point()/unpoint() questions + small cfi_cmdset_0001.c patch

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Jun 18 10:11:18 EDT 2002


joakim.tjernlund at lumentis.se said:
> Is this on your board with burst reads working? Are you using a cached
> mapping for point()? 

> Yes x 2 

As discussed on IRC -- perhaps we want to investigate using prefetch() then.

>  After a quick read I think it's NOT possible to read data without
> suspending an Erase first.

Yeah - it looks that way to me too. XIP on a writable file system really 
does seem like a silly plan, given current flash technology.

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dwmw2






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