How to exploit STS pin of Strata Flash

[llandre]

> > I have a question about STS pin of Strata Flash.
> > I'd like to implement a function in the low-level map driver
> > in order to exploit the STS pin to read the ready/busy
> > status (NAND-like).
> > How should I hack the code? It seems there is
> > no <board>_device_ready or something like that ...
>
>Why?

To avoid the bus accesses to detect the end of erase/write operations.
This wastes a lot of bus bandwidth.


>How?  Connect it to a irq line?

Is this supported by MTD? How to enable this feature in the low-level driver?
I had a look at the existing drivers but it neems no one uses interrupt ...


Regards,

llandre

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