[U-Boot] flash erasing: len alignment

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Mike,

In message <200812110537.04572.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 11 December 2008 05:22:49 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > 	erase 40000000 +1
> 
> when was this notation added ?  i'm not familiar with it ... but until 
> recently, i was living with u-boot-1.1.6 ...

Then you have that code:

...
Changes for U-Boot 1.1.3:
======================================================================
 
* Add new argument format for flash commands to allow for usage like
  "erase $(addr) +$(filesize)", i. e. a size argument can be used and
  U-Boot will automaticially find the end of the corresponding sector.
...

> and any tips on which flash systems are known to support this syntax ?  i can 
> look at fixing the ones that i use that dont use this syntax ...

I know it's working on NOR flash.

I am pretty sure that it doesn't work that way on NAND yet.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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