[U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] DATAFLASH DRIVER

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 06:04 Thu 08 Jan     , Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 08 January 2009 03:21:24 Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> > Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> > > 6) Support partitions for
> > > 	bootstrap
> > > 	environemnt
> > > 	u-boot
> > > 	kernel
> > > 	filesystem
> > >    in the boot dataflash.
> > >    additional dataflash should have other partitions.
> >
> > We should add a partitioning layer on top of the current interface.
> >
> > And even better solution would be to introduce a common flash interface
> > for NOR, NAND, SPI, etc. flash and add a partitioning layer on top of
> > that.
> 
> rather than reinvent the wheel, just support redboot partitioning scheme.  but 
> yeah, i dont think it makes much sense to add partitioning support to each 
> flash layer and turn around and unify it all.  take the common layer approach 
> first.
during my work on the nslu2 I'm preparing a part to support redboot
partitioning scheme

Best Regards,
J.