1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
3 # Copyright (C) 2017 NXP Semiconductors
4 # Copyright (C) 2017 Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
9 NVM Express (NVMe) is a register level interface that allows host software to
10 communicate with a non-volatile memory subsystem. This interface is optimized
11 for enterprise and client solid state drives, typically attached to the PCI
12 express interface. It is a scalable host controller interface designed to
13 address the needs of enterprise and client systems that utilize PCI express
14 based solid state drives (SSD). The interface provides optimized command
15 submission and completion paths. It includes support for parallel operation by
16 supporting up to 64K I/O queues with up to 64K commands per I/O queue.
18 The device is comprised of some number of controllers, where each controller
19 is comprised of some number of namespaces, where each namespace is comprised
20 of some number of logical blocks. A namespace is a quantity of non-volatile
21 memory that is formatted into logical blocks. An NVMe namespace is equivalent
22 to a SCSI LUN. Each namespace is operated as an independent "device".
26 There is an NVMe uclass driver (driver name "nvme"), an NVMe host controller
27 driver (driver name "nvme") and an NVMe namespace block driver (driver name
28 "nvme-blk"). The host controller driver is supposed to probe the hardware and
29 do necessary initialization to put the controller into a ready state at which
30 it is able to scan all available namespaces attached to it. Scanning namespace
31 is triggered by the NVMe uclass driver and the actual work is done in the NVMe
32 namespace block driver.
36 It only support basic block read/write functions in the NVMe driver.
40 CONFIG_NVME Enable NVMe device support
41 CONFIG_CMD_NVME Enable basic NVMe commands
45 To use an NVMe hard disk from U-Boot shell, a 'nvme scan' command needs to
46 be executed for all NVMe hard disks attached to the NVMe controller to be
49 To list all of the NVMe hard disks, try:
52 Device 0: Vendor: 0x8086 Rev: 8DV10131 Prod: CVFT535600LS400BGN
54 Capacity: 381554.0 MB = 372.6 GB (781422768 x 512)
56 and print out detailed information for controller and namespaces via:
60 Raw block read/write to can be done via the 'nvme read/write' commands:
62 => nvme read a0000000 0 11000
64 => tftp 80000000 /tftpboot/kernel.itb
65 => nvme write 80000000 0 11000
67 Of course, file system command can be used on the NVMe hard disk as well:
75 => fatload nvme 0:1 a0000000 /kernel.itb
78 Testing NVMe with QEMU x86
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80 QEMU supports NVMe emulation and we can test NVMe driver with QEMU x86 running
81 U-Boot. Please see README.x86 for how to build u-boot.rom image for QEMU x86.
83 Example command line to call QEMU x86 below with emulated NVMe device:
84 $ ./qemu-system-i386 -drive file=nvme.img,if=none,id=drv0 -device nvme,drive=drv0,serial=QEMUNVME0001 -bios u-boot.rom