[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] improved SPI flash support (restructured)

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Mon Oct 1 15:13:12 CEST 2007


On 01.10.2007 15:00, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:53:35PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> Unfortunately not. Hmm... you used -v (verify) instead of -V (verbose).
> 
> Woops - that's what happens when you try to do stuff before coffee.
> 
>> And my patch was incomplete.
>>
>> Can you try "flashrom -V -m gigabyte:m57sli" with the attached patch
>> (against current svn) and report back?
> 
> Yes, this looks a lot better:
> 
> # ./flashrom -V -m gigabyte:m57sli
> Calibrating delay loop... 283M loops per second. ok
> No LinuxBIOS table found.
> Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55": Enabling flash write... OK.
> Found board "GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI": Enabling flash write... Serial flash
> segment 0xfffe0000-0xffffffff enabled
> Serial flash segment 0x000e0000-0x000fffff enabled
> Serial flash segment 0xffee0000-0xffefffff disabled
> Serial flash segment 0xfff80000-0xfffeffff enabled
> LPC write to serial flash enabled
> serial flash pin 29
> OK.
> Probing for Am29F040B, 512 KB
> probe_29f040b: id1 0x49, id2 0x4d
> Probing for Am29F016D, 2048 KB
> probe_29f040b: id1 0xff, id2 0xff
> Probing for AE49F2008, 256 KB
> probe_jedec: id1 0x83, id2 0x83
> Probing for At29C040A, 512 KB
> probe_jedec: id1 0x49, id2 0x4d
> Probing for At29C020, 256 KB
> probe_jedec: id1 0x83, id2 0x83
> Probing for Mx29f002, 256 KB
> probe_29f002: id1 0x83, id2 0x83
> Probing for MX25L4005, 512 KB
> RDID returned c2 20 13
> probe_spi: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2013
> MX25L4005 found at physical address: 0xfff80000
> Flash part is MX25L4005 (512 KB)
> OK, only ENABLING flash write, but NOT FLASHING.

Great! Can you ack/commit with the following changelog?
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This patch aims to restructure SPI flash support in a more reasonable
way. It introduces a generic SPI host driver for the IT8716F Super I/O
which will enable easy SPI programming without having to care for the
peculiarities of the SPI host.

To activate probing for the IT8716F, you have to use the gigabyte:m57sli
mainboard override. SPI support will then use the gathered SPI host data
to access the SPI flash.

This has been tested sucessfully by Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> on the
GA-M57SLI v2.0, which has a MX25L4005 SPI flash part.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>

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Thanks,
Carl-Daniel




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