Erasing more than one sector at a time?
Stephane Laroche
stephane.laroche at colubris.com
Tue Aug 1 12:07:44 EDT 2000
Obviously, my mistake. I didn't realize I had to have the erase size be a
multiple of a sector size. Sometimes, I just can't read code properly (an
it wasn't even 3 AM).
Thanks,
-Stephane
David Woodhouse wrote:
> stephane.laroche at colubris.com said:
> > I'm wondering why the parameter validation at the start of those
> > function specifically prohibits erasing more than one sector. Is this
> > because the interface is defined this way or is it an oversight?
>
> Unless I'm smoking crack, the CFI command set code _does_ support erases
> longer than one erase block. The three checks which could cause it to
> return EINVAL are:
> 1. start address must be erase-block-aligned
> 2. length needs to be a multiple of erase block size.
> 3. start + length must not exceed the _total_ size of the device.
>
> The DiskOnChip code is different, but that's been/being fixed - depending
> on whether the patch has hit the CVS tree yet or not.
>
> --
> dwmw2
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