[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] spi: Add progress percentage and write speed to `sf update`

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On 12/19/2012 05:20:07 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> > Dear Simon Glass,
> >
> > In message <1348878482-1730-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> you  
> wrote:
> >> From: James Miller <jamesmiller@chromium.org>
> >>
> >> Output a progress update only at most 10 times per second, to avoid
> >> saturating (and waiting on) the console. Make the summary line
> >> to fit on a single line. Make sure that cursor sits at the end of
> >> each update line instead of the beginning.
> >>
> >> Sample output:
> >>
> >> SF: Detected W25Q32 with page size 4 KiB, total 4 MiB
> >> Update SPI
> >> 1331200 bytes written, 2863104 bytes skipped in 21.912s, speed  
> 199728 B/s
> >
> > I dislike making commands more verbose then needed, or helpful.  Of
> > course the latter may be considered a matter of taste, but first of
> > all you also add code size here for questionable benefit.
> >
> > I object against this patch:
> >
> > 1) I cannot see what is so special in the "sf" command that it needs
> >    such handling, while commands accessing NOR or NAND flash or
> >    SDCard or any other storage devices don't.
> >
> >    If there is an agreement that this feature should be added, then  
> it
> >    should be done in a general way that can be used everywhere.
> >
> >    [Note that I doubt that "if".]
> 
> Hmmm I suppose that is a good point. The main issue with SPI flash is
> that it is extremely slow, and writing a few MB can take a minute or
> so. The 'sf update' command was intended to do a smart update, and the
> progress is useful for that. Other storage types are not so bad.

NOR can be pretty slow as well -- and it does have a progress indicator  
in U-Boot (albeit a simpler one).

NAND has a progress meter on erase, and for larger transfers it could  
probably use one on read/write as well.

-Scott