[U-Boot-Users] Atmel DataFlash hooks.

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <1defaf580701291628s572e1092re30ea906140e2a30 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> Maybe it would be better to create a different set of commands for
> manipulating any kind of raw storage (including flash) and let the
> memory commands deal with memory.

Exclude flash here, and we already have  such  an  interface:
"<bus> read ..." and "<bus> write", for example "eeprom read" or
"ide read" or "usb read" or ...

> Exactly. It's just absurd to pretend removable storage devices reside
> in physical memory.

Not per se. We could want to support removable  memory  modules  (hot
swap RAM - now that would be fun :-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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