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* dfu: defer parsing of device string to IO backendStephen Warren2014-08-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Devices are not all identified by a single integer. To support this, defer the parsing of the device string to the IO backed, so that it can apply the appropriate rules. SPI devices are specified as controller:chip_select. SPI/SF support will be added soon. MMC devices can also be specified as controller[.hwpart][:partition] in many commands, although we don't support that syntax in DFU. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
* dfu: fix some issues with reads/uploadsStephen Warren2014-08-091-5/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | DFU read support appears to rely upon dfu->read_medium() updating the passed-by-reference len parameter to indicate the remaining size available for reading. dfu_read_medium_mmc() never does this, and the implementation of dfu_read_medium_nand() will only work if called just once; it hard-codes the value to the total size of the NAND device irrespective of read offset. I believe that overloading dfu->read_medium() is confusing. As such, this patch introduces a new function dfu->get_medium_size() which can be used to explicitly find out the medium size, and nothing else. dfu_read() is modified to use this function to set the initial value for dfu->r_left, rather than attempting to use the side-effects of dfu->read_medium() for this purpose. Due to this change, dfu_read() must initially set dfu->b_left to 0, since no data has been read. dfu_read_buffer_fill() must also be modified not to adjust dfu->r_left when simply copying data from dfu->i_buf_start to the upload request buffer. r_left represents the amount of data left to be read from HW. That value is not affected by the memcpy(), but only by calls to dfu->read_medium(). After this change, I can read from either a 4MB or 1.5MB chunk of a 4MB eMMC boot partion with CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE==1MB. Without this change, attempting to do that would result in DFU read returning no data at all due to r_left never being set. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
* dfu: ram supportAfzal Mohammed2013-09-241-0/+77
DFU spec mentions it as a method to upgrade firmware (software stored in writable non-volatile memory). It also says other potential uses of DFU is beyond scope of the spec. Here such a beyond the scope use is being attempted - directly pumping binary images from host via USB to RAM. This facility is a developer centric one in that it gives advantage over upgrading non-volatile memory for testing new images every time during development and/or testing. Directly putting image onto RAM would speed up upgrade process. This and convenience was the initial thoughts that led to doing this, speed improvement over MMC was only 1 second though - 6 sec on RAM as opposed to 7 sec on MMC in beagle bone, perhaps enabling cache and/or optimizing DFU framework to avoid multiple copy for ram (if worth) may help, and on other platforms and other boot media like NAND maybe improvement would be higher. And for a platform that doesn't yet have proper DFU suppport for non-volatile media's, DFU to RAM can be used. Another minor advantage would be to increase life of mmc/nand as it would be less used during development/testing. usage: <image name> ram <start address> <size> eg. kernel ram 0x81000000 0x1000000 Downloading images to RAM using DFU is not something new, this is acheived in openmoko also. DFU on RAM can be used for extracting RAM contents to host using dfu upload. Perhaps this can be extended to io for squeezing out register dump through usb, if it is worth. Signed-off-by: Afzal Mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com> Cc: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de> Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> Cc: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com> Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com> Cc: Gerhard Sittig <gsi@denx.de> Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> Acked-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com> Acked-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
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