[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 4/4 v3] mtd: sf: Add CONFIG_SPI_N25Q256A_RESET for software-reset

Jagan Teki jagannadh.teki at gmail.com
Wed Oct 1 21:04:48 CEST 2014


On 2 October 2014 00:27, Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> wrote:
> On 01.10.2014 20:25, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, October 01, 2014 at 05:13:11 PM, Stefan Roese wrote:
>>>
>>> This is needed for the SoCFPGA booting from SPI NOR flash
>>> e.g. (N25Q256A). With these changes, the SoCrates can boot and
>>> re-boot (reset) from SPI NOR flash without any problems.
>>
>>
>> Seems like your SPI NOR reset logic is buggy. Does any of [1] apply to
>> your
>> board please?
>>
>> [1] http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/Documentation/SocBoardQspiBoot
>
>
> Yes. This seems to be that case. But I can't change it right now. So this
> "solution" with the soft-reset is better than nothing.

If this is some think that must require, any possibility to this
resetting prior to u-boot?
like preloader or in first stage boot loader or something.

I feel this is mostly a kind of hardware treat, and looks like it's
touching generic sf framework
which is not so good.

thanks!
-- 
Jagan.


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