[U-Boot-Users] Spansion flash not detected by CFI driver

[Tolunay Orkun]

Shiju wrote:
>> I have another update. THe protect/unprotect failure was happening only
>> when I was using h/w protect enable. I disabled h/w protect to see
>> whether everything else goes well. But timeout happens on write as well.
>> Below is the log message. 
>>
>> uboot> cp.b 0x80000000 0xa0000000 $(filesize)
>> Copy to Flash... Flash buffer write timeout at address a0000000 data
>> c68686c6
>> Timeout writing to Flash
>> uboot>
> After  disabling the buffered writes, write timeout doesn't happen. ALso
> protect/unprotect works well when h/w protect is enabled. Is there a
> way to use buffered writes on this flash device.

Try disabling debug outputs in CFI driver. I've seen writes do fail when 
debug output is enabled.

Tolunay