[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] improved SPI flash support (restructured)

Ward Vandewege ward at gnu.org
Tue Oct 2 17:50:01 CEST 2007


On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 03:13:12PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Great! Can you ack/commit with the following changelog?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This patch aims to restructure SPI flash support in a more reasonable
> way. It introduces a generic SPI host driver for the IT8716F Super I/O
> which will enable easy SPI programming without having to care for the
> peculiarities of the SPI host.
> 
> To activate probing for the IT8716F, you have to use the gigabyte:m57sli
> mainboard override. SPI support will then use the gathered SPI host data
> to access the SPI flash.
> 
> This has been tested sucessfully by Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> on the
> GA-M57SLI v2.0, which has a MX25L4005 SPI flash part.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>

Acked-by: Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org>

And committed in r2817

Thanks,
Ward.

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Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator




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