PIIX flashing woes with SST29EE010

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Wed Apr 3 20:11:38 EST 2002


"Jeremy Jackson" <jerj at coplanar.net> writes:

> (crossposted)
> FYI,
> 
> A problem I was having that *appeared* to be a problem with
> getting writes to the flash chip, wasn't
> 
> It turns out that SST's datasheet for SST29EE010 is incorrect.
> It turns out that the part I have *doesn't* respond to "new" style
> ID mode entry sequence, as indicated in the manual.
> It only responds to the "old" AA 55 80 AA 55 60 sequence.
> 
> I should have a generic PIIX map driver for MTD soon now.


So does jedec_probe work for you or do you need to patch it?

Eric




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