Hi Simon,
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 4:37 AM Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Bin,
>
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 09:38, Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Simon,
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 10:14 PM Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Bin,
> > >
> > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 20:32, Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Simon,
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 10:22 AM Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 08:28, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi Vignesh,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 at 04:28, Vignesh Raghavendra <vigne...@ti.com>
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi Simon,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On 12/10/19 10:03 AM, Bin Meng wrote:
> > > > > > > > Hi Simon,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 11:08 AM Simon Glass
> > > > > > > > <s...@chromium.org> wrote:
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >> Hi Bin,
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >> On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 07:55, Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com>
> > > > > > > >> wrote:
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>> Hi Simon,
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:12 PM Simon Glass
> > > > > > > >>> <s...@chromium.org> wrote:
> > > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > > >>>> On x86 platforms the SPI flash can be mapped into memory so
> > > > > > > >>>> that the
> > > > > > > >>>> contents can be read with normal memory accesses.
> > > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > > >>>> Add a new SPI flash method to find the location of the SPI
> > > > > > > >>>> flash in
> > > > > > > >>>> memory. This differs from the existing device-tree
> > > > > > > >>>> "memory-map" mechanism
> > > > > > > >>>> in that the location can be discovered at run-time.
> > > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Whats is the usecase? Why can't spi_flash_read() be used instead?
> > > > > > > Flash + Controller driver can underneath take care of using memory
> > > > > > > mapped mode to read data from flash right while making sure that
> > > > > > > access
> > > > > > > is within valid window?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I can see spi_flash_read_dm() but it does not support returning a
> > > > > > pointer to the data, only reading it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Also I cannot find any documentation about any of this. I've been
> > > > > > looking in the doc/ directory.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I found the spi_mem.h file but it doesn't mention the meaning of the
> > > > > > in and out buffer pointers so I don't know how to use them.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is there an API missing or just comments/documentation?
> > > > >
> > > > > Apart from this I have found that the ich_spi driver does not work for
> > > > > APL since it apparently only supports 'hardware sequencing'. I did try
> > > > > getting software sequencing to work, but no dice.
> > > > >
> > > > > In addition, I found that enabling SPI flash, etc. added about 6KB of
> > > > > code!
> > > > >
> > > > > So I think it might be best to have two SPI drivers for x86 - one for
> > > > > software sequencing and one for hardware?
> > > >
> > > > So if this is true, I think we can create Kconfig options (HW_SEQ and
> > > > SW_SEQ) for ICH SPI driver, and select either one in the SoC Kconfig
> > > > file.
> > >
> > > I think at least for TPL I'm going to need to bypass all the code as
> > > it is just too big for TPL. What do you think?
> >
> > So what about other boards/drivers? Say we have drv_foo.c, is the best
> > practice to create a separate drv_foo_tpl.c for use with TPL?
>
> Yes, although in general we can export the functions from the core
> driver, so the TPL one becomes pretty bare-bones - e.g. it handles
> platdata but uses the operations of the core drivers.
>
> >
> > >
> > > Should we have a separate HW SEQ driver? If you look at the HW SEQ
> > > driver I have, it is very little code.
> > >
> > > Or are you saying we should have a combined driver with Kconfig
> > > options to enable either or both of SW SEQ and HW SEQ?
> > >
> >
> > Yes I was suggesting enable either or both SW and HW SEQ in the same driver.
>
> OK I will take a look at that.
>
> My code-size concern still stands though, but let's see how it looks.
>
> >
> > > One other wrinkle is that I have to have a separate driver anyway,
> > > since of-platdata requires it. It is not possible to use of-platdata
> > > in a generic driver since the struct definitions rely on the
> > > compatible string.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > But I see from the Linux kernel driver, it has:
> > > >
> > > > 300static int intel_spi_init(struct intel_spi *ispi)
> > > > 301{
> > > > 302 u32 opmenu0, opmenu1, lvscc, uvscc, val;
> > > > 303 int i;
> > > > 304
> > > > 305 switch (ispi->info->type) {
> > > > 306 case INTEL_SPI_BYT:
> > > > 307 ispi->sregs = ispi->base + BYT_SSFSTS_CTL;
> > > > 308 ispi->pregs = ispi->base + BYT_PR;
> > > > 309 ispi->nregions = BYT_FREG_NUM;
> > > > 310 ispi->pr_num = BYT_PR_NUM;
> > > > 311 ispi->swseq_reg = true;
> > > > 312
> > > > 313 if (writeable) {
> > > > 314 /* Disable write protection */
> > > > 315 val = readl(ispi->base + BYT_BCR);
> > > > 316 if (!(val & BYT_BCR_WPD)) {
> > > > 317 val |= BYT_BCR_WPD;
> > > > 318 writel(val, ispi->base + BYT_BCR);
> > > > 319 val = readl(ispi->base + BYT_BCR);
> > > > 320 }
> > > > 321
> > > > 322 ispi->writeable = !!(val & BYT_BCR_WPD);
> > > > 323 }
> > > > 324
> > > > 325 break;
> > > > 326
> > > > 327 case INTEL_SPI_LPT:
> > > > 328 ispi->sregs = ispi->base + LPT_SSFSTS_CTL;
> > > > 329 ispi->pregs = ispi->base + LPT_PR;
> > > > 330 ispi->nregions = LPT_FREG_NUM;
> > > > 331 ispi->pr_num = LPT_PR_NUM;
> > > > 332 ispi->swseq_reg = true;
> > > > 333 break;
> > > > 334
> > > > 335 case INTEL_SPI_BXT:
> > > > 336 ispi->sregs = ispi->base + BXT_SSFSTS_CTL;
> > > > 337 ispi->pregs = ispi->base + BXT_PR;
> > > > 338 ispi->nregions = BXT_FREG_NUM;
> > > > 339 ispi->pr_num = BXT_PR_NUM;
> > > > 340 ispi->erase_64k = true;
> > > > 341 break;
> > > >
> > > > So for INTEL_SPI_BXT (which is for ApolloLake I believe)
> > > > ispi->swseq_reg is not set to true which means it uses hardware
> > > > sequencer, which seems to contradict with what you found.
> > >
> > > I found that it only supports hardware sequencing, so this matches.
> >
> > OK, I see. So the BXT only supports HW SEQ while LPT and BYT support
> > both SW and HW SEQ.
>
> OK, ta. How do I look up what LPT and BYT are?
>
I think LPT stands Linx Point (the PCH chipset that desktop processors
use) and BYT stands BayTrail which U-Boot already supports.
Regards,
Bin
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