Intel NOR flash(P30) query

Josh Boyer jdub at us.ibm.com
Thu Aug 18 18:43:21 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 14:14 -0700, Todd Poynor wrote:
> Ralph Siemsen wrote:
> > Todd Poynor wrote:
> > 
> >> By the way, if anybody has mtd working on the new P30 chips it would 
> >> be good to know; I haven't seen a system with these chips yet.  They 
> >> are CFI 1.4, and some changes for 1.4 were added by Nicolas recently 
> >> to support M18 "Sibley" chips, but not sure if those changes are 
> >> required for P-series chips.  Thankis,
> > 
> > 
> > Are these changes merged into mainline kernel, or only in MTD CVS?  I 
> > may be in a position to test this soon-ish, as we are looking for a 
> > replacement for the now obsoleted J/K strataflash parts and seem to be 
> > headed towards the P30's...
> 
> Pretty sure linux-mtd-only, these came in during the settle down period 
> for 2.6.13 rc's.  The CFI 1.3-based code probably works after a quick 
> adjustment of a revision level check (to ignore new fields at end of 
> vendor-specific extended query table), if you want to try kernel.org, 
> but testing linux-mtd is always better for us here.  Thanks,

For what it's worth, I just changed the checks for version 3 of the
query table to allow a version 4 in the cfi_cmdset_0001.c driver and it
seemed to be working.  I haven't had a chance to test out Nicolas'
changes, but it should work just fine.

josh





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