Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754715Ab0KRCQG (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:16:06 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45459 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754625Ab0KRCQF (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:16:05 -0500 Message-ID: <4CE48C3A.2050506@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:15:22 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Fedora/3.1.6-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Chou CC: lkml , Baruch Siach , Andrew Morton , Indan Zupancic , Greg KH , Alex Gershgorin , Alan Cox , Jiri Slaby , Nios2 development list Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] drivers/misc: Altera active serial implementation References: <4CE373BC.30805@wytron.com.tw> <4CE42457.8090001@zytor.com> <4CE48C2E.5080502@wytron.com.tw> In-Reply-To: <4CE48C2E.5080502@wytron.com.tw> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 903 Lines: 25 On 11/17/2010 06:15 PM, Thomas Chou wrote: > > EPCS16 = M25P16 > EPCS64 = M25P64 > > Yes, EPCS is ONLY serial flash. The Altera EPCS controller is only SPI > controller. It is well-known on Altera wiki and Altera forum. > > You may use any stock SPI flash to replace EPCS as long as the access > time met. Though Altera flash programming utility supports only limited > brands, more SPI flash can be programmed using u-boot or Linux MTD. We > often boot right out of SPI/EPCS, as it saves cost and space. > > There is no difference between Altera and Xilinx in this aspect, except > for their marketing approach. > OK, that's rather funny. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/