[RFC 0/5] rockchip_sfc: add support for Rockchip SFC

Kever Yang kever.yang at rock-chips.com
Tue Jun 1 14:22:09 CEST 2021


Add Yifeng from rockchip.

Hi Chris,

     First of all, I think you should remain the origin author info in 
the signed-off.


Hi Yifeng,

     Please help to review this driver.


Thanks,

- Kever

On 2021/5/26 上午5:49, Chris Morgan wrote:
> From: Chris Morgan <macromorgan at hotmail.com>
>
> Requesting comments for a proposed patchset for adding the Rockchip
> serial flash controller to u-boot. The goal of these patches is to
> enable it for the Odroid Go Advance so that it may eventually boot
> exclusively from the SFC on mainline U-boot (I have tested this and
> it works).
>
> The specific help I need with this patch is:
>
> 1) I don't know the best way to upstream the XTX25F128B flash chip.
> This chip uses a continuation code for the manufacturer ID, however I
> cannot seem to find any way to actually read the continuation code.
> There is a risk of this driver, used as-is, to collide with another
> chip which has the same manufacturer ID with a different continuation
> code.
>
> 2) The Rockchip SFC driver itself (as it is mostly as-is from the BSP
> U-Boot sources) supports SPI NAND and chips of varying sizes, but my
> implementation only permits me to test with a single 128Mb flash chip.
> The driver itself does some checking on the bitlen in the routine
> rockchip_sfc_xfer() which is what is called for the dm_spi_ops.xfer.
> I'm not sure if there is a better way to do this. Additionally, I have
> to bit-shift the address written to the SFC as I suspect the value is
> meant to be left justified, but I never tested it further.
>
> Additionally, it might be worth mentioning but I noticed the Rockchip
> BROM will only boot the TPL/SPL off of the SFC if I write it to address
> 0x10000. This is not documented and different than the address looked
> at for SD card booting (512 * 64 = 0x8000 for SD Card booting). Also,
> like the SD card driver I can confirm that if DMA is enabled at the SPL
> stage A-TF seems to fail silently, then when Linux loads it hangs.
> There is an ifdef to force FIFO mode only in the SPL stage.
>
> Tested: Read (works)
> 	Write (works if you write to an erased sector)
> 	Erase (works)
> 	SPL Read (works if you edit the u-boot,spl-boot-order)
>
> Chris Morgan (5):
>    spi: rockchip_sfc: add support for Rockchip SFC
>    rockchip: px30: Add support for using SFC
>    rockchip: px30: add the serial flash controller
>    mtd: spi-nor-ids: Add XTX XT25F128B
>    rockchip: px30: add support for SFC for Odroid Go Advance
>
>   arch/arm/dts/px30.dtsi                     |  38 ++
>   arch/arm/dts/rk3326-odroid-go2-u-boot.dtsi |  10 +-
>   arch/arm/dts/rk3326-odroid-go2.dts         |  22 +
>   arch/arm/mach-rockchip/px30/px30.c         |  64 ++
>   drivers/mtd/spi/Kconfig                    |   6 +
>   drivers/mtd/spi/spi-nor-ids.c              |   8 +
>   drivers/spi/Kconfig                        |   8 +
>   drivers/spi/Makefile                       |   1 +
>   drivers/spi/rockchip_sfc.c                 | 652 +++++++++++++++++++++
>   9 files changed, 926 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>   create mode 100644 drivers/spi/rockchip_sfc.c
>




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