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

Paul Barker paul.barker at sancloud.com
Wed Dec 14 10:57:27 CET 2022


On 14/12/2022 04:39, Simon Glass wrote:
> 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.

Hi Simon,

There is a test case in patch 2 of this series, is that what you're
looking for? It was split out as requested in the review of v3 of this
series.

Thanks,

-- 
Paul Barker
Principal Software Engineer
SanCloud Ltd

e: paul.barker at sancloud.com
w: https://sancloud.com/



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