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Re: Problem with Flash drivers, RedBoot, and Flash high in thememory map


Paul Fine wrote:
> 
> I am porting the Flash drivers to the Motorola MPC8260 Voyager Advanced
> Development Board.  This board puts the Flash in the last 8M of the 32 bit
> memory map.  I have run into trouble getting the fis commands to work due
> to the fact that many of the functions to manipulate the flash use as the
> address of the end of the Flash
> 
> end_addr = Flash_start_addr + length(Flash)
> 
> In my case, the end_addr wraps around so the value is 0x0, so any compares
> to see if my working address is greater than the end_addr always are true.
> 
> I am now going through the code to find all the places where I need to
> subtract 1 from my end_addr and change the compares from "<" to "<=".

I think that's fine.

> Has anyone else encountered this issue, or am I the first one to use Flash
> at the high end of the memory map, or am I missing a switch, CDL option, or
> something else obvious?

You're probably the first.

> In a somewhat related issue, the Sharp Flash memory that is on the board
> supports locking of the Flash blocks.  The way it works is that you can
> individually lock a 256K block, but unlocking affects all 32 blocks.  In
> order to use locking, I will implement the unlock function as a three step
> process:
> 
> 1)  Query Flash to determine which blocks are locked.
> 2)  If the block I want to unlock is locked, unlock all blocks (its the
> only choice I have)
> 3)  Go back and relock the blocks that were originally locked.
> 
> Does the Intel implementation of this Flash standard implement individual
> block unlocking?

I don't believe so from a glance at
http://developer.intel.com/design/flcomp/datashts/29058013.pdf

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