[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Where does U-Boot's CFI driver check for top/bottom boot?

Tolunay Orkun listmember at orkun.us
Tue Nov 7 01:51:04 CET 2006


timur at freescale.com wrote:
> From: Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com>
> 
> This patch adds support for the reversed geometry data in some AMD flash
> chips.
> 
> I'm not proud of this patch, so I'm posting it for review only.  I know it
> works on the my board that was the problem, but I have no idea if it will
> break any other board.  I'm sure this code could be improved a lot.

NAK. It will break any bottom boot AMD flash. I have reviewed Linux MTD 
driver and the coder had nice things to say about AMD regarding this 
matter (!).

Anyway, I will get proper patch to you to try tonight or tomorrow. I do 
not have a board with AMD flash myself.

Tolunay




More information about the U-Boot mailing list