Jerry Van Baren wrote: > Wolfgang Wegner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> we have an update protocol that normally relies on data being >> received while the previous block is written to flash.
[snip] > My 2c: Overlapping data transfer with flash erase/write operations can > be beneficial as it can reduce the programming time substantially. > (Erase is less beneficial than write since erases don't happen as often > and take a relatively long time, so the overlap optimization savings is > a smaller percentage of the total erase time - Amdahl's Law.) By the way, what sort of benefit do you see? What is your load time with and without the non-blocking changes? [snip] >> Regards, >> Wolfgang Thanks, gvb _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
