[LinuxBIOS] [RFC] [PATCH] ST M29F040
Leon Woestenberg
leonw at mailcan.com
Fri Feb 24 14:26:38 CET 2006
Hello all,
Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Leon Woestenberg <leonw at mailcan.com> [060224 13:25]:
>
>> Sure, I do, for both the AMD and ST part.
>>
>> But I do not have the time to fully cross-reference it against all
>> timing specs though.
>>
>
> That part is uncritical. Make sure the block layout is the same. There
> are different parts that have a "boot block" in the top (T) or bottom
> (b) of the address range.
>
> When you test flashing on your system and it works, everything except
> the block sizes will be ok.
>
>
I checked and can confirm that both parts use eight uniform erase blocks
of 64kByte each, from the datasheets.
These parts have no boot blocks BTW.
With this, I think my patch is OK for inclusion.
Regards, Leon.
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