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Subject: Re: /dev/cfi NOR flash driver
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            "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@freebsd.org> writes:
: Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
: > Andrew Duane wrote:
: >> I have the NOR flash driver that Bill Paul wrote for 6.x, and have been
: >> getting it going on our MIPS-based boards. One major missing piece is
: >> all the GEOM stuff for making it behave as a disk drive to mount
: >> filesystems on.
: >>
: >> Is this really missing, or did whoever grabbed it for our 6.1 port just
: >> get too early a version? If it is missing, is this something that's
: >> worth back-offering to the FreeBSD community?  
: >
: > I haven't seen this cfi driver of which you speak, can you please 
: > point me at it?
: 
: I see that this diff:
:     http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel/e500.diff
: 
: contains this CFI code under a 3-clause BSD license. It would be good if 
: it were available in a more consumable format. This CFI support is much 
: needed.

It is in //depot/projects/e500/sys/dev/cfi right now.

Warner