Commit 4ab13489 authored by Mika Westerberg's avatar Mika Westerberg Committed by Mark Brown

Documentation / MTD: Rename the intel-spi driver

Since the driver is renamed (and moved) update the BIOS upgrade guide
accordingly from intel-spi to spi-intel. Keep the guide under MTD
documentation because this is pretty much still about MTD and SPI-NOR.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMauro Lima <mauro.lima@eclypsium.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220209122706.42439-4-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
parent e23e5a05
......@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ Memory Technology Device (MTD)
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
intel-spi
spi-intel
nand_ecc
spi-nor
==============================
Upgrading BIOS using intel-spi
Upgrading BIOS using spi-intel
==============================
Many Intel CPUs like Baytrail and Braswell include SPI serial flash host
......@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ avoid accidental (or on purpose) overwrite of the content.
Not all manufacturers protect the SPI serial flash, mainly because it
allows upgrading the BIOS image directly from an OS.
The intel-spi driver makes it possible to read and write the SPI serial
The spi-intel driver makes it possible to read and write the SPI serial
flash, if certain protection bits are not set and locked. If it finds
any of them set, the whole MTD device is made read-only to prevent
partial overwrites. By default the driver exposes SPI serial flash
contents as read-only but it can be changed from kernel command line,
passing "intel-spi.writeable=1".
passing "spi_intel.writeable=1".
Please keep in mind that overwriting the BIOS image on SPI serial flash
might render the machine unbootable and requires special equipment like
......@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Linux.
serial flash. Distros like Debian and Fedora have this prepackaged with
name "mtd-utils".
3) Add "intel-spi.writeable=1" to the kernel command line and reboot
3) Add "spi_intel.writeable=1" to the kernel command line and reboot
the board (you can also reload the driver passing "writeable=1" as
module parameter to modprobe).
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