[U-Boot-Users] flash memory access

[Reinhard Meyer]

Hello,

it is not particularly helpful if you ask others for help and give
misleading and/or false information. The link you provided leads to an Atmel
4 MBIT chip (=512 KBytes), which indeed can only be erased in whole
(optionally excluding a small boot region which IS too small to hold
U-Boot).

This Chip has neither 32MB nor 256 Sectors at 128K each...

After using up 128 KBytes or so for U-Boot, what do you intend to do with
the Rest of 384 KBytes?? Put in a LinuX Kernel?? That won't fit at all!

Are you really sure THAT old chip is on the board? Would not make any sense
for a newer design...

Regards Reinhard

----- Original Messages (Snipped) -----
From: "Paul McAvoy" <paulmcav at queda.net>
To: <u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net>

> I was using the reference of 256 * 128K sectors from some other demo sorce
> code that came with the board.  But after looking at the datasheet for the
> device:

>
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?family_id=624&family_name
=Flash+Memory&part_id=1761

> > > > I have an Atmel chip, 32Megbyts, 256 * 128K sectors.