[PATCH V2 06/10] MIPS: lantiq: add NOR flash support

John Crispin blogic at openwrt.org
Mon Mar 7 07:25:38 EST 2011


On 07/03/11 09:58, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 17:13 +0100, John Crispin wrote:
>   
>> NOR flash is attached to the same EBU (External Bus Unit) as PCI. As described
>> in the PCI patch, the EBU is a little buggy, resulting in the upper and lower
>> 16 bit of the data on a 32 bit read are swapped. (essentially we have a addr^=2)
>>
>> To work around this we do a addr^=2 during the probe. Once probed we adapt
>> cfi->addr_unlock1 and cfi->addr_unlock2 to represent the endianess bug.
>>
>> Changes in V2
>> * handle the endianess bug inside the map code and not in the generic cfi code
>> * remove the addr swizzle patch
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Ralph Hempel <ralph.hempel at lantiq.com>
>> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
>> Cc: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck at googlemail.com>
>> Cc: linux-mips at linux-mips.org
>> Cc: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
>>     
> There are a couple checkpatch.pl warnings, would you please address them
> and resend?
>
>   
Hi,

of course.

thanks,
John



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