[U-Boot-Users] Atmel DataFlash hooks.

[Haavard Skinnemoen]

On 1/30/07, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> 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 ...

Ah, how come there's no "mmc read" and "mmc write"?

Btw, flash isn't entirely excluded as nand flash seems to use the same
interface.

> > 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 :-)

Yeah, of course. I really meant storage devices that aren't actually
behaving like physical memory.

Haavard