[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/5] nand util: read/write: accept unaligned length
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Sep 9 22:55:46 CEST 2010
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:03:28 -0500
Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> The underlying code in nand_base.c already supports non-page-aligned reads
> and writes, but the block-skipping wrapper code did not.
>
> With block skipping, an unaligned start address is not useful since you
> really want to be starting at the beginning of a partition -- or at least
> that's where you want to start checking for blocks to skip, but we don't
> (yet) support that. So we still require the start address to be aligned.
>
> An unaligned length, though, is useful for passing $filesize to the
> read/write command, and handling it does not complicate block skipping.
>
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
Applied patches 1-5 to u-boot-nand-flash next
-Scott
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