flashdisk erase before registering driver

[Matthew J Fletcher]

Hi,

Yes i think i will have to add code to my BSP to erase all flash sectors if
required.


On 15 March 2013 14:10, Sebastian Huber
<sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>wrote:

> On 03/14/2013 05:03 PM, Matthew J Fletcher wrote:
>
>> The blank check code in am29lv160, called from rtems_disk_inititialize
>> tests if
>> a read of flash is not 0xff, the only way to set flash to that state is to
>> erase the sector, but I don't see how rtems can do that before
>> rtems_disk_initialize has not finished yet.
>>
>> I am confused why flashdisk is marking the segment as failed in
>> rtems_fdisk_recover_block_**mappings but its not attempting to call
>> rtems_fdisk_seg_erase.
>>
>>
> I think we need an operation that erases the complete device and
> re-initializes the driver data structures afterward.
>
>
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Matthew J Fletcher
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