Re: [PATCH] MTD: Add lock/unlock operations for Atmel AT49BV6416

[Josh Boyer]

On 8/9/06, Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:41:12 +0800
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 10:28 +0200, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> > > What's the best way to do this? Unlock the flash in the
> > > board-specific mapping driver perhaps?
> >
> > That's what we used to do. If more people are emulating the Intel
> > brain damage and having chips which render the lock operation entirely
> > pointless by locking the chips at every power cycle, then I suppose we
> > ought to consider making auto-unlock a function of the chip type.
>
> It appears that Atmel has reverted this in later chips, like the
> AT49BV642D. Updated patch below, if you still want it. Please disregard
> the jedec_probe patch as I've got AT49BV6416 working in CFI mode now.
>
> This patch depends on "MTD: Convert Atmel PRI information to AMD
> format" which I just submitted, as it needs the definition
> of CFI_MFR_ATMEL.

I've added this patch to my tree.

josh
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