[PATCH v3 3/5] spi: spi-mem: Allow specifying the byte order in DTR mode

Michael Walle michael at walle.cc
Sun Aug 6 23:40:32 PDT 2023


Am 2023-08-04 11:54, schrieb Jaime Liao:
> From: JaimeLiao <jaimeliao at mxic.com.tw>

This doesn't match..

> 
> There are NOR flashes (Macronix) that swap the bytes on a 16-bit
> boundary when configured in Octal DTR mode. The byte order of
> 16-bit words is swapped when read or written in Octal Double
> Transfer Rate (DTR) mode compared to Single Transfer Rate (STR)
> modes. If one writes D0 D1 D2 D3 bytes using 1-1-1 mode, and uses
> 8D-8D-8D SPI mode for reading, it will read back D1 D0 D3 D2.
> Swapping the bytes may introduce some endianness problems. It can
> affect the boot sequence if the entire boot sequence is not handled
> in either 8D-8D-8D mode or 1-1-1 mode. So we must swap the bytes
> back to have the same byte order as in STR modes. Fortunately there
> are controllers that could swap the bytes back at runtime,
> addressing the flash's endiannesses requirements. Provide a way for
> the upper layers to specify the byte order in Octal DTR mode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus at linaro.org>

.. this. If you pick up a patch from another author, you should
keep the author of the patch.

-michael

> ---
>  drivers/spi/spi-mem.c       | 3 +++
>  include/linux/spi/spi-mem.h | 6 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c b/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c
> index edd7430d4c05..fd6b1c69ab9b 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c
> @@ -171,6 +171,9 @@ bool spi_mem_default_supports_op(struct spi_mem 
> *mem,
>  	if (op_is_dtr) {
>  		if (!spi_mem_controller_is_capable(ctlr, dtr))
>  			return false;
> +		if (op->data.dtr_swab16 &&
> +		    !(spi_mem_controller_is_capable(ctlr, dtr_swab16)))
> +			return false;
> 
>  		if (op->cmd.nbytes != 2)
>  			return false;
> diff --git a/include/linux/spi/spi-mem.h b/include/linux/spi/spi-mem.h
> index 8e984d75f5b6..9da6d53a29a3 100644
> --- a/include/linux/spi/spi-mem.h
> +++ b/include/linux/spi/spi-mem.h
> @@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ enum spi_mem_data_dir {
>   * @dummy.dtr: whether the dummy bytes should be sent in DTR mode or 
> not
>   * @data.buswidth: number of IO lanes used to send/receive the data
>   * @data.dtr: whether the data should be sent in DTR mode or not
> + * @data.dtr_swab16: whether the byte order of 16-bit words is swapped 
> when read
> + *		     or written in Octal DTR mode compare to STR mode
>   * @data.ecc: whether error correction is required or not
>   * @data.dir: direction of the transfer
>   * @data.nbytes: number of data bytes to send/receive. Can be zero if 
> the
> @@ -120,6 +122,7 @@ struct spi_mem_op {
>  	struct {
>  		u8 buswidth;
>  		u8 dtr : 1;
> +		u8 dtr_swab16 : 1;
>  		u8 ecc : 1;
>  		enum spi_mem_data_dir dir;
>  		unsigned int nbytes;
> @@ -290,10 +293,13 @@ struct spi_controller_mem_ops {
>  /**
>   * struct spi_controller_mem_caps - SPI memory controller capabilities
>   * @dtr: Supports DTR operations
> + * @dtr_swab16: Supports swapping bytes on a 16 bit boundary when 
> configured in
> +		Octal DTR
>   * @ecc: Supports operations with error correction
>   */
>  struct spi_controller_mem_caps {
>  	bool dtr;
> +	bool dtr_swab16;
>  	bool ecc;
>  };



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