[PATCH linux v2 0/3] ASPEED SPI driver support for dual IO mode

[Cédric Le Goater]

Hello Robert,

On 01/10/2017 11:55 PM, Robert Lippert wrote:
> 
> Adds support for dual IO SPI mode.  This speeds up SPI accesses, dropping
> time to dump an entire 64MB Macronix chip from ~12s to ~6s using:
> 	dd if=/dev/mtdblock0 bs=64MB count=1 of=/dev/null
> 
> The dual IO bit mode should not depend on any board-specific properties
> as it uses the same IO lines as single bit mode.  Only issue could be
> if a board used a one-way level tranlator or mux on the MOSI line
> but that seems unlikely to me.
> 
> Tested on Zaius board with AST2500 chip, not tested on AST2400 but I
> expect it to work since registers are identical.
> 
> Note dropped TODO about quad mode since ASPEED SPI controller does
> not support quad mode.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Cleanups suggested by Cedric.

could you please give a quick try to this kernel : 

	https://github.com/legoater/linux/commits/openbmc-4.7

This is an openbmc 4.7 kernel with a backport of the mainline smc 
driver, dma support, fastread support and your dual io support.

I have tested it on a palmetto and an ast2500 evb but I don't have 
the HW you use.  

Thanks,

C.