Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] dt-bindings: spi: cadence-quadspi: document "cdns,qspi-nor-ver-00-10"

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On 08/12/21 05:45PM, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 9:51 PM Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 03/12/21 12:17PM, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
> > > The QSPI controller on Intel's SoCFPGA platform does not implement the
> > > CQSPI_REG_WR_COMPLETION_CTRL register, thus a write to this register
> > > results in a crash.
> > >
> > > The module/revision ID is written in the MODULE_ID register. For this
> > > variance, bits 23-8 is 0x0010.
> >
> > When I looked at your original patches I was under the impression that
> > this was a SoCFPGA specific thing and did not apply to other
> > implementation of the IP in general.
> >
> > If this is indeed a generic thing and we can detect it via the MODULE_ID
> > register [0], then why not just read that register at probe time and
> > apply this quirk based on the ID? Why then do we need a separate
> > compatible at all?
> >
> > [0] I would like to see it stated explicitly somewhere that version
> > 0x0010 does not support the WR_COMPLETION_CTRL register.
> >
> 
> I cannot for sure confirm that this condition applies to only 0x0010
> version of the
> IP. I can verify that the IP that is in all 3 generations of SoCFPGA
> devices, all have
> MODULE_ID value of 0x0010 and all do not have the WR_COMPLETION_CTRL
> register implemented.

I agree with Rob here. If you are not sure that this is a generic IP 
thing then you should not use a generic compatible.

> 
> I'm almost certain this feature is not SoCFPGA specific, but
> since I only had SoCFPGA hardware, that was my initial patch. I made the mistake
> of not CC'ing the devicetree maintainers until I sent the DTS binding
> patch change,
> and he rightly suggested making the binding something more generic.
> 
> I do like your idea of making a determination in the driver without
> being dependent
> on a dts binding. I'd like to know the impetus behind your original
> patch of removing the
> dependency of "if (f_pdata->dtr)"  for the write to the WR_COMPLETION_CTRL
> register? Perhaps there's some other common property that we can key
> off for why the register
> is not implemented?

Please read the comment just above that line ;-)

  /*
   * SPI NAND flashes require the address of the status register to be
   * passed in the Read SR command. Also, some SPI NOR flashes like the
   * cypress Semper flash expect a 4-byte dummy address in the Read SR
   * command in DTR mode.
   *
   * But this controller does not support address phase in the Read SR
   * command when doing auto-HW polling. So, disable write completion
   * polling on the controller's side. spinand and spi-nor will take
   * care of polling the status register.
   */

-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
Texas Instruments Inc.



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