/dev/cfi NOR flash driver

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Feb 23, 2008, at 6:39 AM, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:

> Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
>> Andrew Duane wrote:
>>> I have the NOR flash driver that Bill Paul wrote for 6.x, and have  
>>> been
>>> getting it going on our MIPS-based boards. One major missing piece  
>>> is
>>> all the GEOM stuff for making it behave as a disk drive to mount
>>> filesystems on.
>>>
>>> Is this really missing, or did whoever grabbed it for our 6.1 port  
>>> just
>>> get too early a version? If it is missing, is this something that's
>>> worth back-offering to the FreeBSD community?
>>
>> I haven't seen this cfi driver of which you speak, can you please  
>> point me at it?
>
> I see that this diff:
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel/e500.diff
>
> contains this CFI code under a 3-clause BSD license. It would be  
> good if it were available in a more consumable format. This CFI  
> support is much needed.

We should have this integrated with CVS shortly.

What do you mean with consumable format?

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