[PATCH v2] cfi_flash: Fix detection of 8-bit bus flash devices via address shift

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Fri Feb 26 08:51:49 CET 2021


From: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jagannadha.sutradharudu-teki at xilinx.com>

We had a problem detecting 8/16bit flash devices connected only via
8bits to the SoC for quite a while. Commit 239cb9d9
[mtd: cfi_flash: Fix CFI flash driver for 8-bit bus support] finally
fixed this 8-bit bus support. But also broke some other boards using
this cfi driver. So this patch had to be reverted.

I spotted a different, simpler approach for this 8-bit bus support
on the barebox mailing list posted by
Oleksij Rempel <bug-track at fisher-privat.net>:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/u-boot-v2/msg14687.html

Here the commit text:

"
Many cfi chips support 16 and 8 bit modes. Most important
difference is use of so called "Q15/A-1" pin. In 16bit mode this
pin is used for data IO. In 8bit mode, it is an address input
which add one more least significant bit (LSB). In this case
we should shift all adresses by one:
For example 0xaa << 1 = 0x154
"

This patch now is a port of this barebox patch to U-Boot.

Along with the change w.r.t from barebox,
Some flash chips can support multiple bus widths, override the
interface width and limit it to the port width.

Tested on 16-bit Spansion flash on sequoia.
Tested 8-bit flashes like 256M29EW, 512M29EW.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
Tested-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jaganna at xilinx.com>
Cc: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jaganna at xilinx.com>
Cc: Aaron Williams <awilliams at marvell.com>
Cc: Chandrakala Chavva <cchavva at marvell.com>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr at ti.com>
Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
Cc: Mario Six <mario.six at gdsys.cc>
Cc: York Sun <york.sun at nxp.com>
Cc: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas at gmail.com>
---
v2:
- Rebase on current mainline

I've run into problems with CFI flash on the MIPS Octeon EBB7304, where
the CFI detection did not work. While testing and digging through the
very old CFI related patches, I stumbled over this patch which fixes
the problems on the EBB7304.

I would really like to see some further testing of this patch on other
boards using CFI parallel flash though. That's why I added some
developers who did send CFI related patches in the last few years. So
please test with this patch applied if possible.

Thanks,
Stefan

 drivers/mtd/cfi_flash.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 include/flash.h         |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/cfi_flash.c b/drivers/mtd/cfi_flash.c
index b4512e3a5f..9642d7c7dc 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/cfi_flash.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/cfi_flash.c
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ flash_map(flash_info_t *info, flash_sect_t sect, uint offset)
 {
 	unsigned int byte_offset = offset * info->portwidth;
 
-	return (void *)(info->start[sect] + byte_offset);
+	return (void *)(info->start[sect] + (byte_offset << info->chip_lsb));
 }
 
 static inline void flash_unmap(flash_info_t *info, flash_sect_t sect,
@@ -1918,12 +1918,27 @@ static int __flash_detect_cfi(flash_info_t *info, struct cfi_qry *qry)
 			flash_read_cfi(info, qry, FLASH_OFFSET_CFI_RESP,
 				       sizeof(struct cfi_qry));
 			info->interface	= le16_to_cpu(qry->interface_desc);
+			/* Some flash chips can support multiple bus widths.
+			 * In this case, override the interface width and
+			 * limit it to the port width.
+			 */
+			if ((info->interface == FLASH_CFI_X8X16) &&
+					(info->portwidth == FLASH_CFI_8BIT)) {
+				debug("Overriding 16-bit interface width to"
+						" 8-bit port width\n");
+				info->interface = FLASH_CFI_X8;
+			} else if ((info->interface == FLASH_CFI_X16X32) &&
+					(info->portwidth == FLASH_CFI_16BIT)) {
+				debug("Overriding 16-bit interface width to"
+						" 16-bit port width\n");
+				info->interface = FLASH_CFI_X16;
+			}
 
 			info->cfi_offset = flash_offset_cfi[cfi_offset];
 			debug("device interface is %d\n",
 			      info->interface);
-			debug("found port %d chip %d ",
-			      info->portwidth, info->chipwidth);
+			debug("found port %d chip %d chip_lsb %d ",
+			      info->portwidth, info->chipwidth, info->chip_lsb);
 			debug("port %d bits chip %d bits\n",
 			      info->portwidth << CFI_FLASH_SHIFT_WIDTH,
 			      info->chipwidth << CFI_FLASH_SHIFT_WIDTH);
@@ -1962,9 +1977,23 @@ static int flash_detect_cfi(flash_info_t *info, struct cfi_qry *qry)
 	     info->portwidth <= FLASH_CFI_64BIT; info->portwidth <<= 1) {
 		for (info->chipwidth = FLASH_CFI_BY8;
 		     info->chipwidth <= info->portwidth;
-		     info->chipwidth <<= 1)
+		     info->chipwidth <<= 1) {
+			/*
+			 * First, try detection without shifting the addresses
+			 * for 8bit devices (16bit wide connection)
+			 */
+			info->chip_lsb = 0;
+			if (__flash_detect_cfi(info, qry))
+				return 1;
+
+			/*
+			 * Not detected, so let's try with shifting
+			 * for 8bit devices
+			 */
+			info->chip_lsb = 1;
 			if (__flash_detect_cfi(info, qry))
 				return 1;
+		}
 	}
 	debug("not found\n");
 	return 0;
diff --git a/include/flash.h b/include/flash.h
index 3bf6b22399..42b18a6047 100644
--- a/include/flash.h
+++ b/include/flash.h
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ typedef struct {
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI
 	uchar	portwidth;		/* the width of the port		*/
 	uchar	chipwidth;		/* the width of the chip		*/
+	uchar	chip_lsb;		/* extra Least Significant Bit in the */
+					/* address of chip	*/
 	ushort	buffer_size;		/* # of bytes in write buffer		*/
 	ulong	erase_blk_tout;		/* maximum block erase timeout		*/
 	ulong	write_tout;		/* maximum write timeout		*/
-- 
2.30.1



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