[U-Boot] [PATCH V5 1/2] MTD/SPI: introduce table driven probing
Mike Frysinger
vapier at gentoo.org
Mon Oct 11 10:17:01 CEST 2010
On Monday, October 11, 2010 03:56:26 Reinhard Meyer wrote:
> Dear Mike Frysinger,
>
> > On Tuesday, October 05, 2010 10:56:39 Reinhard Meyer wrote:
> >> + /*
> >> + * count the number of continuation bytes, but
> >> + * leave at least 3 bytes to the end of the buffer untouched
> >> + */
> >> + for (shift = 0, idp = idbuf;
> >> + shift < (sizeof(idbuf) - 3) && *idp == 0x7f;
> >> + shift++, idp++)
> >> + ;
> >> +
> >> + /* search the table for matches in shift and id */
> >> + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(flashes); i++) {
> >> + if (flashes[i].shift == shift && flashes[i].idcode == *idp) {
> >> + /* we have a match, call probe */
> >> + flash = flashes[i].probe(spi, idp);
> >> + if (flash)
> >> + break;
> >> + }
> >>
> >> }
> >
> > thinking about this some more, i see two problems. (1) we've been
> > providing 4 bytes to probe funcs (like the spansion), so 3 is too small.
> > (2) all of the probe devices today expect to get the whole idcode
> > buffer. so if we're going to change this API, we need to fix all the
> > probe funcs too. but that is a lot of changes to roll into one commit,
> > so let's first focus on converting to a table without changing any probe
> > semantics.
>
> NONE of the existing functions work with expansion, so they all get the
> unshifted, full ID buffer.
err, right. was thinking it also shifted off the manu id byte and not just
the continuation bytes.
i'll tweak the patch i posted and pull in your ramtron patch.
> If you provide the unshifted buffer to the function, the function should
> get the shift amount as well. Otherwise the function will again have look
> how many 0x7e's to skip....
not really. the probe funcs already know the layout of the idcode, so
starting at a constant offset of 3 is the same as starting at 1.
-mike
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