Yoni Levin wrote:
> Hi , I have EN29LV640H flash (http://www.eonsdi.com/pdf/EN29LV640.pdf)
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> On my mpc83xx board.
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> How can I write data to flash from linux.?
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> I guess it done with mtd , there is an example somewhere?
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> Thanks.
>
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I know nothing specific about your board or flash, but MTD is the
proper system for handling flash.
You need an mtd driver for your board - it is possible something
already exists, but if not you need to write it.
That driver may be extremely simple - if your boards flash system if
not very complex.
Some of the issues are ?
Is your flash partitioned - are there multiple regaions of flash
that each serve different purposes - such as a boot loader, a kernel, an
initrd and separately a file system - or even more than one file system.
Is your flash chip recognized by Linux (likely)
Are there special conditions for reading/writing flash on your board
- i.e. do you have to enable special voltages or protection bits - board
specific protection not chips specific,
Does your board "window" the flash such that only part of it is in
the CPU's memory space at one time.
Does your board have some odd quicks for accessing flash - like
requiring a 32 bit read to get a 16bit value ?
All of these are handled by the mtd driver
If as an example you have a very standard CFI flash chip, that has
no windowing, no special read/write enables, is always fully in the CPU
memory space at the same place,
and all the flash is going to be used for a single filesystem with
no reserved blocks, bootloaders etc.
The mtd driver could be trivial, there might even be something that
can just be used as is.
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