[coreboot] PATCH: Add Spansion S25FL016A to flashrom

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> [080125 02:17]:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 01:53:00PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > This is unrelated to your patch, but I don't like that we list all
> > the IDs as defines in flash.h just to put that define in the same
> > place in flashchips.c. 
> > 
> > Can't we just put the ID directly into the array in flashchips.c
> > and rather add another string for the vendor name?
> 
> #define ID is well tested but I'm not adamant in any way. You're
> basically asking for less information in source and more at run
> time. I like more info at run time but I still think it would be
> nice to have IDs in the code.

Not really less information in the source. Just a single place for that
information. flash.h is the only place where the VENDOR_ID defines are
defined and the array in flashchips.c is the only place where they are
used. 

In fact i think it would add information if we replace the VENDOR_ID
defines with strings and drop the DEVICE_ID defines completely.

 {"W29C011",     WINBOND_ID,     W_29C011,       128, 128, ...}

should rather read

 {"Winbond", "W29C011", 0xda, 0xc1, 128, 128, ...}

and we suddenly know the vendor of that chip. gcc will make sure we only
store "Winbond" once in the binary.

> I was also thinking that it would/should be simple to tell flashrom
> about these flash chip parameters at run time so as to not need a
> rebuild with as-yet unsupported flash.

yes, this would be really neat.

> Also, I'll patch away the vendor check for -m so that it would be
> sufficient to say -m m57sli as long as no two vendors have boards
> with identical names. (but -m vend:prod will still always work)

sounds good.

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