Dear Michael,
In message CAGVhguGjKWY+qaHmfCRSZfSRSsGG8Gep2BV6-gKx6zDCoU0obg@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
as I asked in my email... since I'm using spi-flash for the fs access, it seems I'll need to use the DM_SPI_FLASH support.
For new code, yes.
I'm using the 2017.09 version of u-boot with openembedded/poky and the 4.4 kernel
would it be worth me using a newer version of u-boot? would that give me better support of my spi-flash?
You should always go with top-of-tree from the respective mainline repositoruy for any new developments.
my board is basically an am335x_evm with an is25lp512 nor spi-flash instead of emmc.
SPI NOR is used on a zillion of boards and should work pretty well.
when I tried to turn on the dm flash support it didn't compile. just wondering if that is supported more thouroughly in newer versions of u-boot.....
sorry, I don't know. Again, here the ML is a much better reource to ask such things.
In any case you should not use JFFS2 any more; it is really, really dead code.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk