[U-Boot-Users] [Attn: Joe Loelinger] Re: [PATCH] Fix up flash_read_uchar() to read uchar more safely in cfi_flash.c.

[Jon Loeliger]

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 00:13, Tolunay Orkun wrote: 
> I have to send this to Joe Loelinger through the list due to an 
> blacklisting issue. Direct mail bounced with the following error:
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <jdl at jdl.com>
>     (reason: 550-sender IP address 207.115.20.70 is locally blacklisted here. If you think)

Bah.  Sorry about that.

> I have to send via my ISP mail server "smtp.sbcglobal.net" even though I 
> am using orkun.us as my email. The IP is assigned by PPPoE.

I'll whitelist that address for you at home too.  Sorry.

> > I think the approach is sound except I have a few comments below.
> >
> > Meanwhile, the debugging lead me to conclude the flash_read_uchar() is 
> > not really the root cause of your problem.
> >
> > Please refer to email exchange I had with Haiying yesterday. We 
> > probably need to add "asm("sync;"); to flash_write_cmd() and/or 
> > udelay(); after reset.

Yeah, I'm just catching up on that thread now.  I agree with
folks that the sync (or delay) approach might be the real
issue at work here.  I'm waiting on that new version of the
patch as well.  I'll give that a try and see how Chris Fester
fares with it as well! :-)

Thanks,
jdl