Paul, Harvey, On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:48:48 +0100 Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:31:12AM +0100, James Hogan wrote: > > > >> + > > > >> +&nemc { > > > >> + status = "okay"; > > > >> + > > > >> + nand: nand@1 { > > > >> + compatible = "ingenic,jz4780-nand"; > > > > > > > > Isn't the NAND a micron part? This doesn't seem right. Is the device > > > > driver and binding already accepted upstream with that compatible > > > > string? > > > > > > This is the compatible string for the JZ4780 NAND driver, this patch > > > is part of the series adding that. Detection of the NAND part is > > > handled by the MTD subsystem. > > > > Right (didn't spot that it was part of a series). > > > > The node appears to describe the NAND interface itself, i.e. a part of > > the SoC, so should be in the SoC dtsi file, with overrides in the board > > file if necessary for it to work with a particular NAND part > > (potentially utilising status="disabled"). Would you agree? > > Hi James, > > The "nemc" node there is for the Nand & External Memory Controller which > is a hardware block inside the SoC. It has 6 banks (ie. 6 chip select > pins, each associated with a different address range, that connect to > different devices). NAND flash is one such possible device, but a board > could connect it to any of the 6 chip selects, or banks. To represent > that in the SoC dtsi you'd want to have 6 NAND nodes, each disabled by > default, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Other, non-NAND > devices can connect to the NEMC too - for example the ethernet > controller on the CI20 is connected to one bank. > > The NAND device nodes are sort of a mix of describing the NAND flash > (ie. Micron part as you point out) and its connections & properties, the > way the NEMC should be used to interact with it alongside the BCH block, > and the configuration for the NEMC such as timing parameters. > > I imagine the most semantically correct means of describing it would > probably be for the compatible string to reflect the Micron NAND part, > and the NEMC driver to pick up on the relevant properties of its child > nodes for configuring timings, whether the device is NAND etc. However > the handling of registering NAND devices with MTD would probably then > have to be part of the NEMC driver, which feels a bit off too. Another solution would be to describe both the NAND controller and the NAND chip in the DT (with the NAND chip being a chip of the NAND controller). Actually this is already what other binding are doing [1][2]. I know those bindings are representing NAND controllers which can interface with more than one NAND chip, but I think that even in the 1:1 case it would make it clearer to represent both the NAND chip and the NAND controller. In your case this would give the following representation +&nemc { + status = "okay"; + + nandc: nand-controller@1 { + compatible = "ingenic,jz4780-nand"; + reg = <1 0 0x1000000>; + #address-cells = <1>; + #size-cells = <0>; + + ingenic,bch-controller = <&bch>; + + nand@0 { + nand-ecc-mode = "hw"; + nand-on-flash-bbt; + nand-ecc-size = <1024>; + nand-ecc-strength = <24>; + + #address-cells = <2>; + #size-cells = <2>; + + partition@0 { + label = "u-boot-spl"; + reg = <0x0 0x0 0x0 0x800000>; + }; + /* ... */ + + }; + }; +}; Best Regards, Boris [1]http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/brcm,brcmnand.txt#L119 [2]http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/sunxi-nand.txt#L28 > > Thanks, > Paul > > ______________________________________________________ > Linux MTD discussion mailing list > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/ -- Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html