Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] mtd: rawnand: Add NAND controller support on Intel LGM SoC

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 May 2020 15:15:08 +0800
"Ramuthevar, Vadivel MuruganX"
<vadivel.muruganx.ramuthevar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Boris,
> 
>    Thank you very much for the prompt review and suggestions...
> 
> On 4/5/2020 3:08 pm, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 May 2020 10:02:35 +0800
> > "Ramuthevar, Vadivel MuruganX"
> > <vadivel.muruganx.ramuthevar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi Boris,
> >>
> >> On 30/4/2020 9:01 pm, Boris Brezillon wrote:  
> >>> On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:36:00 +0200
> >>> Boris Brezillon<boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>> On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:07:03 +0800
> >>>> "Ramuthevar, Vadivel MuruganX"
> >>>> <vadivel.muruganx.ramuthevar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >>>>     
> >>>>>>>> The question is, is it the same value we have in nand_pa or it is
> >>>>>>>> different?
> >>>>>>>>              
> >>>>>>> Different address which is 0xE1400000 NAND_BASE_PHY address.  
> >>>>>> Then why didn't you tell me they didn't match when I suggested to pass  
> >>>>> sorry, because you keep asking nand_pa after that only I realized that.
> >>>>>         
> >>>>>> nand_pa? So now the question is, what does this address represent?  
> >>>>>                   EBU-MODULE
> >>>>>     _________     _______________________
> >>>>> |         |   |            |NAND CTRL  |
> >>>>> | FPI BUS |==>| CS0(0x174) | 0xE100    ( 0xE14/0xE1C) NAND_PHY_BASE
> >>>>> |_________|   |_CS1(0x17C)_|__________ |
> >>>>>
> >>>>> EBU_CONRTROLLER_BASE : 0xE0F0_0000
> >>>>> HSNAND_BASE: 0xE100_0000
> >>>>> NAND_CS0: 0xE140_0000
> >>>>> NAND_CS1: 0xE1C0_0000
> >>>>>
> >>>>> MEM_REGION_BASE_CS0: 0x17400 (internal to ebu controller )
> >>>>> MEM_REGION_BASE_CS1: 0x17C00
> >>>>>         
> >>>> Hm, I wonder if we shouldn't use a 'ranges' property to describe this
> >>>> address translation. Something like
> >>>>
> >>>> 	ebu@xxx {
> >>>> 		ranges = <0x17400000 0xe1400000 0x1000>,
> >>>> 			 <0x17c00000 0xe1c00000 0x1000>;
> >>>> 		reg = <0x17400000>, <0x17c00000>;
> >>>> 		reg-names = "cs-0", "cs-1";
> >>>> 	}
> >>>>
> >>>> The translated address (0xE1X00000) will be available in res->start,
> >>>> and the non-translated one (0x17X00000) can be retrieved with
> >>>> of_get_address(). All you'd have to do then would be calculate the
> >>>> mask:
> >>>>
> >>>> 	mask = (translated_address & original_address) >> 22;
> >>>> 	num_comp_bits = fls(mask);
> >>>> 	WARN_ON(mask != GENMASK(num_comp_bits - 1, 0));
> >>>>
> >>>> Which allows you to properly set the ADDR_SEL() register without
> >>>> relying on some hardcoded values:
> >>>>
> >>>> 	writel(original_address | EBU_ADDR_SEL_REGEN |
> >>>> 	       EBU_ADDR_COMP_BITS(num_comp_bits),
> >>>> 	       ebu_host->ebu + EBU_ADDR_SEL(csid));
> >>>>
> >>>> That's quite important if we want to merge the xway NAND driver with
> >>>> this one.  
> >>> Looks like the translation is done at the FPI bus declaration level (see
> >>> [1]). We really need to see the big picture to take a wise decision
> >>> about the bindings. Would you mind pasting your dsti/dts files
> >>> somewhere? It feels like the NAND controller is a sub-part of a more
> >>> generic 'memory' controller, in which case the NAND controller should be
> >>> declared as a child of this generic memory bus (called localbus in [1],
> >>> but maybe EBU is more accurate).
> >>>
> >>> [1]https://github.com/xieyaxiongfly/Atheros_CSI_tool_OpenWRT_src/blob/master/target/linux/lantiq/files-4.14/arch/mips/boot/dts/vr9.dtsi#L162     
> >>
> >>    ebu_nand: ebu_nand@e0f00000 {
> >>                    compatible = "intel,lgm-ebu-nand";
> >>                    reg = <0xe0f00000 0x100
> >>                    0xe1000000 0x300
> >>                    0xe1400000 0x80000
> >>                    0xe1c00000 0x10000>;
> >>                    reg-names = "ebunand", "hsnand", "nand_cs0", nand_cs1";
> >>                    dmas = <&dma0 8>, <&dma0 9>;
> >>                    dma-names = "ebu_rx", "ebu_tx";
> >>                    clocks =  <&cgu0 LGM_GCLK_EBU>;
> >>            };
> >>
> >>
> >> 	 &ebu_nand {
> >> 	         status = "disabled";
> >> 	        nand,cs = <1>;
> >> 	        nand-ecc-mode = "hw";
> >> 	        pinctrl-names = "default";
> >> 	        pinctrl-0 = <&ebu_nand_base &ebu_cs1>;
> >> 	};
> >>  
> >>>      
> > Ok. If I understand the SoC topology correctly it should actually be
> > something like that:
> > 
> > {
> > 	...
> > 	fpi@xxxxx {
> > 		compatible = "intel,lgm-fpi", "simple-bus";
> > 
> > 		/* You might have other ranges to define here */
> > 		ranges = <0x16000000 0xe0000000 0x1000000>;
> > 
> > 		...  
> 
> Sorry, we do not have fpi tree node in our dts/dtsi file instead we have 
> the below one.. , that also not included the major peripherals 
> controllers node.
>          /* Special part from CPU core */
>          core: core {
>                  compatible = "intel,core", "simple-bus";
>                  #address-cells = <1>;
>                  #size-cells = <1>;
>                  ranges;
> 
>                  ioapic1: interrupt-controller@fec00000 {
>                          #interrupt-cells = <2>;
>                          #address-cells = <0>;
>                          compatible = "intel,ce4100-ioapic";
>                          interrupt-controller;
>                          reg = <0xfec00000 0x1000>;
>                          nr_entries = <256>;
>                  };
> 
>                  hpet: timer@fed00000 {
>                          compatible = "intel,ce4100-hpet";
>                          reg = <0xfed00000 0x400>;
>                  };
> 
>                  lapic0: interrupt-controller@fee00000 {
>                          compatible = "intel,ce4100-lapic";
>                          reg = <0xfee00000 0x1000>;
>                          no_pic_mode;
>                  };
>          };
> 
> other than this, rest all in independent node .

But you do have an FPI bus, right? If this is the case it should be
represented. Or is the "intel,core" bus actually the FPI bus that you
named differently?

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