[U-Boot-Users] Flash Programming Time

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <F6726C3E89A64840A5E10310E342A38F01BE953E at xchback01.back.harting.intra> you wrote:
>
> i upgraded my Board to the Spansion 128Mbit S29GL128 Mirrorbit Chip.
> This chip is specified with about 2 minutes programming time by use of
> the internal 16 word write buffer.
> With U-Boot 1.1.4 standard algorithms for AMD AM29LV128M i stopped about
> ten times more for programming the whole chip.

What exactly do you mean by "standard algorithms" - that would be the
CFI driver. Are you really using this? Did you set
CFG_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE in your board config file?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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