[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] mtd: cqspi: Simplify indirect write code

Vignesh R vigneshr at ti.com
Fri Apr 29 08:03:21 CEST 2016



On 04/28/2016 04:06 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> The indirect write code is buggy pile of nastiness which fails horribly
> when the system runs fast enough to saturate the controller. The failure
> results in some pages (256B) not being written to the flash. This can be
> observed on systems which run with Dcache enabled and L2 cache enabled,
> like the Altera SoCFPGA.
> 
> This patch replaces the whole unmaintainable indirect write implementation
> with the one from upcoming Linux CQSPI driver, which went through multiple
> rounds of thorough review and testing. While this makes the patch look
> terrifying and violates all best-practices of software development, all
> the patch does is it plucks out duplicate ad-hoc code distributed across
> the driver and replaces it with more compact code doing exactly the same
> thing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust at denx.de>
> Cc: Chin Liang See <clsee at altera.com>
> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen at opensource.altera.com>
> Cc: Jagan Teki <jteki at openedev.com>
> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel at denx.de>
> Cc: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> Cc: Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com>
> ---

Tested on K2G EVM that has Cadence QSPI controller and s25fl512s
Spansion flash
For both the patches:

Tested-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com>



-- 
Regards
Vignesh


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