> I think the "fast" in "fast synchronous" gives it away :-) Yes, I suppose it does. > I'm using Spansion MirrorBit S29GL128N, which reads at about 0.6 MByte/s. I think you should get more like an order of magnitude higher.... Get an expert to look at your timings in the bootloader. Make sure things are cached too. ioremap_cached()... > Not because they're good, but because that's what the board I'm coding > for has on it. I presume they were cheap and familiar to the board > designers. (There is 32MB of RAM to play with after all.) > > So start a sequence of Busybox processes from a shell script is noticable, > if it reads from NOR each time. > > Oh, and it's a 166MHz ARM, so it's quite capable of decompressing > faster than the NOR can deliver. Depends on how you are measuring it. You ought to be able to get at least 2 orders of magnitude higher read speeds with a good sync Flash. Some of the newer stuff is even faster. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
