[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 00/27] SPI-NAND support

[Miquel Raynal]

Hi Jagan,

Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com> wrote on Fri, 3 Aug 2018
17:38:33 +0530:

> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 3:20 PM, Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com> wrote:  
> >> Hi Jagan, Tom,
> >>
> >> Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com> wrote on Wed,  1 Aug 2018
> >> 10:18:21 +0200:
> >>  
> >>> During the last months, Boris Brezillon shared his work to support
> >>> serial flashes within Linux. First, he delivered (and merged) a new
> >>> layer called spi-mem. He also initiated in Linux MTD subsystem the move
> >>> of all 'raw' NAND related code to a raw/ subdirectory, adding at the
> >>> same time a NAND core that would be shared with all NAND devices. Then,
> >>> he contributed a generic SPI-NAND driver, making use of this NAND core,
> >>> as well as some vendor code to drive a few chips.
> >>>
> >>> On top of this work, I added an 'mtd' U-Boot command to handle all sort
> >>> of MTD devices. This should become the default command instead of having
> >>> one per flash flavor ('sf', 'nand', 'spi-nand' ?).
> >>>
> >>> The series has been tested on an Ocelot board PCB123 (VSC7514),
> >>> featuring a Macronix SPI NAND chip.
> >>>
> >>> TL;DR: the series contains:
> >>> - A few patches from Linux to resynchronize some areas of the MTD layer.
> >>> - Various fixes and re-organization of the MTD subsystem.
> >>> - The introduction of the SPI-mem interface.
> >>> - The addition of the generic SPI-NAND driver (and its bindings).
> >>> - Several SPI NAND chip drivers (Macronix, Micron, Winbond).
> >>> - A new 'mtd' command.
> >>> - Support for spi-nand devices in mtdparts.
> >>>
> >>> To test your SPI-NAND device with U-Boot simply follow these lines:
> >>>  
> >>> > setenv mtdparts mtdparts=spi-nand0:1m(foo),-(bar)
> >>> > setenv mtdids spi-nand0=spi-nand0
> >>> > mtdparts             # show the spi-nand device partitions
> >>> > ubi part bar         # create a static UBI volume in the bar partition  
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Miquèl
> >>>
> >>> Changes since v5:
> >>> -----------------
> >>> * Included Boris fixup about the build issues.
> >>> * Added Rb/Ab tags from Jagan on patchs 20/21.  
> >>
> >> I can't see a pull request flow on U-Boot ML, I suppose you use a
> >> different mean for that purpose.
> >>
> >> Jagan, is this version OK? Is it part of your PR?  
> >
> > Travis is going on [1], will send PR once all fine.
> >
> > [1] https://travis-ci.org/openedev/u-boot-amarula/builds/411596788  
> 
> There are some build issues, not quite sure whether it relates. please
> look into it.

Thanks for the reports.

> 
> [2] https://travis-ci.org/openedev/u-boot-amarula/jobs/411596814
> [3] https://travis-ci.org/openedev/u-boot-amarula/jobs/411596815

Boris supposedly fixed all the build issues related to my changes (I
don't think the "missing interrupt parent" in a DTS file is related),
please pull his branch [1].

The fixes are under the form of fixups if you wanna check them.
Otherwise you can just 'rebase -i --autosquash' to automatically squash
them with the commit introducing the regression.

[1] https://travis-ci.org/openedev/u-boot-amarula/jobs/411596814


Thanks,
Miquèl

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