RE: [Help] I want to know how to make an image for w25q256JV flash memory.

[<pooky@sysmate.com>]

Dear Patrick,

Thank you very much for your quick response.

Houn-Joung Rim


-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Williams <patrick@stwcx.xyz> 
Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 2:34 AM
To: pooky@sysmate.com
Cc: openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [Help] I want to know how to make an image for w25q256JV flash
memory.

On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 12:00:42PM +0900, pooky@sysmate.com wrote:
 
> I am developing a motherboard using AST2500 chip using openbmc. 
> It is booting with w25q256JV flash memory attached to the AST2500 chip.
> I want to know how to make an image for w25q256JV flash memory.

That chip is relatively small for our codebase (32MB).  We still have some
machines running that size but we typically have to reduce the features in
order to make it fit.

Building an image doesn't really concern itself with the particular model of
chip but the size.  The more important thing for your system is all the
configuration information you need to provide about your motherboard so that
the software knows how to operate the hardware.

In our repository you'll see a lot of 'meta-*' subdirectories.  Most of
these are the Yocto layers for machines designed by various companies.
These are the configuration data on those machines.  You may want to take
one that looks similar in design and start with that.

Specifically on your question regarding this chip, the only thing we really
need configured is the FLASH_SIZE variable.  This will build the 32MB image
that can fit into your chip.  Nothing else should care about the specific
model because u-boot and Linux should use the JEDEC model information to
determine the size of that chip when they access it.  Here are a number of
machines configured with a 32MB flash layout:

```
$ git grep 'FLASH_SIZE = "32768"'
meta-amd/meta-ethanolx/conf/machine/ethanolx.conf:FLASH_SIZE = "32768"
meta-asrock/meta-e3c246d4i/conf/machine/e3c246d4i.conf:FLASH_SIZE = "32768"
meta-facebook/meta-tiogapass/conf/machine/tiogapass.conf:FLASH_SIZE =
"32768"
meta-facebook/meta-yosemitev2/conf/machine/yosemitev2.conf:FLASH_SIZE =
"32768"
meta-ibm/meta-palmetto/conf/machine/palmetto.conf:FLASH_SIZE = "32768"
meta-inspur/meta-on5263m5/conf/machine/on5263m5.conf:FLASH_SIZE = "32768"
meta-intel-openbmc/meta-s2600wf/conf/machine/s2600wf.conf:FLASH_SIZE =
"32768"
meta-nuvoton/conf/machine/evb-npcm750.conf:FLASH_SIZE = "32768"
meta-quanta/meta-gsj/conf/machine/gsj.conf:FLASH_SIZE = "32768"
meta-quanta/meta-olympus-nuvoton/conf/machine/olympus-nuvoton.conf:FLASH_SIZ
E = "32768"
meta-quanta/meta-q71l/conf/machine/quanta-q71l.conf:FLASH_SIZE = "32768"
meta-supermicro/meta-x11spi/conf/machine/x11spi.conf:FLASH_SIZE = "32768"
meta-tyan/meta-s7106/conf/machine/s7106.conf:FLASH_SIZE = "32768"
meta-tyan/meta-s8036/conf/machine/s8036.conf:FLASH_SIZE = "32768"
```

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Patrick Williams