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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-IN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-IN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>With regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-IN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Aniruddha Herekar<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText align=left style='text-align:left'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: wd@denx.de [mailto:wd@denx.de] <br>
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:34 PM<br>
To: Herekar, Aniruddha<br>
Cc: u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Regarding memory commands </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-IN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>In message
<2195AF8E2250C54D8D8A726C8AE84A3331C2C8@dbde01.ent.ti.com> you wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-IN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>> Does memory commands mm, mw, mn and tftp work
only with RAM memory and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>> not flash (nor or nand) memory?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-IN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>The commands have usually no idea what sort of
memeory (if any) is<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-IN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>attached to the addresses you pass. [Exception is cp
and - epending<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-IN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>on the configuration - tftp which recognize NOR flash
areas and use<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-IN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>flash write code then.]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>> If so are there any other commands other than <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">'</st1:PersonName>cp<st1:PersonName w:st="on">'</st1:PersonName> that
can be used to<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-IN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> write into flash (nor or nand) memory?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>cp is the only regular command to write to NOR flash.
It cannot be<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>used for NAND, though. NAND has it<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">'</st1:PersonName>s own interface, the nand command.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-IN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Wolfgang Denk<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-IN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-IN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems,
Embedded Linux<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-IN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80
Email: wd@denx.de<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-IN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Landing: a controlled mid-air collision with a planet.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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