flash: at91samd: flash write code cleaning 45/3045/3
authorTomas Vanek <vanekt@fbl.cz>
Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:49:17 +0000 (12:49 +0100)
committerSpencer Oliver <spen@spen-soft.co.uk>
Fri, 20 Nov 2015 18:26:58 +0000 (18:26 +0000)
commit26a65f4f13ffda5272c4d6afa37e249d771a37b7
tree644ccc25482ca6ee15aeb6347812c9cbf8903da7
parentb5fa1e4d7779ca3a7f3de7d5cd3f0732ec8a11ff
flash: at91samd: flash write code cleaning

SAMD driver suffered from following problems:

1) Flash was erased as an integral part of flash write.
It was not documented so with usual workflow it resulted
in erasing flash twice (and reducing flash lifespan)
and in almost double flashing time.

2) Sector erase was silently skipped if "is_erased" flag was set.
"is_erased" logic was not reliable, e.g. when a row write
was aborted after successful write of some pages, sector was
still considered as erased. "is_erased" flag could not
cope with flash writes from a user program.

3) Writing of a block with start address unaligned to a flash page
resulted in failed assert and OpenOCD abort.

4) Disabling cache in bit 18 of 16-bit halfword never worked.
MCU implements cache invalidate in hardware so there is no need
to take care about. This bug was reported by Tony DiCola.

New code does not erase flash in write operation.
Instead it traditionally relies on erasing flash beforehand.
"is_erased" logic and cache disabling is completely removed.
It simplifies write procedure a lot and flash write is now faster.

The change partly solves ticket #109 SAMD/SAM4L driver doubles flash erase.

Change-Id: I582b497d01a351575533a1f8c9810a4413be0216
Signed-off-by: Tomas Vanek <vanekt@fbl.cz>
Reviewed-on: http://openocd.zylin.com/3045
Tested-by: jenkins
Reviewed-by: Spencer Oliver <spen@spen-soft.co.uk>
src/flash/nor/at91samd.c

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