From: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
Cc: "Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
"Vignesh Raghavendra" <vigneshr@ti.com>,
linux-aspeed <linux-aspeed@lists.ozlabs.org>,
"Tudor Ambarus" <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>,
"Andrew Jeffery" <andrew@aj.id.au>,
"Richard Weinberger" <richard@nod.at>,
"Marek Vasut" <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>,
"Miquel Raynal" <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
"Brian Norris" <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
"Linux ARM" <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: AST2600 support and extensions
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 23:47:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACPK8Xe__AYvrh40vqjwoM=XKJfp5MeqrMARpFUDGWCyJK6jXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191009225555.67622339@dhcp-172-31-174-146.wireless.concordia.ca>
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 20:56, Boris Brezillon
<boris.brezillon@collabora.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Cedric,
>
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 13:59:03 +0200
> Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > This series first extends the support for the Aspeed AST2500 and
> > AST2400 SMC driver. It adds Dual Data support and read training giving
> > the best read settings for a given chip. Support for the new AST2600
> > SoC is added at the end.
> >
> > I understand that a new spi_mem framework exists and I do have an
> > experimental driver using it. But unfortunately, it is difficult to
> > integrate the read training. The Aspeed constraints are not compatible
> > and i haven't had the time to extend the current framework.
>
> Hm, I don't think that's a good reason to push new features to the
> existing driver, especially since I asked others to migrate their
> drivers to spi-mem in the past. I do understand your concerns, and I'll
> let the SPI NOR/MTD maintainers make the final call, but I think it'd
> be better for the SPI MEM ecosystem to think about this link-training
> API (Vignesh needs it for the Cadence driver IIRC) rather than pushing
> this kind of feature to spi-nor controller drivers.
As Cedric mentioned, the OpenBMC project has been shipping the read
training code for the ast2400/ast2400 for several years now. It would
be great to see it in mainline.
I think it's reasonable to ask for the driver to be moved to the
spi-mem subsystem once it has the required APIs.
Cheers,
Joel
>
> >
> > This patchset has been in use for some time in the OpenBMC kernel on
> > these systems :
> >
> > * OpenPOWER Palmetto (AST2400)
> > * Evaluation board (AST2500)
> > * OpenPOWER Witherspoon (AST2500)
> > * OpenPOWER Romulus (AST2500)
> > * OpenPOWER Zaius (AST2500)
> > and many others
> >
> > and it is now in use on these boards with the new SoC :
> >
> > * Evaluation board (AST2600)
> > * Tacoma board (AST2600)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > C.
> >
> > Alexander Soldatov (1):
> > mtd: spi-nor: fix options for mx66l51235f
> >
> > Cédric Le Goater (15):
> > mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Use command mode for reads
> > mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Add support for SPI dual IO read mode
> > mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Link controller with the ahb clock
> > mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Add read training
> > mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Limit the maximum SPI frequency
> > mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Add support for the 4B opcodes
> > mtd: spi-nor: Add support for w25q512jv
> > mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Introduce a field for the AHB physical address
> > mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Introduce segment operations
> > dt-bindings: mtd: aspeed-smc: Add new comptatible for AST2600
> > mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Add initial support for the AST2600
> > mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Check for disabled segments on the AST2600
> > mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Introduce training operations per platform
> > mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Introduce a HCLK mask for training
> > mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Add read training support for the AST2600
> >
> > drivers/mtd/spi-nor/aspeed-smc.c | 593 ++++++++++++++++--
> > drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c | 5 +-
> > .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/aspeed-smc.txt | 2 +
> > 3 files changed, 551 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
> >
>
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-04 11:59 [PATCH 00/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: AST2600 support and extensions Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 11:59 ` [PATCH 01/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Use command mode for reads Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 11:59 ` [PATCH 02/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Add support for SPI dual IO read mode Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 11:59 ` [PATCH 03/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Link controller with the ahb clock Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 11:59 ` [PATCH 04/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Add read training Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-11 12:28 ` Boris Brezillon
2019-10-11 13:13 ` Vignesh Raghavendra
2019-10-11 14:03 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-11 13:55 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-11 14:29 ` Boris Brezillon
2019-10-11 14:37 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 11:59 ` [PATCH 05/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Limit the maximum SPI frequency Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 11:59 ` [PATCH 06/16] mtd: spi-nor: fix options for mx66l51235f Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 16:23 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 11:59 ` [PATCH 07/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Add support for the 4B opcodes Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 11:59 ` [PATCH 08/16] mtd: spi-nor: Add support for w25q512jv Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 11:59 ` [PATCH 09/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Introduce a field for the AHB physical address Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 11:59 ` [PATCH 10/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Introduce segment operations Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 11:59 ` [PATCH 11/16] dt-bindings: mtd: aspeed-smc: Add new comptatible for AST2600 Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-15 19:26 ` Rob Herring
2019-10-04 11:59 ` [PATCH 12/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Add initial support for the AST2600 Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 11:59 ` [PATCH 13/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Check for disabled segments on " Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 12:09 ` [PATCH 14/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Introduce training operations per platform Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 12:09 ` [PATCH 15/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Introduce a HCLK mask for training Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-04 12:09 ` [PATCH 16/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: Add read training support for the AST2600 Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-09 20:55 ` [PATCH 00/16] mtd: spi-nor: aspeed: AST2600 support and extensions Boris Brezillon
2019-10-10 23:47 ` Joel Stanley [this message]
2019-10-11 6:45 ` Boris Brezillon
2019-10-11 9:29 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-11 9:51 ` Boris Brezillon
2019-10-11 11:47 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-11 12:07 ` Boris Brezillon
2019-10-11 13:07 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-11 14:01 ` Boris Brezillon
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