[U-Boot-Users] [RFC] CFI Driver Little-Endian write Issue

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Mon Aug 7 13:43:19 CEST 2006


Hi Yuli,

On Monday 07 August 2006 13:04, Yuli Barcohen wrote:
> Sounds like it's the (in)famous byte lanes swapping issue. It's so
> common that Linux MTD code even includes support for this. There are
> even more problematic flashes like Spansion S70GL256M which consists of
> two parts, one big-endian and another little-endian. I had to support
> the lanes swapping (and even the "mixed-endian") on many customers'
> boards. I've attached to this mail the CFI driver version which I
> use. It works well on many PowerPC boards but I've got no little-endian
> system to test it (my tree is not fully merged with official GIT right
> now so I'm not sending a patch, I can prepare one if you think the
> approach is OK).

Yes, please send a patch, so we can better see the changes to the official 
version. Thanks.

Best regards,
Stefan




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