[PATCH] memory: renesas-rpc-if: Fix IO state based on flash type

Biju Das biju.das.jz at bp.renesas.com
Thu Sep 14 05:17:08 PDT 2023


Hi Michael Walle,

> Subject: Re: [PATCH] memory: renesas-rpc-if: Fix IO state based on flash
> type
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >> > I'm not sure we can do that, as this code is part of the hardware
> >> > initialization during probing.
> >> > Biju: is this needed that early, or can it be done later, after the
> >> > connected device has been identified?
> >>
> >> I need to check that.
> >>
> >> You mean patch drivers/spi/spi-rpc-if.c to identify the flash type
> >> from sfdp info and pass as a parameter to rpcif_hw_init??
> >
> > Something like that.
> >
> > That configuration should be saved somewhere, as rpcif_hw_init() is
> > also called from rpcif_resume(), and when recovering from an error in
> > rpcif_manual_xfer().
> 
> I'm not sure I follow everything here, but apparently you want to set the
> mode of the I/O pins of the controller, right? Shouldn't that depend on the
> spi-mem mode, i.e. the buswidth? Certainly not on the type of flash which
> is connected to the spi controller.


How do you handle the IO states sections mentioned in the HW manual[1] and [2]? 

Without this setting flash detection/ read/write failing with tx in 4-bit mode.

 [1] Figure 20: QUAD INPUT/OUTPUT FAST READ - EBh/ECh
 https://media-www.micron.com/-/media/client/global/documents/products/data-sheet/nor-flash/serial-nor/mt25q/die-rev-a/mt25q_qlks_u_512_aba_0.pdf?rev=3e5b2a574f7b4790b6e58dacf4c889b2

 [2] section 8.14

https://www.renesas.com/eu/en/document/dst/at25ql128a-datasheet?r=1608586

Cheers,
Biju


> What about dual mode?
> 
> -michael



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