[U-Boot-Users] Atmel DataFlash hooks.

[Andreas Schweigstill]

Hello!

Wolfgang Denk schrieb:
> ... and to me this sounds is if it would fit better  in  the  set  of
> flash  related  commands  (protect  etc.)  than  any  other  existing
> interface.

The flash related commands could work on an extension of the block
device layer. IDE/ATA drives also seem to have a means for provision of
drive geometry data to the file system driver or application (e.g. fdisk
under DOS/Windows/Linux). (Yes, I am just joking... :-) )

There is something what I really don't like about U-Boot's current
Dataflash implementation: after copying data to Dataflash using the
"cp.b" command the source data has been corrupted; it has been swapped
with the old contents of the Dataflash. The reason for this behaviour
can be found in the AT91F_SpiWrite() function (at45.c) which programs
the PDC to use the SPI transmit buffer address also as receive address.
Has anybody found out if it is possible to ignore the read data?

With best regards
Andreas Scheigstill

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