Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: mtd: spi-nor: add sections about flash additions and testing

[Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>]

Hi,


On Thu, Nov 23 2023, Tudor Ambarus wrote:

> Add sections about how to propose a new flash addition and about the
> minimum testing requirements.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/driver-api/mtd/spi-nor.rst | 189 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 189 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/spi-nor.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/spi-nor.rst
> index c22f8c0f7950..cc8e81e09544 100644
> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/spi-nor.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/spi-nor.rst
> @@ -63,3 +63,192 @@ The main API is spi_nor_scan(). Before you call the hook, a driver should
>  initialize the necessary fields for spi_nor{}. Please see
>  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c for detail. Please also refer to spi-fsl-qspi.c
>  when you want to write a new driver for a SPI NOR controller.
[...]
> +4/ Use `mtd-utils <https://git.infradead.org/mtd-utils.git>`__
> +and verify that erase, read and page program operations work fine.
> +
> +a/ Generate a 2 MB file::
> +
> +    root@1:~# dd if=/dev/urandom of=./spi_test bs=1M count=2
> +    2+0 records in
> +    2+0 records out
> +    2097152 bytes (2.1 MB, 2.0 MiB) copied, 0.848566 s, 2.5 MB/s
> +
> +b/ Verify erase::
> +
> +    root@1:~# mtd_debug write /dev/mtd1 0 2097152 spi_test
> +    Copied 2097152 bytes from spi_test to address 0x00000000 in flash

Perhaps mention that the 2 MiB region should already be erased.
Otherwise some flashes might refuse the writes (like the ones with ECC
-- Cypress S28 family comes to mind). Experienced engineers should know
this already but it might trip up some beginners.

Looks good otherwise. Thanks for working on this.

Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>

> +
> +    root@1:~# mtd_debug erase /dev/mtd1 0 2097152
> +    Erased 2097152 bytes from address 0x00000000 in flash
> +
> +    root@1:~# mtd_debug read /dev/mtd1 0 2097152 spi_read
> +    Copied 2097152 bytes from address 0x00000000 in flash to spi_read
> +
> +    root@1:~# hexdump -C spi_read
> +    00000000  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  |................|
> +    *
> +    00200000
> +
[...]

-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav