On 08/07/2015 03:46 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: [snip] > On 7 August 2015 at 10:35, Vignesh R <vigneshr@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> On 08/07/2015 01:08 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> >>> Now since the description is clearer it's obvious that ti-qspi cannot >>> work fully mmapped as fsl-qspi does because the setup has to be done >>> over normal spi access and using non-m25p80 devices on the same bus is >>> a requirement. >>> >>> The place where it is known if a transfer can use the mmap access is m25p80.c >>> >>> So my suggestion is >>> >>> - add a new method for spi master that gets the read opcode, dummy >>> length, address, address length, buffer, buffer length and performs >>> read from the flash memory in a hardware-specific way >>> >>> - add a check in m25p80.c that the master supports this feature and if >>> so use it (eg check that the method is non-null) >>> >>> Presumably if some new SPI controllers with similar feature are >>> supported in the future they can use the same inteface because you >>> pass on everything the m25p80 read knows. >>> >> >> Ok... Do you mean something like this? >> >> I will take m25p80 as example but can be expanded for any flash. >> >> In include/linux/mtd.h: >> struct spi_mtd_config_info { >> struct spi_device *spi; >> u32 page_size; >> u8 addr_width; >> u8 erase_opcode; >> u8 read_opcode; >> u8 read_dummy; >> u8 program_opcode; >> enum read_mode flash_read; >> >> } /* subset of struct spi_nor */ >> > > I would just pass these as separate arguments to the function but whatver. > >> In m25p80.c: >> >> static int m25p80_read(struct spi_nor *nor, loff_t from, >> size_t len, size_t *retlen, >> u_char *buf) >> { >> struct spi_mtd_config_info info; >> struct spi_device *spi; >> >> if (spi->master->spi_mtd_mmap_read) { >> /* Populate spi_mtd_config_info */ >> spi->master->spi_mtd_mmap_read(&info, from, len, >> retlen, buf); >> } >> else { >> /* no mtd specific acceleration supported try normal >> * SPI way of communicating with flash >> * continue with current code >> * set up spi_message and call spi_sync() >> */ >> } >> >> } >> >> In spi-ti-qspi.c: >> Implement spi_mtd_mmap_read while holding master->bus_lock mutex. >> > I will re-submit patches based on the above idea, if there are no further comments.. -- Thanks Vignesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-spi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html