On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Jagan Teki <jt...@openedev.com> wrote: > On 23 September 2015 at 22:21, Otavio Salvador > <otavio.salva...@ossystems.com.br> wrote: >> Hello Jagan, >> >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Jagan Teki <jt...@openedev.com> wrote: >>> All looks fine as per your patches, but probing flash from board files >>> isn't a good approach if one more board add similar approach. >>> >>> I have an idea similar to "cfi_flash" approach. >>> >>> "sf protect on off len" then based on the offset and len write the >>> protected bits and skips the sectors which are protected by showing >>> warning say "protected sectors will not be erased!" [1] >>> >>> Use the Linux approach[2] for more information, let me know for any more >>> inputs. >>> >>> [1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootCmdGroupFlash#Section_5.9.3.4. >>> [2] >>> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c?id=972e1b7b450a93589b2a4c709e68f68da059aa5c >> >> I think this is a good option however, can we include this one for >> this release and we can improve it for next? > > Do you have any defined schedule on coming release about this feature, > because right now sf has lot of pending items to tune - I'm unable add > again this on TODO list that become big task in future. > > If you have any time, please start the suggested approach I would help > at any moment.
We are adding support for a number of different SoM part numbers from Congatec and the SPI protection is required for we be able to merge the SPL and 2015.10 to be usable for them. I can commit to work in this feature for 2016.01. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
