[PATCH v2 linux dev-4.7 0/7] Aspeed SMC improvements

Joel Stanley joel at jms.id.au
Thu Nov 10 11:37:46 AEDT 2016


On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here is short serie improving the Aspeed SMC driver. There are a
> couple of fixes and also changes preparing ground for read
> optimization.
>
> Patch 1 and 2 are fixes for the current driver. When merging all the
> code before sending a v1 to mainline, a few minor errors slipped
> through.
>
> Patch 3 and 4 are cleanups.
>
> Patch 5 and 6 should not have any impacts as we are not using DMAs or
> fast reads, yet.
>
> Patch 7 is more important as the IO routines are completely reworked.
>
> I dropped the patch activating command mode for read. It is broken on
> the witherspoon because the size of the flash module is larger than
> the maximum allowable segment window for a CS. It would nice to
> activate it when possible but this requires more checks.
>
> I gave the patches a good test on a palmetto, an ast2500 evb and a
> witherspool and the overall result should be a v2 for upstream.

Thanks for these. I have applied them to dev-4.7.

Cheers,

Joel


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