Re: [PATCH 2/2] memory: omap-gpmc: expand the description of the debug facility

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Hello Roger,

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 10:45:50AM +0300, Roger Quadros wrote:
> On 06/10/15 23:07, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > Most register values for the chip select setup depend on the frequency
> > of the fck clock.
> > So add a hint that the values setup by the bootloader might differ from
> > the right setup for Linux if the bootloader uses a different frequency.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/memory/Kconfig | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/memory/Kconfig b/drivers/memory/Kconfig
> > index c6a644b22af4..1414dd53be57 100644
> > --- a/drivers/memory/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/memory/Kconfig
> > @@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ config OMAP_GPMC_DEBUG
> >  	  Enables verbose debugging mostly to decode the bootloader provided
> >  	  timings. Enable this during development to configure devices
> >  	  connected to the GPMC bus.
> > +	  Note that you cannot just tweak your device tree until the registers
> > +	  setup by linux match what the bootloader did because that one might
> > +	  use a different fck frequency influencing most register settings.
> 
> Looks like we can't know for sure the GPMC fclk used at the bootloader
> else we could have just printed the GPMC fclk pre and post gpmc settings.
> 
> How about this instead?
> 
> NOTE: Apart from matching the register setup with the bootloader you also need to
> match the GPMC FCLK frequency used by the bootloader else the GPMC timings
> won't be identical with the bootloader timings.
Yeah, sounds better, thanks.

> Also you might need to build this patch on top of
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2054796
I talked to Tony about this patch yesterday on irc, but I didn't find it
in the archives yet when I sent my mail.

Thanks
Uwe

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