rework the patch with your suggestions as soon as provisions to switch on/off the "quiet" option and resubmit it the next days.
Please see my comment above. I don't want the commands to become too complex with lots of options (they are already complex enough). So my suggestion is to change the code that it doesn't slow down the operation anymore.
Now I consider an environment variable "quiet" if set for activating the quiet options. This even permits the usage of the quiet option with macros. To my mind this is a very convenient to apply the option to a sequence of NAND operations.
Furthermore the spelling and grammar fixes from Phil are applied! Phil thank you very much for that!
Regards
Guido