> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schrempf Frieder <frieder.schre...@kontron.de>
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 1:46 PM
> To: Kuldeep Singh <kuldeep.si...@nxp.com>; Joe Hershberger
> <joe.hershber...@ni.com>; u-boot@lists.denx.de
> Cc: Priyanka Jain <priyanka.j...@nxp.com>; Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com>
> Subject: [EXT] Re: [RESEND][Patch v4] net: pfe_eth: Use spi_flash_read API to
> access flash memory
>
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> On 28.05.20 08:12, Kuldeep Singh wrote:
> > Current PFE firmware access spi-nor memory directly. New spi-mem
> > framework does not support direct memory access. So, let's use
> > spi_flash_read API to access memory instead of directly using it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kuldeep Singh <kuldeep.si...@nxp.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schre...@kontron.de>
>
> So this patch has been floating around for about half a year now with almost
> no attention from the maintainers! Several pings have been sent by the
> author without response.
>
> In fact this patch was blocking 91afd36f3802 ("spi: Transform the FSL
> QuadSPI driver to use the SPI MEM API") that has finally been merged,
> ignoring the fact that it will break ls1012a without this being applied too.
>
> I don't want to blame anyone, but I want to voice my disappointment and
> raise attention that something is obviously wrong here.
Hi Priyanka,
Could you please help in reviewing this patch. The idea/motivation of these
changes are taken from fm driver.
The said changes in fm are already accepted in commit 382c53f94631 ("net: fm:
add TFABOOT support").
You may take a look at code here[1], line: 380.
Thanks
Kuldeep
[1] https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/blob/master/drivers/net/fm/fm.c
