Get SPI flash device node to appear on Edge-V

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On Ubuntu on the Edge-V, how do I get the on-board SPI flash to appear as a /dev/spidevX.Y? There are some instructions around here to do it for the VIM SBCs and for, I think, the secondary SPI interface exposed through the GPIO pins, but none for the primary SPI flash. /sys/class/spidev is empty.

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/dev/spidevX.Y is not for spi flash, it is for the spi interface on the 40 pin headers.

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Then what device node does the on-board SPI flash use?

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And what is the chip that is used for SPI flash?

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How you get the on-board SPI flash to appear?

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It seems need to modify the source code to enable the SPI Flash, could you tell me what you want to do with the SPI Flash?

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I want to enable write protection.

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Hello @Melab

Please follow the steps below to upgrade the kernel to enable mtd devices.

cd /tmp/
wget https://dl.khadas.com/.test/edge1/linux-dtb-rockchip-4.4_1.4.2_arm64.deb
wget https://dl.khadas.com/.test/edge1/linux-image-rockchip-4.4_1.4.2_arm64.deb
wget https://dl.khadas.com/.test/edge1/linux-headers-rockchip-4.4_1.4.2_arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-dtb-rockchip-4.4_1.4.2_arm64.deb linux-image-rockchip-4.4_1.4.2_arm64.deb linux-headers-rockchip-4.4_1.4.2_arm64.deb 
sync
sudo reboot

After reboot you will find the spi flash mtd device node.

khadas@Khadas:~$ ls -al /dev/mtd*
crw------- 1 root root 90, 0 Feb 14 06:38 /dev/mtd0
crw------- 1 root root 90, 1 Feb 14 06:38 /dev/mtd0ro
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 31, 0 Feb 14 06:38 /dev/mtdblock0
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I am on kernel version 5.17 and those devices exist. The problem is that I don’t think they provide the interface used to enable the SPI chip’s write protection.

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We don’t maintain 5.17 anymore, we will enable spi flash in next 6.x release.

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When can that be expected?

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Hello @Melab

We will make it work for more recently 6.x kernel, but not 5.17.

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I get that, but how long will the wait be? One month? Two months?