patch for AMD am29dl800b

David Updegraff dave at cray.com
Fri Apr 2 08:30:27 EST 2004


> Please don't reply to unrelated threads. This isn't about bad blocks and
> doesn't live with the message to which you replied.

Whoops.. me aculpa.

> 
> On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 18:01 -0600, David Updegraff wrote:
> 
>>Hi.
>>
>>I have a gadget with this amd chip on it.  Whose id and layout dfn. is 
>>not in the jedec_probe tables.  Unfortuanately, they have _SIX_ (6) 
>>erase regions.  Anyone know of a reason expanding the regions[] array to 
>>6 is a bad idea?  Or why dealing with this chip in general is a bad idea?
> 
> 
> Hmmm. And this chip really doesn't do CFI?

My attempts at that failed; and their PDF only says 'JEDEC compatible'.

> I wonder how much space we take up with this table, and if we should put
> the regions outside the table rather than inline ("ulong *regions").

.. or invent a command-line syntax; since in embedded situations one 
usually knows what one is looking for.. or has that alredy been 
discussed and discarded?

-dbu.



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