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Re: flash driver interface improvement
>
> > Hi all,
> > it appears to me that the current flash driver interface is
> > very inflexible, supporting only flash chips with uniform
> > sector layout. I'd therefore like to propose an extension that
> > I am going to describe below, and that I would volunteer to
> > implement if the ecos maintainers agree to this proposal.
>
> I don't have a comment about this specific proposal, but I have
> been thinking recently about the current limitations of the
> flash drivers. In addition to the above, the current flash driver
> layer does not support multiple flash regions and it lacks support
> for NAND flash. I am planning on adding these things in the not
> too distant future. If anyone else has other ideas about missing
> feature, I would love to hear them.
not actual feature requests but things I asked a while ago on the list
that are related to flash:
-strata and synth flash drivers and the upper layer have
more arguments in their erase_block and program_buffer functions
than the other low level drivers.Why this inconsistency?
-is any of the intel drivers preferred over the others for
further development (28F and strata both support many chips,but strata
seems to use CFI so it could work for the whole range of intel parts..)