[U-Boot] [PATH v5 00/14] sf: Update sf framework to support all sizes of flashes

[Jagan Teki <jagannadh.teki@gmail.com>]

On 21-06-2013 20:12, Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki wrote:
> This is a v5 patch series with some modifications on previous series
> with same head "sf: Update sf framework to support all sizes of flashes"
>
> The current implementation in sf supports 3-byte address mode due to
> this up to 16MB amount of flash is able to access for those flashes
> which has an actual size of > 16MB.
>
> This series of patches is more detailed/meatured changes w.r.t the
> current sf framework in addition to changes related to support all
> sizes using bank/exnt register addr accessing support.
>
> With these new updates on sf framework, the flashes which has < 16MB
> are not effected as per as performance is concern and but the
> u-boot.bin size incrased ~460 bytes.
>
> sf update(for first 16MBytes), Changes before:
> U-Boot> sf update 0x1000000 0x0 0x1000000
> - N25Q256
>    16777216 bytes written, 0 bytes skipped in 199.72s, speed 86480 B/s
> - W25Q128BV
>    16777216 bytes written, 0 bytes skipped in 351.739s, speed 48913 B/s
> - S25FL256S_64K
>    16777216 bytes written, 0 bytes skipped in 65.659s, speed 262144 B/s
>
> sf update(for first 16MBytes), Changes after:
> U-Boot> sf update 0x1000000 0x0 0x1000000
> - N25Q256
>    16777216 bytes written, 0 bytes skipped in 198.953s, speed 86480 B/s
> - W25Q128BV
>    16777216 bytes written, 0 bytes skipped in 350.90s, speed 49200 B/s
> - S25FL256S_64K
>    16777216 bytes written, 0 bytes skipped in 66.521s, speed 262144 B/s
>
> The main aim of these changes is to not effect the current framework
> and at the same time to support the > 16Mbyte flashes, becuase of this
> I involved few flash vendor people in CC [thought that they may/mayn't
> be a mailing list members] to know their views.
>
> REQUEST FOR ALL SPI CODE CONTRIBUTORS/USERS, PLEASE TEST THESE
> CHANGES W.R.T YOUR HW IF POSSIBLE.
> Please let me know for any issues/concerns/questions.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Jagan.
>
> Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki (14):
>    sf: Add bank address register writing support
>    sf: Discover the bank addr commands
>    sf: Read flash bank addr register at probe time
>    sf: Update sf to support all sizes of flashes
>    sf: Update sf read to support all sizes of flashes
>    sf: Add bank addr code in CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_BAR
>    sf: Use spi_flash_addr() in write call
>    sf: stmicro: Add support for N25Q512
>    sf: stmicro: Add support for N25Q512A
>    sf: stmicro: Add support for N25Q1024
>    sf: stmicro: Add support for N25Q1024A
>    sf: spansion: Add support for S25FL512S_64K
>    sf: Remove spi_flash_cmd_poll_bit()
>    sf: Add flag status register polling support
>
>   README                               |   5 +
>   drivers/mtd/spi/spansion.c           |   7 ++
>   drivers/mtd/spi/spi_flash.c          | 186 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>   drivers/mtd/spi/spi_flash_internal.h |  29 +++++-
>   drivers/mtd/spi/stmicro.c            |  28 ++++++
>   include/spi_flash.h                  |  10 ++
>   6 files changed, 232 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
>

Applied to u-boot-spi/master

--
Thanks,
Jagan.