[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 1/2] mtd: cqspi: Simplify indirect write code
Stefan Roese
sr at denx.de
Wed May 4 11:00:28 CEST 2016
On 03.05.2016 19:25, 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>
> ---
> V2: Handle non-4-byte aligned transfers
Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
Tested-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
Thanks,
Stefan
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