[RFC] refactoring MTD cmdset ops, jedec_probe, and cfi_probe

Nicolas Pitre nico at cam.org
Tue Jul 13 12:52:13 EDT 2004


On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Dan Post wrote:

> I don't know how deep you plan on getting into the driver, but there are some
> things to take into consideration when you refactor...  L18 has multiple
> hardware "partitions"--you can read one section and be writing the other
> section at the same time, essentially.  i.e. for a 32MiB chip you have 16
> state machines, each for 2MiB of the chip.

I committed support for that a while ago already.  SMP and preemption safe 
too.  Anything you think might be missing (besides the crude probing code
that certainly could benefit from more work)?


Nicolas





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