[U-Boot] CFI flash broken for 8-bit bus
Rogan Dawes
rogan at dawes.za.net
Wed Mar 30 10:01:42 CEST 2011
On 2011/03/26 8:32 AM, Aaron Williams wrote:
> I am still doing some testing and just added a fix today so that if a flash
> chip that supports both 8 and 16-bits is on an 8-bit bus the interface is set
> to 8-bits. I'll try and get patches out next week.
>
> So far it's working fairly well on all of our boards, most of which have an 8-
> bit bus but one has a 16-bit bus. I had to change all of the defined addresses
> for AMD parts and calculate the 16 and 32-bit addresses by applying a mask.
>
> The CFI code *should* work if there's an 8-bit part on a 16-bit bus, but it
> probably will not support two 8-bit parts in parallel. That should be doable
> with some work.
>
> -Aaron
Hi Aaron,
I'm looking forward to seeing your patches. With any luck, they'll also
work on my board, and a nasty hack can go away. :-)
Regards,
Rogan
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