Support for Intel strataflash.

Tue Jul 19 12:30:05 EDT 2005

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:26, jbi130 at yahoo.com wrote:
> I recently receive a PPC8555 evaluation board with 8 MB Intel
> strataflash ROM.  I'm using 2.6.12 and am trying to get this setup as
> an MTD device for use with JFFS2.
> 
> On boot all I see is:
> physmap flash device: 800000 at ff800000
> 
> (the flash is at physical address 0xff800000).
> 
> I also had to enable 'Support for ROM chips in bus mapping' for this
> physmap to take place.
> 
> I'm assuming that the CFI probe isn't properly detecting this chip.
> Does that mean that it isn't fully supported?  I use similar options
> on a similar board that uses AMD flash and it works fine.
> 
In the RAM/ROM/FLash chip driver section, did you select
Detect flash chips by CFI probe
and
Support for Intel/Sharp flash chip ?

JP Francois