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Re: Re: Alpha release eCos NAND Flash, eCos YAFFS
- From: "Gábor Török" <tgabor84 at gmail dot com>
- To: "Andrew Lunn" <andrew at lunn dot ch>, "eCos Discuss List" <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:41:02 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: Alpha release eCos NAND Flash, eCos YAFFS
- References: <492F3B9F.8090501@cs.vu.nl> <20081130105317.GH27015@lunn.ch>
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 01:30:23AM +0100, Rutger Hofman wrote:
>> Last time I visited a conference, everybody spoke about 'Release early,
>> release often'.
>>
>> Here comes an alpha release of the eCos NAND Flash library and the eCos
>> YAFFS wrapper library (r536 of our repository).
>
> Thanks for showing us the code at this early state. I just started
> browsing through it.
>
> ... ...
>
>
> The idea of generic GPIO functions needs to be discussed in the bigger
> context. More likely these need to be HAL macros, CYG_HAL_GPIO_SET().
> We want these to be fast as generally they are just two or three
> assembly instructions. Doing a function call is too expensive in most
> cases. You also need a generic way to address pins. The AT91 var hal
> has some ideas here.
>
I think also that generic GPIO woukld be a good idea. This would
simplify writing generic drivers, etc.
Gábor
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