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

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Tue Nov 7 19:16:39 CET 2006


Hi Tolunay,

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 19:01, Tolunay Orkun wrote:
> Questions for the maintainers:
>
> 1) I have some new variables for man_id, dev_id, cfi_version introduced by
> this patch (actually man_id is currently not used so could be removed). I
> can kept these local to the function for now or I can add them to the info
> structure along with ext_addr (to easily locate the Vendor Extended Query
> Structure in flash). What do you think?
>
> In the minimum displaying man_id, dev_id, cfi_version when executing
> "flinfo" command could be useful for diagnostic purposes. We might need to
> use them to tweak the behavior of some other functionality in the future as
> well.

Yes, I definitely think it's useful to display this ID information (or even 
better a real manufacturer/device string) in the "flinfo" command. So my vote 
is to extend the struct.

> 2) There are some outdated comments at the beginning of the cfi_flash.c.
> The modification history is not up to date and todo list stuff is mostly
> addressed over time. Since the actual history is already is the git, I
> propose to get rid of modification history and todo list from the comments.

ACK.

Thanks for helping out here.

Best regards,
Stefan




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