[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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