[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/5] altera_qspi: show erase progress

[Marek Vasut]

On Thursday, December 24, 2015 at 04:26:57 AM, Thomas Chou wrote:
> Hi Marek,

Hi Thomas,

> On 2015年12月24日 11:02, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Thursday, December 24, 2015 at 03:50:57 AM, Thomas Chou wrote:
> >> Hi Marek,
> >> 
> >> On 2015年12月24日 09:29, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>> On Thursday, December 24, 2015 at 01:51:23 AM, Thomas Chou wrote:
> >>>> Show sector erase progress with dot and comma.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou <thomas at wytron.com.tw>
> >>>> ---
> >>> 
> >>> Shouldn't this go into common code ?
> >> 
> >> The code to print a dot is minimal. It will cost more if this go into
> >> common code.
> > 
> > But then this driver behaves in a non-standard manner AND noone benefits
> > from this functionality but this driver.
> 
> The sector erase might take very long when there are a lot of sectors to
> erase, say 12 min to 50 min for 1024 sectors on the 10m50 board. Without
> the display of progress, it will look like the board hangs.

Yeah, that I do understand and I agree this is a good idea :)

> The dotting code comes from the old cfi_flash.c. Some other parallel
> flash have this, but not spi-flash. It is trivial to add though.

Urm, altera_qspi is CFI, right ? So can we stuff this into common code or not?
Sorry if I am confused and off the mark.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut