[coreboot] [patch] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

Ward Vandewege ward at gnu.org
Tue Mar 18 22:17:59 CET 2008


On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:10:41PM +0100, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:45 -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> > 
> > ... except for those of us who've soldered a socket onto a rev1 board
> > of
> > course! I often use larger chips on a v1. 
> 
> And, I presume the 512K limit doesn't apply for them...

That's correct. It works at least with 1MB chips; I have not tried larger.

> > So, this should really be spi-only. 
> 
> Yes, but how? Having a separate V2-board target afterall? Or Config.lb
> files specific for V1/V2 boards, where the V1 uses rom_stream
> (CONFIG_ROM_PAYLOAD=1) and V2 uses piorom_stream
> (CONFIG_PIOROM_PAYLOAD=1)?
> Which is the least ugly....

Hrm. I'd like to avoid splitting up the targets, but perhaps we have to.
Carl-Daniel, thoughts?

Thanks,
Ward.

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




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