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author | Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com> | 2013-06-18 17:47:56 -0400 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-06-18 18:42:15 -0400 |
commit | 6007b1bd0f752a5c022f7944c65fb96c39d6db3d (patch) | |
tree | d0b3074fc8e0589603dbbe4ebc8a3b5c52287842 /Documentation | |
parent | 056d83f3c30c398f14eb879f1d1707e3a7808f4a (diff) |
FMC: add a driver to write mezzanine EEPROM
This driver allows to reprogram the EEPROM in a mezzanine, to store
its own identifiers during manufacturing or to save other useful data.
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
Acked-by: Juan David Gonzalez Cobas <dcobas@cern.ch>
Acked-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Acked-by: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fmc/00-INDEX | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fmc/fmc-write-eeprom.txt | 125 |
2 files changed, 128 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/fmc/00-INDEX b/Documentation/fmc/00-INDEX index c22d6873fd08..177c3e4a9511 100644 --- a/Documentation/fmc/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/fmc/00-INDEX | |||
@@ -30,3 +30,6 @@ fmc-fakedev.txt | |||
30 | 30 | ||
31 | fmc-trivial.txt | 31 | fmc-trivial.txt |
32 | - about drivers/fmc/fmc-trivial.ko | 32 | - about drivers/fmc/fmc-trivial.ko |
33 | |||
34 | fmc-write-eeprom.txt | ||
35 | - about drivers/fmc/fmc-write-eeprom.ko | ||
diff --git a/Documentation/fmc/fmc-write-eeprom.txt b/Documentation/fmc/fmc-write-eeprom.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..44a3bc678bf0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/fmc/fmc-write-eeprom.txt | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@ | |||
1 | fmc-write-eeprom | ||
2 | ================ | ||
3 | |||
4 | This module is designed to load a binary file from /lib/firmware and to | ||
5 | write it to the internal EEPROM of the mezzanine card. This driver uses | ||
6 | the `busid' generic parameter. | ||
7 | |||
8 | Overwriting the EEPROM is not something you should do daily, and it is | ||
9 | expected to only happen during manufacturing. For this reason, the | ||
10 | module makes it unlikely for the random user to change a working EEPROM. | ||
11 | |||
12 | The module takes the following measures: | ||
13 | |||
14 | * It accepts a `file=' argument (within /lib/firmware) and if no | ||
15 | such argument is received, it doesn't write anything to EEPROM | ||
16 | (i.e. there is no default file name). | ||
17 | |||
18 | * If the file name ends with `.bin' it is written verbatim starting | ||
19 | at offset 0. | ||
20 | |||
21 | * If the file name ends with `.tlv' it is interpreted as | ||
22 | type-length-value (i.e., it allows writev(2)-like operation). | ||
23 | |||
24 | * If the file name doesn't match any of the patterns above, it is | ||
25 | ignored and no write is performed. | ||
26 | |||
27 | * Only cards listed with `busid=' are written to. If no busid is | ||
28 | specified, no programming is done (and the probe function of the | ||
29 | driver will fail). | ||
30 | |||
31 | |||
32 | Each TLV tuple is formatted in this way: the header is 5 bytes, | ||
33 | followed by data. The first byte is `w' for write, the next two bytes | ||
34 | represent the address, in little-endian byte order, and the next two | ||
35 | represent the data length, in little-endian order. The length does not | ||
36 | include the header (it is the actual number of bytes to be written). | ||
37 | |||
38 | This is a real example: that writes 5 bytes at position 0x110: | ||
39 | |||
40 | spusa.root# od -t x1 -Ax /lib/firmware/try.tlv | ||
41 | 000000 77 10 01 05 00 30 31 32 33 34 | ||
42 | 00000a | ||
43 | spusa.root# insmod /tmp/fmc-write-eeprom.ko busid=0x0200 file=try.tlv | ||
44 | [19983.391498] spec 0000:03:00.0: write 5 bytes at 0x0110 | ||
45 | [19983.414615] spec 0000:03:00.0: write_eeprom: success | ||
46 | |||
47 | Please note that you'll most likely want to use SDBFS to build your | ||
48 | EEPROM image, at least if your mezzanines are being used in the White | ||
49 | Rabbit environment. For this reason the TLV format is not expected to | ||
50 | be used much and is not expected to be developed further. | ||
51 | |||
52 | If you want to try reflashing fake EEPROM devices, you can use the | ||
53 | fmc-fakedev.ko module (see *note fmc-fakedev::). Whenever you change | ||
