Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] spi: cadence-qspi: Add cadence-qspi support for Intel LGM SoC

[Ramuthevar, Vadivel MuruganX]

HI Vignesh,

On 17/9/2019 12:50 AM, Vignesh Raghavendra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 16/09/19 1:08 PM, Ramuthevar,Vadivel MuruganX wrote:
> > patch 1: Add YAML for cadence-qspi devicetree cdocumentation.
> > patch 2: cadence-qspi controller driver to support QSPI-NAND flash
> > using existing spi-nand framework with legacy spi protocol.
> Nope, you cannot have two drivers for the same IP (i.e Cadence QSPI)
> just to support to different types of SPI memories. This is the reason
> why spi_mem_ops was introduced.
>
> Please rewrite this driver over to use spi_mem_ops (instead of using
> generic SPI xfers) so that same driver supports both SPI-NOR and
> SPI-NAND flashes. Once that's done drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c
> can be deleted.
>
> There are few existing examples of spi_mem_ops users in drivers/spi/
> (git grep spi_mem_ops) and materials here on how to write such a driver:
>
> [1]
> https://bootlin.com/blog/spi-mem-bringing-some-consistency-to-the-spi-memory-ecosystem/
> [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWbuLM_gmU
As per Mark Brown and your suggestion, I have started adapting 
cadence-qaudspi driver with spi_mem_ops framework to work
QSPI-NAND/NOR as a generic driver(completely removed the legacy 
SPI-XFERS), is in progress on Intel LGM SoC.
QSPI-IP on Intel LGMÂ do not have DMAÂ support and also not part of QSPI 
IP, so couldn't able to validate DMA related.
will adapt the DMA things which are existing in cadence-quadspi.c as it is.

currently TI and Altera SoC's use this Cadence-qspi IP , both are not 
using DMA as per my understanding (correct me if it is wrong).
confirmed through device tree entry.

what is your opinion on DMA related stuff? also using macronix(QSPI-NOR) 
flash/Micron(QSPI-NAND).
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With Regards
Vadivel
> > Ramuthevar Vadivel Murugan (2):
> >    dt-bindings: spi: Add support for cadence-qspi IP Intel LGM SoC
> >    spi: cadence-qspi: Add QSPI support for Intel LGM SoC
> >
> >   .../devicetree/bindings/spi/cadence,qspi-nand.yaml |  84 +++
> >   drivers/spi/Kconfig                                |   9 +
> >   drivers/spi/Makefile                               |   1 +
> >   drivers/spi/spi-cadence-qspi-apb.c                 | 644 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >   drivers/spi/spi-cadence-qspi-apb.h                 | 174 ++++++
> >   drivers/spi/spi-cadence-qspi.c                     | 461 +++++++++++++++
> >   drivers/spi/spi-cadence-qspi.h                     |  73 +++
> >   7 files changed, 1446 insertions(+)
> >   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/cadence,qspi-nand.yaml
> >   create mode 100644 drivers/spi/spi-cadence-qspi-apb.c
> >   create mode 100644 drivers/spi/spi-cadence-qspi-apb.h
> >   create mode 100644 drivers/spi/spi-cadence-qspi.c
> >   create mode 100644 drivers/spi/spi-cadence-qspi.h