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authorMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2013-12-03 16:43:27 -0700
committerSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2013-12-09 12:22:39 -0700
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sandbox: spi: Add new SPI flash driver
This adds a SPI flash driver which simulates SPI flash clients. Currently supports the bare min that U-Boot requires: you can probe, read, erase, and write. Should be easy to extend to make it behave more exactly like a real SPI flash, but this is good enough to merge now. sjg@chromium.org added a README and tidied up code a little. Added a required map_sysmem() for sandbox. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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+Sandbox SPI/SPI Flash Implementation
+====================================
+
+U-Boot supports SPI and SPI flash emuation in sandbox. This must be enabled
+using the --spi_sf paramter when starting U-Boot.
+
+For example:
+
+$ make O=sandbox sandbox_config
+$ make O=sandbox
+$ ./sandbox/u-boot --spi_sf 0:0:W25Q128:b/chromeos_peach/out/image.bin
+
+The four parameters to spi_sf are:
+
+ SPI bus number (typically 0)
+ SPI chip select number (typically 0)
+ SPI chip to emulate
+ File containing emulated data
+
+Supported chips are W25Q16 (2MB), W25Q32 (4MB) and W25Q128 (16MB). Once
+U-Boot it started you can use 'sf' commands as normal. For example:
+
+$ ./b/sandbox/u-boot --spi_sf 0:0:W25Q128:b/chromeos_peach/out/image.bin \
+ -c "sf probe; sf test 0 100000; sf read 0 1000 1000; \
+ sf erase 1000 1000; sf write 0 1000 1000"
+
+
+U-Boot 2013.10-00237-gd4e0fdb (Nov 07 2013 - 20:08:15)
+
+DRAM: 128 MiB
+Using default environment
+
+In: serial
+Out: serial
+Err: serial
+SF: Detected W25Q128BV with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 16 MiB
+SPI flash test:
+0 erase: 1 ticks, 1024000 KiB/s 8192.000 Mbps
+1 check: 2 ticks, 512000 KiB/s 4096.000 Mbps
+2 write: 6 ticks, 170666 KiB/s 1365.328 Mbps
+3 read: 0 ticks, 1048576000 KiB/s -201326.-592 Mbps
+Test passed
+0 erase: 1 ticks, 1024000 KiB/s 8192.000 Mbps
+1 check: 2 ticks, 512000 KiB/s 4096.000 Mbps
+2 write: 6 ticks, 170666 KiB/s 1365.328 Mbps
+3 read: 0 ticks, 1048576000 KiB/s -201326.-592 Mbps
+SF: 4096 bytes @ 0x1000 Read: OK
+SF: 4096 bytes @ 0x1000 Erased: OK
+SF: 4096 bytes @ 0x1000 Written: OK
+
+
+Since the SPI bus is fully implemented as well as the SPI flash connected to
+it, you can also use low-level SPI commands to access the flash. For example
+this reads the device ID from the emulated chip:
+
+=> sspi 0 32 9f
+FFEF4018
+
+
+Simon Glass
+sjg@chromium.org
+7/11/2013
+Note that the sandbox SPI implementation was written by Mike Frysinger
+<vapier@gentoo.org>.