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Date:      Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:39:50 +0000
From:      "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrew Duane <aduane@juniper.net>
Cc:        freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/cfi NOR flash driver
Message-ID:  <47C03036.4040409@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <47C01F1B.3020107@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <0FCFCF6165E968449991746EB91D614D010315DA@antipi.jnpr.net> <47C01F1B.3020107@FreeBSD.org>

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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.

cheers
BMS



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