Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] ARM: OMAP: gpmc: add DT bindings for GPMC timings and NAND

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 11.11.2012 02:56, Daniel Mack wrote:
> On 07.11.2012 16:37, Philip, Avinash wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 15:18:37, Daniel Mack wrote:
>>> On 05.11.2012 14:29, Philip, Avinash wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 18:28:22, Daniel Mack wrote:
>>>>> On 05.11.2012 12:03, Philip, Avinash wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 20:55:56, Daniel Mack wrote:
>>>>>>> This patch adds basic DT bindings for OMAP GPMC.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The actual peripherals are instanciated from child nodes within the GPMC
>>>>>>> node, and the only type of device that is currently supported is NAND.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Code was added to parse the generic GPMC timing parameters and some
>>>>>>> documentation with examples on how to use them.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Successfully tested on an AM33xx board.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <zonque@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +		nand@0,0 {
>>>>>>> +			reg = <0 0 0>; /* CS0, offset 0 */
>>>>>>> +			nand-bus-width = <16>;
>>>>>>> +			nand-ecc-mode = "none";
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +			gpmc,sync-clk = <0>;
>>>>>>> +			gpmc,cs-on = <0>;
>>>>>>> +			gpmc,cs-rd-off = <36>;
>>>>>>> +			gpmc,cs-wr-off = <36>;
>>>>>>> +			gpmc,adv-on = <6>;
>>>>>>> +			gpmc,adv-rd-off = <24>;
>>>>>>> +			gpmc,adv-wr-off = <36>;
>>>>>>> +			gpmc,we-off = <30>;
>>>>>>> +			gpmc,oe-off = <48>;
>>>>>>> +			gpmc,access = <54>;
>>>>>>> +			gpmc,rd-cycle = <72>;
>>>>>>> +			gpmc,wr-cycle = <72>;
>>>>>>> +			gpmc,wr-access = <30>;
>>>>>>> +			gpmc,wr-data-mux-bus = <0>;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +			#address-cells = <1>;
>>>>>>> +			#size-cells = <1>;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you take the timings (for example) from arago tree. The timings is tested in am335x-evm
>>>>>> So the timings can be directly used to populate GPMC timings. Timings can found at
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://arago-project.org/git/projects/?p=linux-am33x.git;a=commitdiff;
>>>>>> h=66bfbd2c5b35dc81edce0c24843c476161ab5978;hp=370630359cb8db711cf0941cd2a242e28ccfb61e
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> +static int gpmc_probe_dt(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you take care of the following section mismatch.
>>>>>> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1e2d0): Section mismatch in reference
>>>>>> from the function gpmc_probe_dt() to the function .init.text:gpmc_nand_init().
>>>>>
>>>>> Sore, both fixed for v4.
>>>>>
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +		val = of_get_nand_ecc_mode(child);
>>>>>>> +		if (val >= 0)
>>>>>>> +			gpmc_nand_data->ecc_opt = val;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This will fail for BCH. Index of "soft_bch" is 5 & also don't have selection
>>>>>> option between for BCH4 & BCH8 also.
>>>>>> Can you use the of_property_read_u32 (as done early) to pass the ecc selection
>>>>>> from dt file. This will help selection of BCH4 & BCH8 ecc options.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm. Shouldn't we rather teach of_get_nand_ecc_mode() that two modes and
>>>>> bring the enum in sync?
>>>>
>>>> ecc_opt is for selecting different ecc layout and not for selecting ecc mode.
>>>>
>>>> In omap2 driver NAND_ECC_HW ecc mode supports 3 ecc layout
>>>> 	OMAP_ECC_HAMMING_CODE_HW_ROMCODE
>>>> 	OMAP_ECC_BCH4_CODE_HW
>>>> 	OMAP_ECC_BCH8_CODE_HW
>>>>
>>>> So selection of ecc layout data should come from DT not ecc mode.
>>>
>>> Ok, I see. I would still like to set them by string rather than magic
>>> numbers that map to enum entries. Valid values would be "none", "hw",
>>> "hw-romcode", "bch4" and "bch8". Are you ok with that?
>>
>> Ok, that's nice. Better use ecc_opt instead of ecc_mode.
> 
> I did some more extensive tests that include reading the same nand pages
> from both U-Boot and the kernel with BCH8 ECC, and it turns out that
> ->is_elm_used needs to be set in the pdata in order to make this work.
> 
> So the question is whether we actually want to have a DT property for
> that or just always enable that bit in case a hardware supported ecc
> mode is selected. Any opinion on this?
> 
> That's the last topic before I'm clear to send off v4.

Any opionion on this, anyone?


Thanks,
Daniel

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Arm (vger)]     [ARM Kernel]     [ARM MSM]     [Linux Tegra]     [Linux WPAN Networking]     [Linux Wireless Networking]     [Maemo Users]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Trails]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux