On Tuesday, June 08, 2010 08:24:33 Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 18:52:03 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i have to ask ... what exactly is the advantage of the dataflash > > driver over the common spi flash drivers ? ive looked a bit and cant > > pick anything out. better to just scuttle the entire code base imo > > and unify consumers. > > I don't know the history of both drivers, but indeed it seems that the > AT91-custom dataflash driver should be replaced by the corresponding > SPI flash driver. I'll dig into this and see what I can do.
speaking historically, the dataflash code absolutely has its place. it existed long before the SPI flash framework. but i'm looking forward only now. > However, I only have a Calao USB-A9263 board and an Atmel AT91SAM9261EK > board here, so I won't be able to test on all Atmel evaluation boards. i think the first step would be to convert the boards we can and leave a #warning for the rest that the dataflash code is being killed off. then after some time, if no one has fixed the remainders, we do our best to convert them. -mike
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