[PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: spi: dw: add compatible for Alpine spi controller

From: Talel Shenhar
Date: Wed Oct 10 2018 - 11:15:54 EST


This compatible adds the ability for dw spi controller driver to work with
the dw spi controller found on Alpine chips.

The dw spi controller has an auto-deselect of Chip-Select, in case there is
no data inside the Tx FIFO. While working on platforms with Alpine chips,
auto-deselect mode causes an issue for some spi devices that can't handle
the Chip-Select deselect in the middle of a transaction. It is a normal
behavior for a Tx FIFO to be empty in the middle of a transaction, due to
busy cpu. In the Alpine chip family an option to change the default
behavior was added to the original dw spi controller to prevent this issue
of de-asserting Chip-Select once TX FIFO is empty. The change was to allow
SW manual control of the Chip-Select. With this change, as long as the
Slave Enable Register is asserted, the Chip-Select will be asserted. As a
result, it is necessary to deselect the Slave Select Register once the
transaction is done. This feature is enabled via a new device compatible
string called 'al,alpine-dw-apb-ssi'. Once the driver identifies the new
compatible string, it enables the hw fixup logic, by writing to a dedicated
register found in the IP reserved area and will start manual deselecting
the Slave Select Register when the transfer ends.

Signed-off-by: Talel Shenhar <talel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/snps,dw-apb-ssi.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/snps,dw-apb-ssi.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/snps,dw-apb-ssi.txt
index 642d3fb..d25b1f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/snps,dw-apb-ssi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/snps,dw-apb-ssi.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Synopsys DesignWare AMBA 2.0 Synchronous Serial Interface.

Required properties:
- compatible : "snps,dw-apb-ssi" or "mscc,<soc>-spi", where soc is "ocelot" or
- "jaguar2"
+ "jaguar2", or "al,alpine-dw-apb-ssi"
- reg : The register base for the controller. For "mscc,<soc>-spi", a second
register set is required (named ICPU_CFG:SPI_MST)
- interrupts : One interrupt, used by the controller.
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