[PATCH 4/4] OMAP: mtd: gpmc: add DT bindings for GPMC timings and NAND

Jon Hunter jon-hunter at ti.com
Thu Oct 25 09:16:21 EDT 2012


On 10/25/2012 03:00 AM, Daniel Mack wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> many thanks for your time to look at this.
> 
> On 25.10.2012 03:28, Jon Hunter wrote:
>> On 10/22/2012 02:55 PM, Daniel Mack wrote:
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/gpmc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/gpmc.txt
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..ef1c6e1
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/gpmc.txt
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
>>> +Device tree bindings for OMAP general purpose memory controllers (GPMC)
>>> +
>>> +The actual devices are instantiated from the child nodes of a GPMC node.
>>> +
>>> +Required properties:
>>> +
>>> + - compatible: Should be set to "ti,gpmc"
>>
>> Is this the only required property? I think that "reg" and "ti,hwmods"
>> are probably also required.
> 
> Well yes, but at least "reg" is commonly omitted as it's part of a more
> "generic" set of properties. But ok, I can add these.
> 
>> Also given that we are describing the hardware, I am wondering if the
>> number of chip-selects and wait signals should be defined here too. I
>> recall that different devices had different number of wait pins available.
> 
> Hmm, that number is currently hard-coded in GPMC_CS_NUM. It would take
> some effort to make that dynamic but I agree that this would be a good
> thing to have. Afzal?

I believe that today all OMAP/AM devices have 8 chip-selects so probably
not a big deal. However, given we are moving to DT it would be nice to
move away from having such #defines for hardware related items.

Cheers
Jon



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