Hi Boris,
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Boris Brezillon
<boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think the MTD partition -> nvmem connection could benefit to non-OTP
> partitions too.
Yeah, I thought about that, too. Would you use the _read, and _write
callbacks in that case?
> So, how about defining the nvmem regions under the partition nodes,
> like that:
>
> flash@0 {
> partitions {
> compatible = "fixed-partitions";
> #address-cells = <1>;
> #size-cells = <1>;
>
> partition@0 {
> label = "uboot-spl";
> reg = <0x0 0xe0000>;
> };
>
> /* ... */
>
> partition@X{
> label = "factory-data-part";
> reg = <0x200000 0x100000>;
> #address-cells = <1>;
> #size-cells = <1>;
>
> product: nvmem@0 {
> reg = <0x0 0x2>;
> };
>
> revision: nvmem@3 {
> reg = <0x3 0x2>;
> };
> };
> };
>
> otp-partitions {
> compatible = "fixed-partitions";
> #address-cells = <1>;
> #size-cells = <1>;
>
> partition@X{
> label = "factory-data-part";
> reg = <0x0 0x40>;
> #address-cells = <1>;
> #size-cells = <1>;
>
> product: nvmem@0 {
> reg = <0x0 0x2>;
> };
>
> revision: nvmem@3 {
> reg = <0x3 0x2>;
> };
> };
> };
> };
>
> I know this requires changing the implementation to select the
> appropriate nvmem wrapper to use depending on whether we're interfacing
> with an OTP area or a regular one, but that should be doable.
The implementation still needs work anyways, so I might as well add
this to my list ...
Would you do the nvmem mapping always, or conditionalize on a flag in
the dt node like 'nvmem-export'?
Thanks for the feedback,
Moritz
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