Re: MTD with non-power-of-2 page size

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Hi Sascha

Thank you for the hint. I now have running code with the non-power-of-2 page size. Shall I try and generate/submit a patch for this? The code may be marginally slower in the power-of-2 case than the original, but I defy anyone to notice if they are using spi boot!

Regards
Dave

On 19/08/15 15:20, Sascha Hauer wrote:
Hi Dave,

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:21:00PM +0100, Dave Kitchen wrote:

I have just started to work with barebox on an Atmel at91sam9g45 processor.
The board has an Atmel AT45DB161 dataflash configured as 528-byte page size.
I find that eg saveenv command does not run as the page erase fails
with EINVAL. On tracing this is fired from the page size and offset
correction code [mtd/core,c mtd_erase_align()] which uses bit
masking to align the size and offset. Unfortunately bit-masking does
not work with non-power-of-2 pages. Has anyone else addressed this
problem?

The 'trivial' exercise of replacing the bit masks by modulo [%]
operator does not succeed as the compiler I am using (gcc!) does not
support long-long divmod.

You could use do_div here which returns the remainder. Also see the
mtd_div_by_eb() and mtd_mod_by_eb() functions which may be what you are
looking for.

Sascha


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