[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom patch for iwill dk8_htx

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:44:10PM +0200, Mondrian Nuessle wrote:
> Actually you do not need to set the index reg twice. I just used the
> code pattern from the Agami Aruma board, which does the same thing...

In that case, we should introduce functions like:

void w83xxx_ext_enter(void);
void w83xxx_ext_leave(void);

/* Enter extended functions before using these! */
unsigned char w83xxx_ext_read(unsigned char index);
void w83xxx_ext_write(unsigned char index, unsigned char data);
void w83xxx_ext_mask(unsigned char index, unsigned char data,
		     unsigned char mask);

A _mask function is not that common, but this plainly provides a bitmask 
for data to be written. I don't see it around much, but i very much 
enjoy having them around in my code.

This replaces:

	/* set GPIO regs... */
	outb(0x2b, EFIR);       /* GPIO multiplexed pin reg. */
	b = inb(EFDR) | 0xd0;
	outb(0x2b, EFIR);
	outb(b, EFDR);

which would've been changed to:

	/* set GPIO regs... */
	b= w83xxx_ext_read(0x2b);       /* GPIO multiplexed pin reg. */
        b |= 0xd0;
	w83xxx_ext_write(0x2b, b);

with:
	w83xxx_ext_mask(0x2B, 0xD0, 0xD0); /* Set GPIO regs... */

I don't think that these functions need to live outside board_enable.c 
The size of them will already largely be made up for by the code we 
save with this.

Luc Verhaegen.

PS: Mondrian, there is no need for your patch to also implement this. 
With the whitespace comments, i didn't expect you to go over the whole 
file, but looking back, it's good that you did so though, as i was 
unaware of the spaces still being there.