[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 00/27] SPI-NAND support

Jagan Teki
2018-08-03T12:08:33Z

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 3:20 PM, Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jagan, Tom,
>>
>> Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote on Wed, 1 Aug 2018
>> 10:18:21 +0200:
>>
>>> During the last months, Boris Brezillon shared his work to support
>>> serial flashes within Linux. First, he delivered (and merged) a new
>>> layer called spi-mem. He also initiated in Linux MTD subsystem the move
>>> of all 'raw' NAND related code to a raw/ subdirectory, adding at the
>>> same time a NAND core that would be shared with all NAND devices. Then,
>>> he contributed a generic SPI-NAND driver, making use of this NAND core,
>>> as well as some vendor code to drive a few chips.
>>>
>>> On top of this work, I added an 'mtd' U-Boot command to handle all sort
>>> of MTD devices. This should become the default command instead of having
>>> one per flash flavor ('sf', 'nand', 'spi-nand' ?).
>>>
>>> The series has been tested on an Ocelot board PCB123 (VSC7514),
>>> featuring a Macronix SPI NAND chip.
>>>
>>> TL;DR: the series contains:
>>> - A few patches from Linux to resynchronize some areas of the MTD layer.
>>> - Various fixes and re-organization of the MTD subsystem.
>>> - The introduction of the SPI-mem interface.
>>> - The addition of the generic SPI-NAND driver (and its bindings).
>>> - Several SPI NAND chip drivers (Macronix, Micron, Winbond).
>>> - A new 'mtd' command.
>>> - Support for spi-nand devices in mtdparts.
>>>
>>> To test your SPI-NAND device with U-Boot simply follow these lines:
>>>
>>> > setenv mtdparts mtdparts=spi-nand0:1m(foo),-(bar)
>>> > setenv mtdids spi-nand0=spi-nand0
>>> > mtdparts # show the spi-nand device partitions
>>> > ubi part bar # create a static UBI volume in the bar partition
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> MiquÃ¨l
>>>
>>> Changes since v5:
>>> -----------------
>>> * Included Boris fixup about the build issues.
>>> * Added Rb/Ab tags from Jagan on patchs 20/21.
>>
>> I can't see a pull request flow on U-Boot ML, I suppose you use a
>> different mean for that purpose.
>>
>> Jagan, is this version OK? Is it part of your PR?
>
> Travis is going on [1], will send PR once all fine.
>
> [1] https://travis-ci.org/openedev/u-boot-amarula/builds/411596788

There are some build issues, not quite sure whether it relates. please
look into it.

[2] https://travis-ci.org/openedev/u-boot-amarula/jobs/411596814
[3] https://travis-ci.org/openedev/u-boot-amarula/jobs/411596815