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Re: FIS access


On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 12:40, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Gary Thomas wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 03:33, Knud Woehler wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>this is my new patch to access the FIS from an application. I hope it's 
> >>better than the old one.
> > 
> > 
> > This looks much better.  I'm almost ready to commit it, but
> 
> Oh and I think I'd prefer it just use the existing 
> CYGACC_CALL_IF_FLASH_CFG virtual vector with different option codes. The 
> reason to use a VV is because we only want a single place to do FLASH 
> operations. CYGACC_CALL_IF_FLASH_CFG should probably just have been called 
> CYGACC_CALL_IF_FLASH_OP really - it would always be the same single entity 
> controlling the flash.

"six of one, half dozen of the other" - I like to keep functionality
separated - FCONFIG access is (in my mind) *very* different than
generic FLASH access and FIS access different still.  The fact that
they all distill to FLASH hardware access is incidental and could
even change over time.

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