[U-Boot-Users] [RFC] Complex MAPPING support on CFI driver

[Rui Sousa]

Hi,

To support the flash one of our boards (no integrated in U-Boot) I need to 
implement something similar to Linux MTD complex mappings option in the CFI 
driver. In my case I have a NOR flash chip with an address line connected to 
a GPIO pin. The GPIO pin needs to be set correctly at each access to the 
flash.

What I wanted to know:
Is  someone else already working on a solution?
Would such a feature have a chance of being integrated in U-boot?

My plan was:
1. Add a new CFG_FLASH_COMPLEX_MAPPING option to U-boot.
2. Create map structure to contain functions pointers to flash read/write 
functions.
3. Modify flash_info_t structure and add a pointer to map structure (if 
CFG_FLASH_COMPLEX_MAPPING is defined).
4. Add generic map_read(), map_write() functions to CFI driver.
5. Modify CFI driver to access flash using map_read()/map_write() functions.
6. If CFG_FLASH_COMPLEX_MAPPING is not defined the map_read()/map_write()
are simple inline functions that access memory directly.
7. If CFG_FLASH_COMPLEX_MAPPING is defined it's up to the board specific code 
to initialize the map structure pointer in flash_info_t and the generic 
map_read()/map_write() functions will call board_map_read()/board_map_write() 
(through a function pointer).


Unfortunately this only takes care of writting operations. Support for read 
would mean further extensive modifications (introduce some flash_read() 
function and use it from cp, md, jffs2, ... commands).


Thanks,
Rui