[flashrom] [RFC] Add .reset to struct flashchip?

Maciej Pijanka maciej.pijanka at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 23:04:41 CET 2009


On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

> We have more than one chip which gets horribly confused by probe
> sequences for other chips.
> 
> Sending a reset command to the detected chip (and sleeping a bit) before
> performing any read/write/erase action could fix a number of problems
> we're seeing right now.
> This could be achieved by adding a .reset function to struct flashchip.
> 
> Thoughts?

Any ideas/approximations how much it will lengthen probe sequence? 
(ie, send detect then reset-with-wait to each probed chip)

But its a good idea, and i think we at least once were discussing that
on irc already. 

Maciej

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