Re: [U-Boot-Users] Where does U-Boot's CFI driver check for top/bottom boot?

5 Nov 2006


      In message 454D991C.5080602@orkun.us you wrote:
...
I will check MTD CFI driver when I have a bit of free time. I just sent 
an email to the list regarding what I learned from AMD CFI 
specifications. It looks like if we can enumerate those early top/bottom 
devices that use AMD CFI 1.0 specification, we can come up with a patch 
that can handle this case transparently. AMD specification specifies two
There once was the  idea  that  U-Boot's  internal  flash  ID's  (the
FLASH_*  definitions  in  "include/flash.h" would encode this (quote:
Odd numbers are "bottom  boot  sector"  types).  Maybe  this  can  be
reused.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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