[ECOS] Intel 28fxxx flash driver

Jonathan Larmour jlarmour@redhat.com
Wed Oct 17 14:09:00 GMT 2001


Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking at adding support for a flash chip in the 28Fxxx family and
> was looking over the existing definitions in
> devs/flash/intel/28fxxx/.../flash_28fxxx_parts.inl.
> 
> I happened to notice that the 28F320C3 entry puts the start of the boot
> block at 0x3e0000, which is 0x1f0000 in the 16-bit address, space of the
> chip. From my reading of the manual the boot block actually starts at
> address 0x1f8000 which == 0x3f0000. Is this a bug or have I
> misunderstood something? (Perhaps someones eye slipped down a line when
> they were reading the memory map table?)

Looking at the Intel docs, I agree. I'll make the change internally. If
Jesper disagrees he can always shout :-). It's probably just that no-one
ever tried to program the parameter blocks.
 
> Which brings me to my question - is this driver actually used anywhere,
> I can't find any module which uses it in the CVS tree...

It's not used in a publically released target.

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