Re: [PATCH 06/10] MIPS: lantiq: add NOR flash support

[John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>]

On 11/01/11 03:59, Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> the EBU doesn't allow unaligned read or write access thus Lantiq added
> this alignment hack directly in hardware. The addr^=2 is only needed
> during CFI probe because odd addresses are accessed. A simple solution
> is inside your patch.
>
> The spin_lock_irqsave(&ebu_lock, flags); is actually not needed
> because the EBU does access arbitration and protection already in
> hardware.
>
> Daniel
>
Hi Daniel,

thx, i will try it out later on and then merge it into v2 of the series.

John