On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Huang Shijie <b32955@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:36:08PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote: >> >> My basic question is like I have a qspi spi controller in my SOC and I >> >> designed two boards B1 and B2 >> > >> > okay. >> > >> >> B1 with quad spi controller connected with non-flash as a slave and B2 >> >> with quad spi controller connected >> >> with quad flash as a slave. >> > You can use the framework for B2. But for B1, you should not use the framework, >> > since this framework is just for the SPI-NOR. If you do not connected with >> > a NOR, i think it's better to code another driver for your controller. >> >> Means we have two separate controller drivers for same controller one >> with spi-nor and >> another with spi is it? > Take drivers/spi/spi-imx.c for example, if you connect a NOR to it, you only > need to add a NOR device node in the device tree. In the probe, it will call > the m25p80.c to probe the NOR device. > > But if we connect other device to it. you should set another device node for it. > > I am not sure if your controller driver can works as the spi-imx.c My question here was - this new framework suggest to write a two different controller drivers one is for non spi-nor and spi-nor models? do you agree that? And also one important note from your design was spi-nor mode is completely bypassing Linux spi core is that the good idea? -- Thanks, Jagan. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
