Re: [coreboot] flashrom: Can't mmap memory

[ron minnich]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> ron minnich wrote:
> > I doubt the flash chips themselves know or care.
>
> They do. Look at how any LPC/FWH chip does block erase. Which block
> to erase depends on the address relative start of chip that is used
> in the block erase command.

relative to the start of the chip yes. But the chip itself could be
physically addressed at, e.g., 0x8000000, and all the programming
would be fine.

The only issue I've had with physical chip address was on the sc520,
where the put a bunch of registers in the middle of the flash address
space.

thanks

ron