54 | the image starting at offset 0, it will deregister and register again | ||
55 | after two seconds. Please note, however, that if fmc-write-eeprom is | ||
56 | still loaded, the system will associate it to the new device, which | ||
57 | will be reprogrammed and thus will be unloaded after two seconds. The | ||
58 | following example removes the module after it reflashed fakedev the | ||
59 | first time. | ||
60 | |||
61 | spusa.root# insmod fmc-fakedev.ko | ||
62 | [ 72.984733] fake-fmc: Manufacturer: fake-vendor | ||
63 | [ 72.989434] fake-fmc: Product name: fake-design-for-testing | ||
64 | spusa.root# insmod fmc-write-eeprom.ko busid=0 file=fdelay-eeprom.bin; \ | ||
65 | rmmod fmc-write-eeprom | ||
66 | [ 130.874098] fake-fmc: Matching a generic driver (no ID) | ||
67 | [ 130.887845] fake-fmc: programming 6155 bytes | ||
68 | [ 130.894567] fake-fmc: write_eeprom: success | ||
69 | [ 132.895794] fake-fmc: Manufacturer: CERN | ||
70 | [ 132.899872] fake-fmc: Product name: FmcDelay1ns4cha | ||
71 | |||
72 | |||
73 | Writing to the EEPROM | ||
74 | ===================== | ||
75 | |||
76 | Once you have created a binary file for your EEPROM, you can write it | ||
77 | to the storage medium using the fmc-write-eeprom (See *note | ||
78 | fmc-write-eeprom::, while relying on a carrier driver. The procedure | ||
79 | here shown here uses the SPEC driver | ||
80 | (`http://www.ohwr.org/projects/spec-sw'). | ||
81 | |||
82 | The example assumes no driver is already loaded (actually, I unloaded | ||
83 | them by hand as everything loads automatically at boot time after you | ||
84 | installed the modules), and shows kernel messages together with | ||
85 | commands. Here the prompt is spusa.root# and two SPEC cards are plugged | ||
86 | in the system. | ||
87 | |||
88 | spusa.root# insmod fmc.ko | ||
89 | spusa.root# insmod spec.ko | ||
90 | [13972.382818] spec 0000:02:00.0: probe for device 0002:0000 | ||
91 | [13972.392773] spec 0000:02:00.0: got file "fmc/spec-init.bin", 1484404 (0x16a674) bytes | ||
92 | [13972.591388] spec 0000:02:00.0: FPGA programming successful | ||
93 | [13972.883011] spec 0000:02:00.0: EEPROM has no FRU information | ||
94 | [13972.888719] spec 0000:02:00.0: No device_id filled, using index | ||
95 | [13972.894676] spec 0000:02:00.0: No mezzanine_name found | ||
96 | [13972.899863] /home/rubini/wip/spec-sw/kernel/spec-gpio.c - spec_gpio_init | ||
97 | [13972.906578] spec 0000:04:00.0: probe for device 0004:0000 | ||
98 | [13972.916509] spec 0000:04:00.0: got file "fmc/spec-init.bin", 1484404 (0x16a674) bytes | ||
99 | [13973.115096] spec 0000:04:00.0: FPGA programming successful | ||
100 | [13973.401798] spec 0000:04:00.0: EEPROM has no FRU information | ||
101 | [13973.407474] spec 0000:04:00.0: No device_id filled, using index | ||
102 | [13973.413417] spec 0000:04:00.0: No mezzanine_name found | ||
103 | [13973.418600] /home/rubini/wip/spec-sw/kernel/spec-gpio.c - spec_gpio_init | ||
104 | spusa.root# ls /sys/bus/fmc/devices | ||
105 | fmc-0000 fmc-0001 | ||
106 | spusa.root# insmod fmc-write-eeprom.ko busid=0x0200 file=fdelay-eeprom.bin | ||
107 | [14103.966259] spec 0000:02:00.0: Matching an generic driver (no ID) | ||
108 | [14103.975519] spec 0000:02:00.0: programming 6155 bytes | ||
109 | [14126.373762] spec 0000:02:00.0: write_eeprom: success | ||
110 | [14126.378770] spec 0000:04:00.0: Matching an generic driver (no ID) | ||
111 | [14126.384903] spec 0000:04:00.0: fmc_write_eeprom: no filename given: not programming | ||
112 | [14126.392600] fmc_write_eeprom: probe of fmc-0001 failed with error -2 | ||
113 | |||
114 | Reading back the EEPROM | ||
115 | ======================= | ||
116 | |||
117 | In order to read back the binary content of the EEPROM of your | ||
118 | mezzanine device, the bus creates a read-only sysfs file called eeprom | ||
119 | for each mezzanine it knows about: | ||
120 | |||
121 | spusa.root# cd /sys/bus/fmc/devices; ls -l */eeprom | ||
122 | -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Apr 9 16:53 FmcDelay1ns4cha-f001/eeprom | ||
123 | -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Apr 9 17:19 fake-design-for-testing-f002/eeprom | ||
124 | -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Apr 9 17:19 fake-design-for-testing-f003/eeprom | ||
125 | -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Apr 9 17:19 fmc-f004/eeprom | ||