[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] flash/cfi_flash: Use virtual sector start address, not phys

[Stefan Roese]

On Monday 02 February 2009, Becky Bruce wrote:
> include/flash.h was commented to say that the address in
> flash_info->start was a physical address.  However, from u-boot's
> point of view, and looking at most flash code, it makes more
> sense for this to be a virtual address.  So I corrected the
> comment to indicate that this was a virtual address.
>
> The only flash driver that was actually treating the address
> as physical was the mtd/cfi_flash driver.  However, this code
> was using it inconsistently as it actually directly dereferenced
> the "start" element, while it used map_physmem to get a
> virtual address in other places.  I changed this driver so
> that the code which initializes the info->start field calls
> map_physmem to get a virtual address, eliminating the need for
> further map_physmem calls.  The code is now consistent.
>
> The *only* place a physical address should be used is when defining the
> flash banks list that is used to initialize the flash_info struct,
> usually found in the board config file.

Applied to cfi-flash/master. Thanks.

Best regards,
Stefan

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