[U-Boot-Users] Atmel DataFlash hooks.

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Mon Jan 29 11:49:58 CET 2007


Hi Ulf,

On Saturday 27 January 2007 00:01, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> > Then I apologies and ask for forgiveness.  I want to see some of the
> > crazy side cases removed from the generic routines (and replaced with
> > generic hooks where appropriate).
>
> Why?
> Have you done any cost benefit analysis to the rest of the community?
> What will the world gain by such a change?

More readable and less error-prone code.

> > I should have couched it more in
> > those terms when I first brought it up.
> >
> >
> >From my point of view, dataflash is the main case, and
>
> everything else is a side case.
> I do not see any benefit in changing the MMI for dataflash.
> I rather see changes which will make dataflash more similar
> in use to std parallell flash.
> In my u-boot I can compare dataflash to SDRAM etc.

You can do this with NAND flash too. You just have to copy it to SDRAM before 
comparing.

Best regards,
Stefan




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