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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] SPI flash writing
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:51:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201203142051.09517.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120315000227.GA13363@bill-the-cat>

On Wednesday 14 March 2012 20:02:27 Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:31:02PM +0100, Falauto, Gerlando wrote:
> > Can't the same command also be used for burning something *other than*
> > u-boot (e.g. a kernel, config section, or something like that)? So the
> > size of the flash *does matter*, doesn't it?
> 
> How about using mtdparts which I think will tell you when you're going
> to write something larger than the defined partition?  If it doesn't,
> that would be a handy thing to add (and be a general feature too).

i was about to suggest this :).  unfortunately, in order to make that work, i 
think the spi flash code needs to be migrated to the mtd layers ?
-mike
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-13 18:25 [U-Boot] SPI flash writing Gerlando Falauto
2012-03-13 20:11 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-13 20:17   ` Jason Cooper
2012-03-13 20:35     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-13 21:31       ` Falauto, Gerlando
2012-03-14  2:16         ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-14  6:44           ` Gerlando Falauto
2012-03-15  0:50             ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-15  0:02         ` Tom Rini
2012-03-15  0:51           ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2012-03-14  2:18 ` Simon Glass
2012-03-14  6:58   ` Gerlando Falauto
2012-04-03 14:34 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] cmd_sf: add size checking to spi flash commands Gerlando Falauto
2012-04-03 19:31   ` Mike Frysinger
2012-07-21 17:29   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] " Mike Frysinger
2012-04-03 15:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] SPI flash update command Gerlando Falauto
2012-04-04  6:40   ` Valentin Longchamp
2012-04-03 15:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] cmd_sf: let "sf update" erase last sector as a whole Gerlando Falauto
2012-04-04  0:28   ` Simon Glass
2012-04-03 15:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] cmd_sf: "sf update" preserve the final part of the last sector Gerlando Falauto
2012-04-04  0:33   ` Simon Glass

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