Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 04 September 2008, Fillod Stephane wrote: >>> Is there a way for a userland application to issue non-CFI commands >>> directly to a Flash device? (This is a 2.6.18-based kernel on a AMCC >>> PPC440EPx platform.) >> I don't know whether there's specific ioctl for such purpose. >> Have you tried to read the mtd source? You may also hack the mtd >> layer to add your command. Definitely a question for >> http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/mail.html >> > > There is no ioctl command for sending arbitrary requests to the > flash, but it sounds like something that should be implemented > in the kernel, in mtdchar, depending on what the command does. > > What are you actually trying to do with those commands? >
Hi Arnd, There are some sector protection options and a user-writable one-time-programmable section that's larger than the presently implemented 8-byte area that I need to support. Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
