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

Jagan Teki jagannadh.teki at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 08:25:43 CET 2014


On 18 December 2014 at 12:48, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Ok.

Reviewed-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jagannadh.teki at gmail.com>

thanks!
-- 
Jagan.


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