Re: [PATCH 2/2] memory: ti-aemif: add bindings for AEMIF driver

From: Santosh Shilimkar
Date: Fri Nov 29 2013 - 10:12:12 EST


On Friday 29 November 2013 10:00 AM, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> Hi Kumar Gala,
>
> On 11/22/2013 11:06 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 20, 2013, at 1:03 PM, ivan.khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/20/2013 08:21 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>>>>> + the chip select signal.
>>>>> + Minimum value is 1 (0 treated as 1).
>>>>> +
>>>>> +- ti,cs-wsetup: write setup width, ns
>>>>> + Time between the beginning of a memory cycle
>>>>> + and the activation of write strobe.
>>>>> + Minimum value is 1 (0 treated as 1).
>>>>> +
>>>>> +- ti,cs-wstrobe: write strobe width, ns
>>>>> + Time between the activation and deactivation of
>>>>> + the write strobe.
>>>>> + Minimum value is 1 (0 treated as 1).
>>>>> +
>>>>> +- ti,cs-whold: write hold width, ns
>>>>> + Time between the deactivation of the write
>>>>> + strobe and the end of the cycle (which may be
>>>>> + either an address change or the deactivation of
>>>>> + the chip select signal.
>>>>> + Minimum value is 1 (0 treated as 1).
>>>>> +
>>>>> +If any of the above parameters are absent, current parameter value will be taken
>>>>> +from the corresponding HW reg.
>>>>> +
>>>>> +The name for cs node must be in format csN, where N is the cs number.
>>>>
>>>> this is wired we should use reg instead to represent the cs as done for SPI
>>>> or a an other property
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> J.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, I will add new property cs-chipselect like following :
>>>
>>> ti,cs-chipselect: number of chipselect. Indicates on the
>>> aemif driver which chipselect is used
>>> for accessing the memory.
>>> For compatibles "ti,davinci-aemif" and
>>> "ti,keystone-aemif" it can be in range [0-3].
>>> For compatible "ti,omap-L138-aemif" range is [2-5].
>>>
>>> Is it OK?
>>
>> Why do you need this? As it was mentioned just use reg:
>>
>> So you’d have something like:
>>
>> memory-controller@21000A00 {
>> …
>> nand:cs2@2 {
>> reg = <2 0 0>;
>> ranges;
>> ...
>>
>> }:
>> };
>
> I'd prefer to continue with "ti,cs-chipselect" (this is more human friendly definition, as for me),
> but if you insist - it can be changed as:
> memory-controller@21000A00 {
> compatible = "ti,keystone-aemif";
> ...
>
> cs2 {
> compatible = "ti,aemif-cs";
> reg = <2>;
> ...
> }
>
> cs0 {
> compatible = "ti,aemif-cs";
> reg = <0>;
> ...
> }
>
>>
>> However, I’m confused by the example in which you have:
>>
>> + nand@0,0x8000000 {
>> + compatible = "ti,davinci-nand";
>> + reg = <0 0x8000000 0x4000000
>> + 1 0x0000000 0x0000100>;
>> +
>> + .. see davinci-nand.txt
>> + };
>>
>> What chipselects is this on 0 & 1?
>
> As I described in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/26/282 we are not encoding CS number in reg
> - it's memory partition number.
>
> Also, I'd like to note that we *DO NOT introduce* NAND device bindings here.
> The Davinci NAND bindings was introduced and accepted more then one year ago, and
> we've just updated its a bit (keeping full compatibility) and reused
> (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/21/182).
> And the CS number is encoded for Davinci NAND node using standalone property
> "ti,davinci-chipselect" and we need to provide (2) two memory ranges to it,
> as result we can't encode CS number in "reg" for AEMIF child devices (NAND/NOR/etc),
> as it will break bindings compatibility.
>
> In this document, NAND node is used just as an example of child node.
>
The above should have been really captured in the commit log to get a better
picture. No way on earth, a reviewer can figure out whether this is new bindings
or copy of bindings already used.

Regards,
Santosh

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