[PATCH v2 00/10] spi-nor: intel-spi: Various fixes and enhancements

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Mon, 2017-09-11 at 02:41 -0700, Bin Meng wrote:
> This series does several bug fixes and clean ups against the intel-spi
> spi-nor driver, as well as enhancements to make the driver independent
> on the underlying BIOS/bootloader.
> 
> At present the driver uses the HW sequencer for the read/write/erase on
> all supported platforms, read_reg/write_reg for BXT, and the SW sequencer
> for read_reg/write_reg for BYT/LPT. The way the driver uses the HW and SW
> sequencer relies on some programmed register settings and hence creates
> unneeded dependencies with the underlying BIOS/bootloader. For example,
> the driver unfortunately does not work as expected when booting from
> Intel Baytrail FSP based bootloaders like U-Boot, as the Baytrail FSP
> does not set up some SPI controller settings to make the driver happy.
> Now such limitation has been removed with this series.

Hi Bin

Just starting to test these on Rangeley and got a question: We have two SPI flashes on CS0 resp. CS1 
and the mtd driver seems to only map the first of those flashes. Is this intentional or
are we missing something?

 Jocke

> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Add stable kernel tags in the commit message (patch [03/10])
> - Fix typo of 'operatoin' (patch [10/10])
> - Add Mika Westerberg's 'Acked-by' tag
> 
> Bin Meng (10):
>   spi-nor: intel-spi: Fix number of protected range registers for
>     BYT/LPT
>   spi-nor: intel-spi: Remove useless 'buf' parameter in the HW/SW cycle
>   spi-nor: intel-spi: Fix broken software sequencing codes
>   spi-nor: intel-spi: Check transfer length in the HW/SW cycle
>   spi-nor: intel-spi: Use SW sequencer for BYT/LPT
>   spi-nor: intel-spi: Remove 'Atomic Cycle Sequence' in
>     intel_spi_write()
>   spi-nor: intel-spi: Don't assume OPMENU0/1 to be programmed by BIOS
>   spi-nor: intel-spi: Remove the unnecessary HSFSTS register RW
>   spi-nor: intel-spi: Rename swseq to swseq_reg in 'struct intel_spi'
>   spi-nor: intel-spi: Fall back to use SW sequencer to erase
> 
>  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/intel-spi.c | 209 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 151 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
>