[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] Add 'sf update' command to do smart SPI flash update

[Simon Glass]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Friday, August 19, 2011 15:28:48 Simon Glass wrote:
>> This adds a new SPI flash command which only rewrites blocks if the
>> contents need to change. This can speed up SPI flash programming when much
>> of the data is unchanged from what is already there.
>
> looks good to me.  i'll give it a spin on a board of mine and then push into
> my sf branch.  i really should write a spi flash simulation so i could just
> test this from gdb ...

Hi Mike,

Thanks.

Funny you should say that. I rather badly need a way of testing the
higher level U-Boot code (from the commands down to where it calls
architecture/driver code). I am drafting up an email to send to the
list with some thoughts on the matter.

Regards,
Simon

> -mike
>