Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message 1246387465-13156-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
From: Harald Krapfenbauer Harald.Krapfenbauer@bluetechnix.at
The current flash framework generally assumes that the flash in question is completely directly addressable. With the new weak accessor functions, that is no longer always the case. These allow us to hook up flashes whose pins are only partially directly addressable while the rest are connected to GPIOs. Since all the erase/write commands go through the
Either you or me misunderstand the purpose of these weak accessor functions.
weak accessor functions, those work transparently. But for reading from the flash, the common memory function is still used and this does not go through the weak accessor functions. So we need a dedicated command to make sure the weak accessor functions are used to do the actual reading.
Nope. This ain't working.
Either we have flash memory; then it is a mandatory requirent that we can access the flash memory using all memory accessing commands, including "cp", "md" etc. This is not the case on any devices that require additional address switching, like on processors that use things like bank switching signals in addition to the normal address lines.
Otherwise we have some form of storage device, which cannot be accessed with commands like "cp", "md", or "erase".
NAK.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk