In message 20070528193940.GA3014@linux-mips.org you wrote:
I'm not sure if anyone's suggested this before, or whether it was well-received or not, but why don't we generalize the cmd_mem syntax a little? For example, let every memory address can be prefixed by an optional "storage specifier" and a ':' character. The default "storage specifier" is "mem", so that if it is omitted everything will work as before, but you can also do things like
As far as I remember it was proposed by Tolunay Orkun in 'Atmel Dataflash hooks' thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/26126 There was no reaction.
No explicit reaction, maybe.
But my position on this is clear: the "mem" commands are supposed to work on memory (bus addressable memaory that is, as previously defined a couple of times). No such prefixes will be accepted.
Instead, support for storage devices shall be handled by the respective storage device commands, like "ide", "usb", "nand", and (to be implemented) "dataflash" (or whatever name will be chosen).
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk