On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 00:26:32, 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?
Yes, is_elm_used data should come from DT. There may be hardware which uses
BCH8 ecc scheme even without ELM hardware support with software error correction
support. So is_elm_used data should come from DT property.
Thanks
Avinash
>
> That's the last topic before I'm clear to send off v4.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
>
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