PIC32 internal flash devices are parallel NOR flash divided into
number of banks to allow erase-programming in one while fetch and
execution continues on other. As the flash banks are memory mapped
stored code can be executed directly from flash (XIP), also there
is additional hardware logic to prefetch and cache contents to
improve execution performance. These flash can also be used to
store user data (like environment).
Flash erase and programming are handled by on-chip NVM controller.
Driver implemented driver model but MTD is not really support.
Signed-off-by: Purna Chandra Mandal <purna.mandal@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add Altera Generic Quad SPI Controller support. The controller
converts SPI NOR flash to parallel flash interface. So it is
not like other SPI flash, but rather like CFI flash.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
Implement a Memory Technology Device (MTD) uclass. It should
include most flash drivers in the future. Though no uclass ops
are defined yet, the MTD ops could be used.
The NAND flash driver is based on MTD. The CFI flash and SPI
flash support MTD, too. It should make sense to convert them
to MTD uclass.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
Expand the help messages for each driver. Add missing Kconfig for I2C,
SPI flash and thermal.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Commit 3eb3e72a3f (nand/denali: Adding Denali NAND driver support)
introduced some new options, and some of them were documented by
commit f9860cf081 (nand/denali: Document CONFIG symbols).
This commit allows users to enable/disable them via Kconfig
with more detailed help docs.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Chin Liang See <clsee@altera.com>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
This would be useful to start moving various config options.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
