Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] spi: cadence-quadpsi: Add support for the Cadence QSPI controller

[Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@xxxxxx>]

On 23/01/20 12:54 pm, Kuldeep Singh wrote:
> Hi Vignesh,
> 
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>> To: Ramuthevar,Vadivel MuruganX
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>> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] spi: cadence-quadpsi: Add support for the
>> Cadence QSPI controller
>>
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>> Hi,
>>
>> On 12/30/2019 1:11 PM, Ramuthevar,Vadivel MuruganX wrote:
>>> Add support for the Cadence QSPI controller. This controller is
>>> present in the Intel Lightning Mountain(LGM) SoCs, Altera and TI SoCs.
>>> This driver has been tested on the Intel LGM SoCs.
>>>
>>> This driver does not support generic SPI and also the implementation
>>> only supports spi-mem interface to replace the existing driver in
>>> mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c, the existing driver only support
>>> SPI-NOR flash memory.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I am finally able to get spi-mem based cadence-quaspi driver working on TI
>> platforms with DMA and DAC mode. I have also incorporated changes to
>> disable DAC and autopolling for your intel SoC:
>>
>> https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.co
>> m%2Fr-
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>> 40nxp.com%7Ccbd14ac527ae4298a28808d7998219e6%7C686ea1d3bc2b4c6fa
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>>
>> (Top two patches are of interest)
>>
>> I have tested both DAC and INDAC mode with s25fl flash and everything seems
>> to be fine. Could you re test the driver on your SoC? Feel free to fold it into
>> your series if everything works.
> 
> Is JFFS2/UBIFS a valid use case here? And were you able to test the same?
> I see few issues with Spansion flashes (s25fs) in framework and couldn’t make FS utilities run.
> On the other hand, file systems on other flashes (ex: micron, mt25qu) are showing positive results.
> 

I did test with s25fl512s with UBIFS and did not see any issue. Could
you try with latest linux master or linux next? There were couple of
fixes in the last -rc related to spansion flashes?

[1]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git/commit/?h=mtd/fixes&id=440b6d50254bdbd84c2a665c7f53ec69dd741a4f
[2]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git/commit/?h=mtd/fixes&id=da2ef8124f20b4ce18d1d3d24fc7b88e687e10bb

> Thanks
> Kuldeep
> 
>>
>> Regards
>> Vignesh
>>
>>
> 

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Regards
Vignesh