Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:39:50 +0000 From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Duane <aduane@juniper.net> Cc: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/cfi NOR flash driver Message-ID: <47C03036.4040409@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47C01F1B.3020107@FreeBSD.org> References: <0FCFCF6165E968449991746EB91D614D010315DA@antipi.jnpr.net> <47C01F1B.3020107@FreeBSD.org>
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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.
cheers
BMS
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