5 Part I - Why do we need this framework?
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8 SPI bus controllers (drivers/spi/) only deal with streams of bytes; the bus
9 controller operates agnostic of the specific device attached. However, some
10 controllers (such as Freescale's QuadSPI controller) cannot easily handle
11 arbitrary streams of bytes, but rather are designed specifically for SPI NOR.
13 In particular, Freescale's QuadSPI controller must know the NOR commands to
14 find the right LUT sequence. Unfortunately, the SPI subsystem has no notion of
15 opcodes, addresses, or data payloads; a SPI controller simply knows to send or
16 receive bytes (Tx and Rx). Therefore, we must define a new layering scheme under
17 which the controller driver is aware of the opcodes, addressing, and other
18 details of the SPI NOR protocol.
20 Part II - How does the framework work?
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23 This framework just adds a new layer between the MTD and the SPI bus driver.
24 With this new layer, the SPI NOR controller driver does not depend on the
27 Before this framework, the layer is like::
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37 After this framework, the layer is like:
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48 With the SPI NOR controller driver (Freescale QuadSPI), it looks like:
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57 Part III - How can drivers use the framework?
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60 The main API is spi_nor_scan(). Before you call the hook, a driver should
61 initialize the necessary fields for spi_nor{}. Please see
62 drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c for detail. Please also refer to spi-fsl-qspi.c
63 when you want to write a new driver for a SPI NOR controller.
64 Another API is spi_nor_restore(), this is used to restore the status of SPI
65 flash chip such as addressing mode. Call it whenever detach the driver from
66 device or reboot the system.