MTD NOR write issue for files greater than a few hundred bytes

2013-03-04 Thread Holmes, Michael A (Mike)
All - repost since this ended up on the end of another thread., The issue I have is as follows. When writing to the MTD on NOR in Linux for a file of more than a few bytes, it fails with a MTD software timeout. Writing upto 100 bytes are fine, in this test when I jumped to 300 it failed. I

MTD NOR write issue for files greater than a few hundred bytes

2013-03-01 Thread Holmes, Michael A (Mike)
All, The issue I have is as follows. When writing to the MTD on NOR in Linux for a file of more than a few bytes, it fails with a MTD software timeout. Writing upto 100 bytes are fine, in this test when I jumped to 300 it failed. I also proved that the small writes do get written; I wrote zer

RE: Can request_firmware be called from a platform_driver ?

2012-04-19 Thread Holmes, Michael A (Mike)
-Original Message- From: Dave Hylands [mailto:dhyla...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:13 PM To: Holmes, Michael A (Mike) Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: Re: Can request_firmware be called from a platform_driver ? Hi Mike, On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:42 AM

RE: Can request_firmware be called from a platform_driver ?

2012-04-19 Thread Holmes, Michael A (Mike)
-Original Message- From: Dave Hylands [mailto:dhyla...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:07 PM To: Holmes, Michael A (Mike) Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: Re: Can request_firmware be called from a platform_driver ? HI Mike, On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:24 PM

RE: Can request_firmware be called from a platform_driver ?

2012-04-18 Thread Holmes, Michael A (Mike)
-Original Message- From: Dave Hylands [mailto:dhyla...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 3:15 PM To: Holmes, Michael A (Mike) Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: Re: Can request_firmware be called from a platform_driver ? Hi Mike, On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:07 AM

Can request_firmware be called from a platform_driver ?

2012-04-18 Thread Holmes, Michael A (Mike)
Hi I have a fully working system to which I want to add the request firmware mechanism to an existing platform driver I have working. I instrumented mdev in busybox 1.5.1 and in firmware_class.c 2.6.35 so that I could figure this out. What I see with firmware_request() is that the kernel makes