[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] spi: Add SPI NOR protection mechanism

[Stefan Roese]

Hi Fabio,

On 29.09.2015 04:45, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
>
> Many SPI flashes have protection bits (BP2, BP1 and BP0) in the
> status register that can protect selected regions of the SPI NOR.
>
> Take these bits into account when performing erase operations,
> making sure that the protected areas are skipped.
>
> Introduce the CONFIG_SF_STM_PROTECT option that can be selected
> by systems that want to protect regions of SPI NOR flash using
> the same programming model as in the ST Micro SPI NOR flashes, like
> for example the M25P32.
>
> Based on the implementation from Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
> for the Linux kernel:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/513041/
>
> Tested on a mx6qsabresd:
>
> => sf probe
> SF: Detected M25P32 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 4 MiB
> => sf protect on  0x3f0000 0x10000
> => sf erase 0x3f0000 0x10000
> offset 0x3f0000 is protected and cannot be erased
> SF: 65536 bytes @ 0x3f0000 Erased: ERROR
> => sf protect off  0x3f0000 0x10000
> => sf erase 0x3f0000 0x10000
> SF: 65536 bytes @ 0x3f0000 Erased: OK
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
> ---
>
>   README                        |  12 +++
>   common/cmd_sf.c               |  30 +++++++
>   drivers/mtd/spi/sf_internal.h |   6 --
>   drivers/mtd/spi/sf_ops.c      | 188 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   include/spi_flash.h           |  25 +++++-
>   5 files changed, 253 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index a13705a..3411ea9 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -3068,6 +3068,18 @@ CBFS (Coreboot Filesystem) support
>   		memories can be connected with a given cs line.
>   		Currently Xilinx Zynq qspi supports these type of connections.
>
> +		CONFIG_SF_STM_PROTECT
> +
> +		Enable the built-in protection mechanism provided by the
> +		BP2, BP1 and BP0 bits from the status register present
> +		on ST-Micro flashes such as M25P32. Please refer to the
> +		M25P32 datasheet to understand how to program these bits
> +		in order to protect a selected region of the SPI NOR flash.
> +		This same bit protection programming model applies to SPI
> +		NOR flashes from other manufacturers such as:
> +		- Micron M25P32
> +		- SST SST25V32B

We should not add more CONFIG_ descriptions to this README. Please
add this option via Kconfig (in drivers/mtd/spi/Kconfig) and add
its description there as well.

Thanks,
Stefan