cfi, cfid — driver for Common Flash Interface (CFI) NOR flash
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Description
The cfi device driver provides a management interface to NOR flash devices supporting the Common Flash
Interface (CFI) specification. Its companion device cfid provides a geom(4) disk interface to the
device.
Special support for features of the Intel StrataFlash line are available with the CFI_SUPPORT_STRATAFLASH
kernel option. Additional support for write-once bits to switch part of Intel StrataFlash devices to
read-only can be enabled by the CFI_ARMEDANDDANGEROUS kernel option.
History
The cfi device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.
Name
cfi, cfid — driver for Common Flash Interface (CFI) NOR flash
See Also
led(4)
Synopsis
devicecfidevicecfidoptionsCFI_SUPPORT_STRATAFLASHoptionsCFI_ARMEDANDDANGEROUS
In /boot/device.hints:
hint.cfi.0.at="nexus0"hint.cfi.0.maddr=0x74000000hint.cfi.0.msize=0x4000000
In DTS file:
flash@74000000{compatible= "cfi-flash";
reg=<0x740000000x4000000>;};