compatible with the Common Flash Interface, but will use the common
CFI-targetted flash drivers for any chips which are identified which
are in fact compatible in all but the probe method. This actually
- covers most AMD/Fujitsu-compatible chips and also non-CFI
- Intel chips.
+ covers most AMD/Fujitsu-compatible chips, and will shortly cover also
+ non-CFI Intel chips (that code is in MTD CVS and should shortly be sent
+ for inclusion in Linus' tree)
config MTD_GEN_PROBE
tristate
+ select OBSOLETE_INTERMODULE
config MTD_CFI_ADV_OPTIONS
bool "Flash chip driver advanced configuration options"
provides support for one of those command sets, used on chips
including the AMD Am29LV320.
+config MTD_CFI_AMDSTD_RETRY
+ int "Retry failed commands (erase/program)"
+ depends on MTD_CFI_AMDSTD
+ default "0"
+ help
+ Some chips, when attached to a shared bus, don't properly filter
+ bus traffic that is destined to other devices. This broken
+ behavior causes erase and program sequences to be aborted when
+ the sequences are mixed with traffic for other devices.
+
+ SST49LF040 (and related) chips are know to be broken.
+
+config MTD_CFI_AMDSTD_RETRY_MAX
+ int "Max retries of failed commands (erase/program)"
+ depends on MTD_CFI_AMDSTD_RETRY
+ default "0"
+ help
+ If you have an SST49LF040 (or related chip) then this value should
+ be set to at least 1. This can also be adjusted at driver load
+ time with the retry_cmd_max module parameter.
+
config MTD_CFI_STAA
tristate "Support for ST (Advanced Architecture) flash chips"
depends on MTD_GEN_PROBE
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