Besides software controlled SPI transfers (UMA, "user mode access"), FIU
also supports a 16 MiB mapping window per attached flash chip.
This patch implements direct mapped read access, to speed up flash reads.
Without direct mapping:
# time dd if=/dev/mtd0ro of=dump bs=1M
16+0 records in
16+0 records out
real 1m 47.74s
user 0m 0.00s
sys 1m 47.75s
With direct mapping:
# time dd if=/dev/mtd0ro of=dump bs=1M
16+0 records in
16+0 records out
real 0m 30.81s
user 0m 0.00s
sys 0m 30.81s
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221124191400.287918-4-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
The Flash Interface Unit (FIU) is the SPI flash controller in the
Nuvoton WPCM450 BMC SoC. It supports four chip selects, and direct
(memory-mapped) access to 16 MiB per chip. Larger flash chips can be
accessed by software-defined SPI transfers.
The FIU in newer NPCM7xx SoCs is not compatible with the WPCM450 FIU.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221124191400.287918-3-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
