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Re: AMD flash driver improvement
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Thomas Koeller <thomas dot koeller at baslerweb dot com>
- Cc: eCos patches <ecos-patches at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 10 Sep 2003 14:57:40 -0600
- Subject: Re: AMD flash driver improvement
- Organization: MLB Associates
- References: <200309102023.54106.thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com>
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 12:23, Thomas Koeller wrote:
> Here's another improvement to the am29xxxxx flash driver. It
> adds support for the 'buffered write' programming method that
> increases the programming speed by roughly a factor of four.
> As I am working with the AM29LV128 only and do not know about
> the buffered write capabilities of all the other chips supported
> by the driver (and don't have the time to find out), I
> introduced a new field in the flash descriptor struct to
> selectivly enable the feature, which I did for the AM29LV128 only.
>
> The code to determine the sector (block) base address is only
> tested for the AM29LV128, which does not have bootblocks and is
> not banked, so problems may show when enabling buffered write
> for banked or bootblock flashes.
>
> The patch also fixes the formatting of the ChangeLog entry for my
> previous patch, which was slightly odd.
>
Looks fine to me - committed.
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Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates