On Wed, 2019-08-21 at 09:46 +0000, Xiaowei Bao wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernl...@infinera.com>
> > Sent: 2019年8月21日 15:52
> > To: Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar.kushw...@nxp.com>; Ruchika Gupta
> > <ruchika.gu...@nxp.com>; Xiaowei Bao <xiaowei....@nxp.com>;
> > Shengzhou Liu <shengzhou....@nxp.com>; w...@denx.de;
> > ja...@amarulasolutions.com
> > Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de; Jiafei Pan <jiafei....@nxp.com>; Chuanhua Han
> > <chuanhua....@nxp.com>
> > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 2/5] dm: spi: Convert Freescale ESPI driver
> > to
> > driver model
> >
> > On Wed, 2019-08-21 at 01:19 +0000, Xiaowei Bao wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernl...@infinera.com>
> > > > Sent: 2019年8月20日 19:04
> > > > To: Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar.kushw...@nxp.com>; Ruchika
> > Gupta
> > > > <ruchika.gu...@nxp.com>; Xiaowei Bao <xiaowei....@nxp.com>;
> > > > Shengzhou Liu <shengzhou....@nxp.com>; w...@denx.de;
> > > > ja...@amarulasolutions.com
> > > > Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de; Jiafei Pan <jiafei....@nxp.com>; Chuanhua
> > > > Han <chuanhua....@nxp.com>
> > > > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 2/5] dm: spi: Convert Freescale ESPI
> > > > driver to driver model
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 06:59 +0000, Xiaowei Bao wrote:
> > > > > From: Chuanhua Han <chuanhua....@nxp.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > Modify the Freescale ESPI driver to support the driver model.
> > > > > Also resolved the following problems:
> > > > >
> > > > > ===================== WARNING ====================== This
> > > > board does
> > > > > not use CONFIG_DM_SPI. Please update the board before v2019.04 for
> > > > > no dm conversion and v2019.07 for partially dm converted drivers.
> > > > > Failure to update can lead to driver/board removal See
> > > > > doc/driver-model/MIGRATION.txt for more info.
> > > > > ====================================================
> > > > > ===================== WARNING ====================== This
> > > > board does
> > > > > not use CONFIG_DM_SPI_FLASH. Please update the board to use
> > > > > CONFIG_SPI_FLASH before the v2019.07 release.
> > > > > Failure to update by the deadline may result in board removal.
> > > > > See doc/driver-model/MIGRATION.txt for more info.
> > > > > ====================================================
> > > >
> > > > These are not the only problems with this driver it is borken for
> > > > anything but loading small amount of data from SPI NOR flash.
> > > > Look at spi_xfer:
> > > > overuse of malloc/memcpy
> > > > misuse of word size(always 32 bits) making proper of
> > > > ESPI_EV_RNE/ESPI_EV_TNF impossible.
> > > > random test of 0x0b:
> > > > memcpy(data_in, buffer + 2 * cmd_len, tran_len);
> > > > if (*buffer == 0x0b) {
> > > > data_in += tran_len;
> > > > data_len -= tran_len;
> > > > *(int *)buffer += tran_len;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > I think fixing the driver to work properly first is preferable to DM
> > conversion.
> > > Thanks a lot for your comments, in fact, these code exist all the
> > > time, I never modify this part code, and I have verified the SPI flash
> > > use 4K data, the test result is ok, I will check and analyze this part
> > > code, and
> > give the reply later, thanks.
> >
> > Yes, this code has been borken for years and like I said, it only works for
> > SPI
> > NOR flash which is what you tested.
> > Try a simple SPI device, reading and writing registers.
> >
> > Here is an old hack for loading FPGAs using ESPI_COM_TO, hopefully this can
> > be of some use:
> > https://patch
> > work.ozlabs.org%2Fpatch%2F330242%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cxiaowei.b
> > ao%40nxp.com%7Cbb03e40adaf14ddabb3308d7260c624a%7C686ea1d3bc2
> > b4c6fa92cd99c5c301635%7C0%7C0%7C637019706960729747&sdata=
> > LBnGwExukwfx4Txln7gbC797CK0Nuu1Q%2BG8iK4lCR4M%3D&reserved
> > =0
> >
> > In short, the inner working of spi_xfer() needs a full rewrite, using the
> > proper
> > SPI word size, you have no chance of supporting SPI_LSB_FIRST without
> > correct word size.
> Thanks a lot, I think I need to do another new patch which reimplement the
> xfer function,
> This is better, because this issue fix should not in DM patch, I will submit
> another new patch to fix
> this issue, but maybe spend some time, because I am not very clear about the
> FSL ESPI
> driver, and the verification will be a problem, because I don't find other
> SPI device except
> SPI flash device in our RDB or QDS board, but I am going to do this.
Thanks, I think random access(read/write) to SPI NOR flash will be enough for
testing.
It won't be any worse than today as it is broken already.
Jocke
> > Jocke
> >
> > > > Jocke
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