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