[flashrom] A quick hack to support AMD Family 16h SOC

Wei Hu wei at aristanetworks.com
Wed Jul 31 00:10:37 CEST 2013


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> The following timings are straight from the W25Q32BV datasheet. They may
> be completely unrealistic. Typical erase time for that chip is around 30
> seconds for a sectorwise chip erase (without overhead). The typical
> write time for that chip (using 5-byte chunks due to the short FIFO for
> SB600) would be around 600 seconds. Typical write time for that chip
> with the long Kabini FIFO would be 45 seconds.
> Add initial read time, sectorwise chip erase time, erase-verify time
> (full chip read), write time, write-verify time (full chip read) and the
> write time suddenly looks pretty reasonable.

Thanks for looking up the datasheet! I totally forgot the differences
between flash chips.




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