bank switching

bank switching

[M8 (Servaes Joordens)]

hello linux mtd-guys,

I use the blackfin embedded uClinux environment. I want to change a 
flash chip-driver to support all four memory banks which are available. 
Right now, I have a driver which supports 1 memory bank of 2MB. I want 
to be able to use the other three memory banks also 2-4Mb, 4-6MB and 6-8MB.

Memory bank selection is done by using general io pf4 and pf5. For 
instance: when  pf4 is enabled and pf5 is disabled I am writing in the 
region 2-4MB.

What would be the correct way to change the chip driver? Do you have a 
template or tutorial on bank switching?

The driver I want to change is: cfi_cmdset_0001.c

I hope someone can help me.

regards,
Servaes Joordens





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Re: bank switching

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 17:14 +0100, M8 (Servaes Joordens) wrote:
> I use the blackfin embedded uClinux environment. I want to change a 
> flash chip-driver to support all four memory banks which are available. 
> Right now, I have a driver which supports 1 memory bank of 2MB. I want 
> to be able to use the other three memory banks also 2-4Mb, 4-6MB and 6-8MB.
> 
> Memory bank selection is done by using general io pf4 and pf5. For 
> instance: when  pf4 is enabled and pf5 is disabled I am writing in the 
> region 2-4MB.
> 
> What would be the correct way to change the chip driver? Do you have a 
> template or tutorial on bank switching?
> 
> The driver I want to change is: cfi_cmdset_0001.c

No, that's the "chip driver". What you need to provide is a "map driver"
which enables physical access (read/write cycles) to the flash device in
question.

See the MTD_COMPLEX_MAPPINGS config option, which turns simple things
like 'read word' and 'write word' into out-of-line function calls in
your map driver. And see the map drivers which do this already, like
maps/sbc_gxx.c

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Re: bank switching

[M8 (Servaes Joordens)]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 17:14 +0100, M8 (Servaes Joordens) wrote:
>   
>> I use the blackfin embedded uClinux environment. I want to change a 
>> flash chip-driver to support all four memory banks which are available. 
>> Right now, I have a driver which supports 1 memory bank of 2MB. I want 
>> to be able to use the other three memory banks also 2-4Mb, 4-6MB and 6-8MB.
>>
>> Memory bank selection is done by using general io pf4 and pf5. For 
>> instance: when  pf4 is enabled and pf5 is disabled I am writing in the 
>> region 2-4MB.
>>
>> What would be the correct way to change the chip driver? Do you have a 
>> template or tutorial on bank switching?
>>
>> The driver I want to change is: cfi_cmdset_0001.c
>>     
>
> No, that's the "chip driver". What you need to provide is a "map driver"
> which enables physical access (read/write cycles) to the flash device in
> question.
>
> See the MTD_COMPLEX_MAPPINGS config option, which turns simple things
> like 'read word' and 'write word' into out-of-line function calls in
> your map driver. And see the map drivers which do this already, like
> maps/sbc_gxx.c
>
>   
Now I enabled the MTD_COMPLEX_MAPPINGS. I changed the code in
map_funcs.c for the bank switching, but I get a problem with my ext2
partition in RAM. The RAM memory has another memory mapping (of course).
In what file should I make the changes?
I use the following files:
- mtd/cmdlinepart.c
- mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c
- mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c
- mtd/maps/uclinux.c (for the root fs in RAM)
- mtd/maps/physmap.c (for the flash_memory)
- mtd/maps/map_funcs.c

My idea is:
- I change the call to simple_map_init(xxx) in physmap.c to
my_simple_map_init(xxx)
- I add the bank-switching routines in physmap.c and link them via
my_simple_map_init(xxx)

Is this the correct way to do it?




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