Hi Stefan/Siva/Mugunthan/Vikas/Others
On 15 February 2016 at 02:16, Jagan Teki jteki@openedev.com wrote:
Compared to previous patch series this series adds spi-nor core with spi-nor controller drivers are of "mtd uclass"
This is whole series for all spi-nor related changes, and while series tested on spansion spi-nor chip.
Know issue:
- arch/x86/lib/mrccache.c uses dm_spi_flash_ops, this need to fix.
Why this framework:
Some of the SPI device drivers at drivers/spi not a real spi controllers, Unlike normal/generic SPI controllers they operates only with SPI-NOR flash devices. these were technically termed as SPI-NOR controllers, Ex: drivers/spi/fsl_qspi.c
The problem with these were resides at drivers/spi is entire SPI layer becomes SPI-NOR flash oriented which is absolutely a wrong indication where SPI layer getting effected more with flash operations - So this SPI-NOR core will resolve this issue by separating all SPI-NOR flash operations from spi layer and creats a generic layer called SPI-NOR core which can be used to interact SPI-NOR to SPI driver interface layer and the SPI-NOR controller driver. The idea is taken from Linux spi-nor framework.
Before SPI-NOR:
cmd/sf.c
spi_flash.c
sf_probe.c
spi-uclass
spi drivers
SPI NOR chip
After SPI-NOR:
cmd/sf.c
spi-nor.c
m25p80.c spi nor drivers
spi-uclass SPI NOR chip
spi drivers
SPI NOR chip
SPI-NOR with MTD:
cmd/sf.c
MTD core
spi-nor.c
m25p80.c spi nor drivers
spi-uclass SPI NOR chip
spi drivers
SPI NOR chip
drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c: spi-nor core drivers/mtd/spi-nor/m25p80.c: mtd uclass driver which is an interface layer b/w spi-nor core drivers/spi drivers/mtd/spi-nor/fsl_qspi.c: spi-nor controller driver(mtd uclass)
Changes for v6:
- Fixed git bisectable issues, with buildman.
- Fixed spi-nor compilation issues
- newly designed changes.
Changes for v5:
- newly designed changes
Testing: $ git clone git://git.denx.de/u-boot-spi.git $ cd u-boot-spi $ git checkout -b spi-nor origin/spi-nor
Please test this series?
thanks!