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Re: flash driver on excalibur board
- From: Nick Garnett <nickg at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: yrodguez at iuma dot ulpgc dot es
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 23 May 2005 10:21:05 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] flash driver on excalibur board
- References: <20050523101406.s4r61dmdussw0s8w@webmail.iuma.ulpgc.es>
yrodguez@iuma.ulpgc.es writes:
> hi,
> i have a doubt. Why is necessary a flash driver on Excalibur board??. I thought
> the EBI into the stripe translate AHB transactions to flash transactions.
The EBI only allows you to access the flash as a memory device. If you
want to reprogram it, or erase it, then you must submit commands to
it. This is what the flash driver does.
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Nick Garnett eCos Kernel Architect
http://www.ecoscentric.com The eCos and RedBoot experts
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