RE: [PATCH 1/3] mtd: spi-nor: Add Octal mode support for mt35xu512aba

[Yogesh Narayan Gaur <yogeshnarayan.gaur@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Boris,

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> From: Boris Brezillon [mailto:boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx]
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> Cc: Vignesh R <vigneshr@xxxxxx>; Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx>; Rob
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mtd: spi-nor: Add Octal mode support for
> mt35xu512aba
> 
> +Julien, Zhengxunli and Mason from Macronix
> 
> Hi Yogesh,
> 
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 06:51:41 +0000
> Yogesh Narayan Gaur <yogeshnarayan.gaur@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Vignesh,
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Vignesh R [mailto:vigneshr@xxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 10:26 PM
> > > To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Marek Vasut
> > > <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx>; Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>; Yogesh Narayan Gaur
> > > <yogeshnarayan.gaur@xxxxxxx>; Linux ARM Mailing List <linux-arm-
> > > kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; linux-mtd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> > > devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Vignesh R
> > > <vigneshr@xxxxxx>
> > > Subject: [PATCH 1/3] mtd: spi-nor: Add Octal mode support for
> > > mt35xu512aba
> > >
> > > Micron's mt35xu512aba flash is an Octal flash that has x8 IO lines.
> > > It supports read/write over 8 IO lines simulatenously. Add support
> > > for Octal read mode for Micron mt35xu512aba.
> > > Unfortunately, this flash is only complaint to SFDP JESD216B and
> > > does not seem to support newer JESD216C standard that provides auto
> > > detection of Octal mode capabilities and opcodes. Therefore, this
> > > capability is manually added using new SPI_NOR_OCTAL_READ flag.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for sending the patch-set of adding octal support.
> > If possible, can you share the MT35x datasheet?
> >
> > I also have the patch ready in which I have added support for Read (1-1-8 and
> 1-8-8) protocol and Write (1-1-8 and 1-8-8).
> > Also have added support of Octal in driver/spi/spi.c framework.
> >
> > IMO, we would collaborate our patches.
> 
> Looks like we are of stepping on each others toes here (see this branch [1]). I
> guess it's not a problem if we agree on who is working on what.
> 
> Yogesh, you already sent "spi: add flags for octal I/O data transfer" [3] which is
> only adding the new OCTAL flags but is not patching spi.c and spi-mem.c to take
> those new flags into account. Here is my version of this patch [2] (it's still
> missing an update of SPI_MEM_MAX_BUSWIDTH). Let me know what you want
> to do (rework your version to address the problem or take mine).
> 
I haven't said that I have sent the patches. My patches are ready and needed to be sent for review.
In these patches,  I am adding support for X-X-X protocol for octal support and integrating them with spi  and flash m25p80 interface.

Would send the patches by today evening for review.

Regards
Yogesh Gaur

> Regarding other patches in [2], they're mainly here to add support for X-X-X and
> DTR modes and get the m25p80 logic integrated in spi-nor.c so that we can
> really check which NOR operations are supported by the SPI controller.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Boris
> 
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