[PATCH 2/2] mtd: map_rom: Support UBI on ROM
Brian Norris
computersforpeace at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 23:31:30 PST 2015
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:20:24PM -0500, Aaron Sierra wrote:
> UBI needs to know the physical erase block size, even on read-only
> devices, since it defines the on-device layout. Use a device-tree
> provided value to support previously written UBI on read-only NOR.
>
> UBI also needs a non-zero writebufsize, so we set it to one.
>
> Note: This was implemented because hardware write-protected CFI
> NOR cannot be probed for the physical erase block size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Schultz <jschultz at xes-inc.ccom>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Sierra <asierra at xes-inc.ccom>
Pushed to l2-mtd.git with two small tweaks:
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd-physmap.txt | 5 +++++
> drivers/mtd/chips/map_rom.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd-physmap.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd-physmap.txt
> index 6b9f680..8ab16df 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd-physmap.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd-physmap.txt
> @@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ are defined:
> - vendor-id : Contains the flash chip's vendor id (1 byte).
> - device-id : Contains the flash chip's device id (1 byte).
>
> +For ROM compatible devices (and ROM fallback from cfi-flash), the following
> +additional property is defined:
I noted that this property is optional, just to be clear.
> +
> + - erase-size : The chip's physical erase block size in bytes.
> +
> The device tree may optionally contain sub-nodes describing partitions of the
> address space. See partition.txt for more detail.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/chips/map_rom.c b/drivers/mtd/chips/map_rom.c
> index 47a43cf..a831265 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/chips/map_rom.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/chips/map_rom.c
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
> #include <linux/errno.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/init.h>
> +#include <linux/of.h>
> #include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
> #include <linux/mtd/map.h>
>
> @@ -28,6 +29,15 @@ static struct mtd_chip_driver maprom_chipdrv = {
> .module = THIS_MODULE
> };
>
> +static unsigned int default_erasesize(struct map_info *map)
> +{
> + const __be32 *erase_size = NULL;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_OF
I dropped this #ifdef.
> + erase_size = of_get_property(map->device_node, "erase-size", NULL);
> +#endif
> + return !erase_size ? map->size : be32_to_cpu(*erase_size);
> +}
> +
> static struct mtd_info *map_rom_probe(struct map_info *map)
> {
> struct mtd_info *mtd;
> @@ -47,8 +57,9 @@ static struct mtd_info *map_rom_probe(struct map_info *map)
> mtd->_sync = maprom_nop;
> mtd->_erase = maprom_erase;
> mtd->flags = MTD_CAP_ROM;
> - mtd->erasesize = map->size;
> + mtd->erasesize = default_erasesize(map);
> mtd->writesize = 1;
> + mtd->writebufsize = 1;
>
> __module_get(THIS_MODULE);
> return mtd;
Brian
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