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Stefan Roese wrote:
On Saturday 25 November 2006 17:42, Matvejchikov Ilya wrote:
And a new board port with a board specific flash driver that is not needed, meaning when CFI compliant FLASH chips are used, will not be accepted anymore.
What FLASH chips are you using?
Unfortunately, we are use very old AMD flash chips - AM29F800BT. They are not CFI compliant.
Autsch. OK, that's a different story then.
Best regards, Stefan
Most of cfi_flash is probably usable for a non-cfi flash part.
The cfi detection etc. will not work but perhaps if we preset the interface settings from board configuration and do a jedec probe and setup some of the timing based on jedec probe we might be able to use the cfi flash driver for non-cfi flash as well. This should eliminate more custom board drivers. Someone else also was asking if cfi flash driver is able to handle a cfi flash and non-cfi flash at the same time. Perhaps we can handle that as well.
This week, I might be able to come up with such an extension patch. I do not have such an environment to test but with someone taking some time doing testing and providing feedback, I can manage to do this.
Best regards, Tolunay