On Thursday 24 January 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
If the device is SPI flash, then why not call it like that, i. e.
spi flash info
i dont like this because of the integration it'd require with the generic spi command
Or spiflash info
to make it similar to the "nand" commands?
this sounds easy enough that i could probably do this ...
On the other hand, it might be still too shortsighted to tie this to the bus interface. For example, what about dataflash? As discussed many times before, we have similar issues with dataflash devices.
i'm not sure i follow. what do you mean by dataflash ? the atmel dataflashes ? the AT45DBxxx parts ?
I don't have a good idea how to do it, but maybe this is a chance to get a good solution for NAND, dataflash, SPI flash and who knows what else?
i can see the motivation for this, but i'm not sure if it's worth the overhead ... SPI flash is more like parallel NOR flash than NAND. there are no bad blocks, ecc, etc... with SPI flashes. -mike