Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] spi: Add Renesas R-Car Gen3 RPC-IF SPI controller driver

[Marek Vasut]

On 1/28/19 2:38 AM, masonccyang@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Marek,

Hi,

>> "Marek Vasut" <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> >> > +module_platform_driver(rpc_spi_driver);
>> >> >>
>> >> >> RPC is not a SPI controller, it's a SPI and HF controller.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Also, how difficult will it be to add the HF support ?
>> >> >
>> >> > One of my customers needs RPC SPI driver for our company's
>> >> > Octal-Flash,MX25UW51245G.
>> >> > We don't have HF product and hope you could understanding.
>> >>
>> >> I am worried that when we need to add RPC HF support (which is what all
>> >> boards but the D3 Draak use), we will have to rewrite the entire driver
>> >> and/or convert it to MFD and that would be a tremendous
> undertaking. I'd
>> >> prefer to have the driver ready for the HF addition before it's
> accepted
>> >> upstream.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I think maybe your concerned would be happened only if HF driver
> goes with
>> > spi-mem layer.
>> >
>> > A comment for HF from Daniel Fishman. FYR.
>> >
>> > https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-hyper-flash-memory-and-how-is-it-
>> different-from-normal-flash-memory
>>
>> I have a decent idea what HF and SPI NOR are, since I wrote the RPC
>> driver for both HF and SPI mode for U-Boot (as I mentioned earlier).
>>
>> The HF in Linux would use the CFI NOR part of MTD framework. My concern
>> is that when we need to add HF support into this driver, this driver
>> will have to be basically rewritten, since the architecture won't allow
>> for that. I'd like to avoid that, since the majority of Gen3 boards,
>> expect for the D3 Draak, use RPC in HF mode.
> 
> FYI~
> 
> MX25UW51245g(64MByte Octa)                      S26KL512S(64MByte HF)
>    8 IO                                                  8 IO
> 200MHz DDR@xxxx                                   166MHz DDR@xxxx
> 
> support Read-while-write                       Not support
> good for OTA,etc
> powerful application

What does that mean ?

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut