[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 00/76] mtd: Add SPI-NOR core support

[Jagan Teki]

Hi York,

On 27 February 2016 at 02:14, york sun <york.sun at nxp.com> wrote:
> On 02/22/2016 10:18 AM, Jagan Teki wrote:
>> Hi York,
>>
>> On 15 February 2016 at 02:16, Jagan Teki <jteki at openedev.com> wrote:
>>> Compared to previous patch series this series adds spi-nor
>>> core with spi-nor controller drivers are of "mtd uclass"
>>>
>>> This is whole series for all spi-nor related changes, and while
>>> series tested on spansion spi-nor chip.
>>>
>>> Know issue:
>>> - arch/x86/lib/mrccache.c uses dm_spi_flash_ops, this need to fix.
>>>
>>> Why this framework:
>>>
>>> Some of the SPI device drivers at drivers/spi not a real
>>> spi controllers, Unlike normal/generic SPI controllers they
>>> operates only with SPI-NOR flash devices. these were technically
>>> termed as SPI-NOR controllers, Ex: drivers/spi/fsl_qspi.c
>>>
>>> The problem with these were resides at drivers/spi is entire
>>> SPI layer becomes SPI-NOR flash oriented which is absolutely
>>> a wrong indication where SPI layer getting effected more with
>>> flash operations - So this SPI-NOR core will resolve this issue
>>> by separating all SPI-NOR flash operations from spi layer and
>>> creats a generic layer called SPI-NOR core which can be used to
>>> interact SPI-NOR to SPI driver interface layer and the SPI-NOR
>>> controller driver. The idea is taken from Linux spi-nor framework.
>>>
>>> Before SPI-NOR:
>>>
>>> -----------------------
>>>         cmd/sf.c
>>> -----------------------
>>>         spi_flash.c
>>> -----------------------
>>>         sf_probe.c
>>> -----------------------
>>>         spi-uclass
>>> -----------------------
>>>         spi drivers
>>> -----------------------
>>>         SPI NOR chip
>>> -----------------------
>>>
>>> After SPI-NOR:
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>         cmd/sf.c
>>> ------------------------------
>>>         spi-nor.c
>>> -------------------------------
>>> m25p80.c        spi nor drivers
>>> -------------------------------
>>> spi-uclass      SPI NOR chip
>>> -------------------------------
>>> spi drivers
>>> -------------------------------
>>> SPI NOR chip
>>> -------------------------------
>>>
>>> SPI-NOR with MTD:
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>         cmd/sf.c
>>> ------------------------------
>>>         MTD core
>>> ------------------------------
>>>         spi-nor.c
>>> -------------------------------
>>> m25p80.c        spi nor drivers
>>> -------------------------------
>>> spi-uclass      SPI NOR chip
>>> -------------------------------
>>> spi drivers
>>> -------------------------------
>>> SPI NOR chip
>>> -------------------------------
>>>
>>> drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c: spi-nor core
>>> drivers/mtd/spi-nor/m25p80.c: mtd uclass driver
>>> which is an interface layer b/w spi-nor core drivers/spi
>>> drivers/mtd/spi-nor/fsl_qspi.c: spi-nor controller driver(mtd uclass)
>>>
>>> Changes for v6:
>>> - Fixed git bisectable issues, with buildman.
>>> - Fixed spi-nor compilation issues
>>> - newly designed changes.
>>>
>>> Changes for v5:
>>> - newly designed changes
>>>
>>> Testing:
>>> $ git clone git://git.denx.de/u-boot-spi.git
>>> $ cd u-boot-spi
>>> $ git checkout -b spi-nor origin/spi-nor
>>>
>>> Jagan Teki (76):
>>>   mtd: Add m25p80 driver
>>>   mtd: Add Kconfig entry for MTD_M25P80
>>>   mtd: Add SPI-NOR core support
>>>   doc: device-tree-bindings: jedec,spi-nor
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: Add Kconfig entry for MTD_SPI_NOR
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: Add kconfig for MTD_SPI_NOR_USE_4K_SECTORS
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: Add MTD support
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: Add spi_nor support in m25p80
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: Add dm spi-nor probing
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: Add spi_flash_probe for mtd-dm-spi-nor
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: Add spi_flash_free for mtd-dm-spi-nor
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: m25p80: Add spi_nor support for non-dm
>>>   sf: Rename erase_size to erasesize
>>>   sf: Use erasesize instead of sector_size
>>>   sf: Use uint64_t for flash->size
>>>   spi_flash: Use mtd_info operation for SPI-NOR
>>>   spi_flash: Use spi_flash_t instead of struct spi_flash
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: Move spi_read_then_write to spi layer
>>>   spi: Rename spi_read_then_write to spi_write_then_read
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: Rename SPI_FLASH_BAR to SPI_NOR_BAR
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: Add Kconfig entry for SPI_NOR_BAR
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: Copy spl files from drivers/mtd/spi
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: spl: Follow ascending order of include headers
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: fsl_espi_spl: Use mtd_info
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: spi_spl_load: Use mtd_info
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: Add flash vendor Kconfig entries
>>>   arm: zynq: Kconfig: Select MTD uclass
>>>   arm: zynq: Kconfig: Drop DM_SPI_FLASH
>>>   defconfigs: zynq_microzed: Drop CONFIG_SPI_FLASH
>>>   defconfig: zynq_microzed: Enable CONFIG_MTD_M25P80
>>>   defconfig: zynq_microzed: Enable CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NOR
>>>   spl: Add CONFIG_SPL_SPI_NOR_SUPPORT
>>>   configs: zynq: Use CONFIG_SPL_SPI_NOR_SUPPORT
>>>   configs: zynq: Use CONFIG_SPL_MTD_SUPPORT
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: Copy sf_dataflash
>>>   mtd: dataflash: Remove unneeded spi data
>>>   mtd: dataflash: Move flash id detection into jedec_probe
>>>   mtd: dataflash: Fix add_dataflash return logic
>>>   mtd: dataflash: Add UCLASS_MTD support
>>>   mtd: dataflash: Use spi_write_then_read
>>>   mtd: dataflash: Drop sf_internal.h
>>>   mtd: dataflash: Minor cleanups
>>>   mtd: Rename sf_dataflash.c to mtd_dataflash.c
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: Add Kconfig entry for mtd_dataflash
>>>   mtd: dataflash: Add MTD_DATAFLASH_WRITE_VERIFY
>>>   mtd: spi-nor: Add kconfig MTD_DATAFLASH_WRITE_VERIFY
>>>   configs: ls1021aqds: Drop DM_SPI_FLASH and DATAFLASH
>>>   defconfig: ls1021aqds_qspi: Enable SPI-NOR
>>>   defconfig: ls1021aqds_qspi: Enable CONFIG_MTD_DATAFLASH
>>
>> Can you pls- test the dataflash changes? use u-boot-spi/spi-nor
>>
> Jagan,
>
> I am getting there. Will test sf probe/read/write and probably boot on selected
> platforms. Is there any specific platform/test in your mind?

Yes, these tests OK. and if possible please verify 'sf protect' as well.

thanks!
-- 
Jagan.