[PATCH v2] pxa/hx4700: Correct StrataFlash block size discovery

Haojian Zhuang haojian.zhuang at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 20:22:44 EST 2012


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Paul Parsons <lost.distance at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The HP iPAQ hx4700 has 128Mb of flash provided by two Intel StrataFlash devices.
> The hx4700 platform configuration defines a single 128Mb flash resource,
> resulting in the MTD physmap-flash driver probing the first device only and
> presuming the second device is identical:
>
> physmap platform flash device: 08000000 at 00000000
> physmap-flash: Found 2 x16 devices at 0x0 in 32-bit bank. Manufacturer ID 0x000089 Chip ID 0x008816
> physmap-flash: Found 2 x16 devices at 0x4000000 in 32-bit bank
> <snip>
> erase region 0: offset=0x0,size=0x10000,blocks=4
> erase region 1: offset=0x40000,size=0x40000,blocks=255
> erase region 2: offset=0x4000000,size=0x10000,blocks=4
> erase region 3: offset=0x4040000,size=0x40000,blocks=255
> physmap-flash: 2 set(s) of 2 interleaved chips --> 32 partitions of 4096 KiB
>
> Unfortunately the two devices are not identical. The first has a device ID of
> 0x8816, identifying a bottom parameter device. The second has a device ID of
> 0x8813, identifying a top parameter device. By not probing the second device,
> physmap-flash does not discover the correct block sizes.
>
> This patch splits the configuration into two 64Mb flash resources, forcing
> physmap-flash to probe both devices and thus discover the correct block sizes:
>
> physmap platform flash device: 04000000 at 00000000
> physmap-flash: Found 2 x16 devices at 0x0 in 32-bit bank. Manufacturer ID 0x000089 Chip ID 0x008816
> <snip>
> erase region 0: offset=0x0,size=0x10000,blocks=4
> erase region 1: offset=0x40000,size=0x40000,blocks=255
> physmap-flash: 1 set(s) of 2 interleaved chips --> 16 partitions of 4096 KiB
> physmap platform flash device: 04000000 at 04000000
> physmap-flash: Found 2 x16 devices at 0x0 in 32-bit bank. Manufacturer ID 0x000089 Chip ID 0x008813
> <snip>
> erase region 0: offset=0x0,size=0x40000,blocks=255
> erase region 1: offset=0x3fc0000,size=0x10000,blocks=4
> physmap-flash: 1 set(s) of 2 interleaved chips --> 16 partitions of 4096 KiB
> Concatenating MTD devices:
> (0): "physmap-flash"
> (1): "physmap-flash"
> into device "physmap-flash"
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Parsons <lost.distance at yahoo.com>
> ---
>
> V2:
> Use DEFINE_RES_MEM().
>

Applied

Thanks
Haojian



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