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From: erik@dd•nec.com.au (Erik Christiansen)
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Flash on ep8248e standard motherboards
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:46:21 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070914004621.GA9022@dd.nec.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46E944BE.1010007@qstreams.com>

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:10:06AM -0400, Ben Warren wrote:
> >  
> MIRRORX16 is the correct type for Spansion GL series NOR flash. AMD spun 
> off their flash business a while ago and renamed it Spansion. If you 
> look on the datasheet you'll see that Spansion calls the GL technology 
> 'MirrorBit', and in all likelihood the device has a 16-bit data bus. The 
> AMD algorithm may work but the MIRRORX16 definitely will.

Yes, the "Flash Organisation" section of the ep8248e manual shows two
16-bit devices. (That's what seemed erroneous in the BDI2000 config file
supplied with the card. ;-)

Many thanks for putting me on the right track w.r.t. CHIPTYPE. It'll
save me trying all the wrong guesses first.

Regards,
Erik

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-14  0:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-04 18:08 Flash on ep8248e standard motherboards Alan Bennett
2007-09-12  9:10 ` Laurent Pinchart
2007-09-13  8:25 ` Erik Christiansen
2007-09-13 14:10   ` Ben Warren
2007-09-14  0:46     ` Erik Christiansen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-04 14:03 Newbie on embedded linux on PPC: error: cannot find boot.o Thomas Gerlach
2007-09-04 17:09 ` Flash on ep8248e standard motherboards Bennett, Alan

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