On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 12:49:10AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
While thinking about adding SPI support to flashrom, I came across the directory linux/drivers/mtd/maps/ in a recent kernel tree and found drivers for flash on
- Nvidia CK804
- AMD 76X
- Intel ICHx
These are at best generic, ie. there's no specific support for SPI in them. Now, MTD does have a driver for some SST SPI chips, in mtd/devices/m25p80.c
Should we try to use the Linux MTD framework before hacking flashrom?
Worth a shot, but..
If so, can somebody test? My machines either run too old kernels (production router) or the chipset doesn't appear in the list.
..there is only support for a few SPI masters in Linux.
An SPI driver for each chipset needs to be written before MTD can talk to the flash. The same code has to be written for flashrom anyway so it could just as well go to both places.
But, trouble comes if some of the chipsets aren't really generic SPI masters but rather specialized for SPI flash. I seem to remember reading some PDF (ICH7/8?) where the southbridge SPI interface wasn't completely generic. :\
//Peter