[PATCH v2 1/5] drivers: memory: Introduce Marvell EBU Device Bus driver

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Fri Apr 5 17:45:10 EDT 2013


On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 06:11:56PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:

> +The reg property must specify the chip select as:
> +
> +  0: DEV_BOOTCS
> +  1: DEV_CS0
> +  2: DEV_CS1
> +  3: DEV_CS2
> +  4: DEV_CS3

I look at this and sort of go 'hmm'. These are basically register
offsets into the block starting at 0xd0010400. I don't see any
registers that are shared between targets. It would be simpler to keep
each target as a seperate node and seperate driver instance.

Combining that idea with the suggestion for target-id centric mbus DT
binding:

bootcs at d0010400 {
   compatible = "marvell,armada370-devbus";
   ranges = <0 MAPDEF_BOOTCS 0x1000>
   reg = <MAPDEF_INTERNAL + 0x10400 0x8>;  // boot cs register set
   devbus,dev-width = <1>;
   [..] etc

   rom at 0 {
      reg = <0 0x1000>
   }
}

bus_cs3 at d0010400 {
   compatible = "marvell,armada370-devbus";
   ranges = <0 MAPDEF_BUS_CS3 0x1000>
   reg = <MAPDEF_INTERNAL + 0x10408 0x8>; // cs3 register set
   devbus,dev-width = <1>;
   [..] etc

   device at 0 {
      reg = <0 0x1000>
   }
}

Which follows the usual DT convention that the parent bus sets up
properties that apply to all children.

This isn't a major point, but give it a think :)

> +static void get_timing_param_ps(struct devbus *devbus,
> +				struct device_node *node,
> +				const char *name,
> +				u32 *ticks)
> +{
> +	u32 time_ps;
> +
> +	of_property_read_u32(node, name, &time_ps);
> +
> +	*ticks = (time_ps + devbus->tick_ps - 1) / devbus->tick_ps;
> +
> +	dev_dbg(devbus->dev, "%s: %u ps -> 0x%x\n",
> +		name, time_ps, *ticks);
> +}

It looks like there is a problem here, if the properties are not
present then what value will be in time_ps?

The driver should probably fail to load if any timing parameter is
missing from the DT??

> +	/*
> +	 * We probe NOR/NAND with different functions, because
> +	 * we expect them to have some different parameters.
> +	 * If this turns out not to be the case, we'll be able
> +	 * to use any name for the child, and rename to devbus_probe_child().
> +	 */

This statement seems confusing, all this driver does is set
READ_PARAM_OFFSET/WRITE_PARAM_OFFSET - are there other NAND specific
registers? What NOR/NAND difference do you imagine?

I gave it all a quick look over and it looks broadly OK to me
otherwise.

Regards,
Jason



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