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| author | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2022-02-15 12:53:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2022-02-15 12:53:31 +0000 |
| commit | 0177212e2789919be68c7922f33c71febc74842b (patch) | |
| tree | 55888e58957dcef4534424329836f8d03824dde6 /Documentation | |
| parent | f48dc6b9664963107e500aecfc2f4df27dc5afb6 (diff) | |
| parent | 4ab13489735d9b5b6e91634eab83922914a3310c (diff) | |
| download | linux-0177212e2789919be68c7922f33c71febc74842b.tar.bz2 | |
mtd: spi-nor / spi / MFD: Convert intel-spi to SPI MEM
Merge series from Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>:
Based on discussion on the patch I sent some time ago here:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2021-June/086867.html
it turns out that the preferred way to deal with the SPI flash controller
drivers is through SPI MEM which is part of Linux SPI subsystem.
This series does that for the intel-spi driver. This also renames the
driver to follow the convention used in the SPI subsystem. The first patch
improves the write protection handling to be slightly more safer. The
following two patches do the conversion itself. Note the Intel SPI flash
controller only allows commands such as read, write and so on and it
internally uses whatever addressing etc. it figured from the SFDP on the
flash device.
base-commit: e783362eb54cd99b2cac8b3a9aeac942e6f6ac07
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/mtd/index.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/mtd/spi-intel.rst (renamed from Documentation/driver-api/mtd/intel-spi.rst) | 8 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/index.rst index 436ba5a851d7..6a4278f409d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/index.rst @@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ Memory Technology Device (MTD) .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 - intel-spi + spi-intel nand_ecc spi-nor diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/intel-spi.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/spi-intel.rst index 0465f6879262..df854f20ead1 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/intel-spi.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/spi-intel.rst @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ============================== -Upgrading BIOS using intel-spi +Upgrading BIOS using spi-intel ============================== Many Intel CPUs like Baytrail and Braswell include SPI serial flash host @@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ avoid accidental (or on purpose) overwrite of the content. Not all manufacturers protect the SPI serial flash, mainly because it allows upgrading the BIOS image directly from an OS. -The intel-spi driver makes it possible to read and write the SPI serial +The spi-intel driver makes it possible to read and write the SPI serial flash, if certain protection bits are not set and locked. If it finds any of them set, the whole MTD device is made read-only to prevent partial overwrites. By default the driver exposes SPI serial flash contents as read-only but it can be changed from kernel command line, -passing "intel-spi.writeable=1". +passing "spi_intel.writeable=1". Please keep in mind that overwriting the BIOS image on SPI serial flash might render the machine unbootable and requires special equipment like @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Linux. serial flash. Distros like Debian and Fedora have this prepackaged with name "mtd-utils". - 3) Add "intel-spi.writeable=1" to the kernel command line and reboot + 3) Add "spi_intel.writeable=1" to the kernel command line and reboot the board (you can also reload the driver passing "writeable=1" as module parameter to modprobe). |