On 2/4/2016 4:55 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Thursday, February 04, 2016 at 08:38:47 AM, Vignesh R wrote:
>> On 02/02/2016 02:43 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>> On Monday, February 01, 2016 at 10:03:35 PM, Brian Norris wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 03:39:17AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 03:26:08 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 05:34:45AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>>>> All these SoCs should be capable of tweaking the block to fit their
>>>>> needs by just the DT properties. I believe they differ only in the
>>>>> FIFO depth and sometimes someone is greedy and uses 4:16 CS
>>>>> multiplexer, which is an external passive component, but that's all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Would we need soc-specific compatible strings if this is the case?
>>>>
>>>> It's nice when most things can be supported with a small set of DT
>>>> properties, as you've done. But IUIC, I think it's usually good practice
>>>> to define and use SoC-specific (or maybe SoC family) compatible strings
>>>> in the docs and DTS files, in addition to the generic one, in case there
>>>> are future quirks that need to be handled. Note that you don't actually
>>>> have to use these in the driver yet, but it's good to have a definition.
>>>>
>>>> So you can, today, have:
>>>> foo@xxxx {
>>>>
>>>> compatible = "ti,baz-12345", "cdns,qspi-nor";
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> And we have the option to pick up "ti,baz-12345" in the Linux driver *if
>>>> needed.*
>>
>> The support for TI SoC that has this IP is not in upstream yet. I will
>> add TI-specific compatible later. It will be:
>>
>> foo@xxxx {
>> compatible = "ti,k2g-qspi", "cdns,qspi-nor";
>> ...
>> };
>
> Do you expect any specifics which cannot be handled by the current bindings btw?
> In my socfpga case, the compatible strings will be probably:
>
Yeah, there is delay(of few ns) required between writing to
INDIRECTWR_START bit and actually writing data to flash(i.e writesl()
call). This is specific to TI K2G SoC and needs to be tied to the new
binding.
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