[PATCH v5 1/3] efi_loader: Add SPI I/O protocol support

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Dec 14 05:39:22 CET 2022


Hi Paul,

On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 at 10:50, Paul Barker <paul.barker at sancloud.com> wrote:
>
> This addition allows UEFI applications running under u-boot to access
> peripherals on SPI busses. It is based on the UEFI Platform
> Initialization (PI) Specification, Version 1.7 Errata A (April 2020).
> Only the core functionality required to discover SPI peripherals and
> communicate with them is currently implemented. Other functionality such
> as the legacy SPI controller interface and the ability to update the SPI
> peripheral object associated with a particular SPI I/O protocol object
> is currently unimplemented.
>
> The following protocols are defined:
> * EFI_SPI_CONFIGURATION_PROTOCOL
> * EFI_SPI_IO_PROTOCOL
> * EFI_LEGACY_SPI_CONTROLLER_PROTOCOL
>
> Since there are no open source implementations of these protocols to use
> as an example, educated guesses/hacks have been made in cases where the
> UEFI PI specification is unclear and these are documented in comments.
>
> This implementation has been tested on the SanCloud BBE Lite and allowed
> a UEFI test application to successfully communicate with a Micron
> Authenta flash device connected via the SPI bus.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker at sancloud.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                       |   6 +
>  configs/am335x_evm_defconfig      |   1 +
>  include/efi_api.h                 |   4 +
>  include/efi_loader.h              |   4 +
>  include/efi_spi_protocol.h        | 166 +++++++++
>  lib/efi_loader/Kconfig            |   8 +
>  lib/efi_loader/Makefile           |   1 +
>  lib/efi_loader/efi_setup.c        |   6 +
>  lib/efi_loader/efi_spi_protocol.c | 576 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/uuid.c                        |   4 +
>  10 files changed, 776 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 include/efi_spi_protocol.h
>  create mode 100644 lib/efi_loader/efi_spi_protocol.c

This should have a sandbox test as well. See test/dm/spi.c or sf.c for examples.

Regards,
Simon


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