Re: [U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] DATAFLASH DRIVER

2009-01-08 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
Ulf Samuelsson wrote: ons 2009-01-07 klockan 21:56 +0100 skrev Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD: Hi, The AT91 arch use a at45 driver design to be show as a parallel flash but it's a spi flash. Haavard add a new spi flash framework which support the dataflash so

Re: [U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] DATAFLASH DRIVER

2009-01-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 08 January 2009 03:21:24 Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: Ulf Samuelsson wrote: 6) Support partitions for bootstrap environemnt u-boot kernel filesystem in the boot dataflash. additional dataflash should have other partitions. We should add a

Re: [U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] DATAFLASH DRIVER

2009-01-08 Thread Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
I agree with Haavard The whole storage concept is really not working when storage becomes larger than the SDRAM. How do you download an 128 MB image over the network to a machine with 64 MB SDRAM. - Major pain... You need to be able to TFTP to flash directly if you want to have an

Re: [U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] DATAFLASH DRIVER

2009-01-08 Thread Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
On 06:04 Thu 08 Jan , Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2009 03:21:24 Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: Ulf Samuelsson wrote: 6) Support partitions for bootstrap environemnt u-boot kernel filesystem in the boot dataflash. additional dataflash

[U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] DATAFLASH DRIVER

2009-01-07 Thread Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
Hi, The AT91 arch use a at45 driver design to be show as a parallel flash but it's a spi flash. Haavard add a new spi flash framework which support the dataflash so the current driver is mark as *depracated* and plan to be remove New board and cpu must

Re: [U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] DATAFLASH DRIVER

2009-01-07 Thread Ulf Samuelsson
ons 2009-01-07 klockan 21:56 +0100 skrev Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD: Hi, The AT91 arch use a at45 driver design to be show as a parallel flash but it's a spi flash. Haavard add a new spi flash framework which support the dataflash so the current driver is