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19 years ago

How to add second flash to MTD

I am using a board with 2 16 MB CFI flashes. Flash 1 at 0x0 and Flash at 0x02000000. uClinux detects flash 1 and does not detect flash 2. I am using microtronix map where i see, It sends dat...
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19 years ago

I looked into the MTD driver thoroughly. Its actually dumb. It does no use the CFI table to get the actual size and boundary of the flash. It blindly uses the macros defined. So i changed the memory map and placed all the flashes in sequence. Changed the flash size from 16 to 32 MB and it just works.

Simple work around.

Thanks for your support.