Resolve a regression when using newish automagic "write_image"
modes, by always padding to the end of affected sectors.
Also document some issues associated with those automagic options,
in the User's Guide and also some related code comments.
We might need similar padding at the *beginning* of some sectors,
but this is a minimalist fix for the problems which have currently
been reported (plus doc updates).
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Much to my surprise, I observed a "flash erase_address ..."
command erasing data which I said should not be erased.
The issue turns out to be generic NOR flash code which was
silently, and rather dangerously, morphing partial-sector
references into unrequested whole-sector ones.
This patch removes that low-level morphing. If desired, it
can and should be done in higher level code. (We might need
to fix some stuff in the GDB server code.)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Splits the exec mode commands out of flash.c into the flash/nor/ files.
The routines used by these high-level commands are moved into nor/core.c,
with their internal declarations placed in nor/imp.h.
Fixes distribution of <flash/nor/core.h> header.
The newly moved flash TCL routines access the internals of the module
too much. Fix the layering issues by adding new core NOR flash APIs:
<flash/nor/core.h>:
- flash_driver_find_by_name() - self-descriptive
<flash/nor/imp.h>:
- flash_bank_add() - encapsulates adding banks to bank list
- flash_bank_list() - encapsulates retreiving bank list
This allows the externs in flash/nor/imp.h to be removed, and
these mechanisms may now be re-used by other flash module code.
