[U-Boot] framework for serial flash

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear ashish priyadarshi,

In message <fb24d2790911102234x4d210e10mdd9d551541120dc0 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> We have a special "Serial flash controller" which was put into the standard
> flash
> framework of uboot (common/cmd_flash.c). Commands like 'cp', 'erase' could
> be
> used for operation over serial flash.

What do you mean by "Serial flash controller"? Some storage device
similar to NAND or SPI Flash? This would not fit, then.

> Since we felt "Serial flash controller" resembles SPI flash framework, and
> hence
> decided to move it there. Problem is that this "Serial flash controller" is
> also not
> fitting in SPI framework because of its nature.

So you already learned that your serial flash is not a type of memory,
but a storage device. You cannot use the memory interface as used for
NOR flash for it.

> How to handle such situations, is there any other framework or we need to
> introduce
> our own commands? We are using "u-boot-2009.08".

That's difficult to impossible to answer - you don't provide any
information what exact sort of device you have or why it would (not)
fit into the SPI flash code.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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