[ECOS] flash driver on excalibur board

[Nick Garnett]

yrodguez@iuma.ulpgc.es writes:

> hi,
> i have a doubt. Why is necessary a flash driver on Excalibur board??. I thought
> the EBI into the stripe translate AHB transactions to flash transactions.

The EBI only allows you to access the flash as a memory device. If you
want to reprogram it, or erase it, then you must submit commands to
it. This is what the flash driver does.

-- 
Nick Garnett                                     eCos Kernel Architect
http://www.ecoscentric.com                The eCos and RedBoot experts


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