[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 23/27] x86: crownbay: Add SPI flash support

[Bin Meng]

Hi Jagan,

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Jagan Teki <jagannadh.teki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 December 2014 at 18:35, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Crown Bay board has an SST25VF016B flash connected to the Tunnel
>> Creek processor SPI controller used as the BIOS media where U-Boot
>> is stored. Enable this flash support.
>
> Is this necessary to enable flash at BIOS media?

Yes, so that we can use 'sf probe/erase/read/write' command from U-Boot shell.

> How about other flash media's, is this specific to x86 cpu to store
> u-boot always in
> spi flash.

Do you mean NOR/NAND? Modern x86 boards always have the SPI flash as
its BIOS media. Normally there is no NOR/NAND flash on x86 boards.

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Regards,
Bin