From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boris Brezillon Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 13:55:48 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 00/11] SF: Migrate to Linux SPI NOR framework In-Reply-To: <20181204122659.14720-1-vigneshr@ti.com> References: <20181204122659.14720-1-vigneshr@ti.com> Message-ID: <20181204135548.640503ce@bbrezillon> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 17:56:48 +0530 Vignesh R wrote: > U-Boot SPI NOR support (sf layer) is quite outdated as it does not > support 4 byte addressing opcodes, SFDP table parsing and different types of > quad mode enable sequences. Many newer flashes no longer support BANK > registers used by sf layer to a access >16MB space. > Also, many SPI controllers have special MMIO interfaces which provide > accelerated read/write access but require knowledge of flash parameters > to make use of it. Recent spi-mem layer provides a way to support such > flashes but sf layer isn't using that. > This patch series syncs SPI NOR framework from Linux v4.19. It also adds > spi-mem support on top. > So, we gain 4byte addressing support and SFDP support. This makes > migrating to U-Boot MTD framework easier. Glad to see that happen sooner than I had expected. Looks like the patch series is in a good shape already, and I'm happy to see the u-boot spi-nor layer being based on the Linux one. Good job, and thanks again for working on that! Boris