[RFC 05/12] dt-bindings: mtd: add Marvell NAND controller documentation
Rob Herring
robh at kernel.org
Tue Oct 24 12:04:33 PDT 2017
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 04:36:22PM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Document the bindings for the legacy and the new bindings relative to
> Marvell NAND controller driver rework.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at free-electrons.com>
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/marvell-nand.txt | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 95 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/marvell-nand.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/marvell-nand.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/marvell-nand.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..ea99f426c03f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/marvell-nand.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
> +Marvell NAND Flash Controller (NFC)
> +
> +Required properties:
> +C'est faux, t'en a rajouté un y a pas longtps :).
> +Je conseille de mettre ça sous forme de liste, genre
Humm.
> +
> +- compatible: can be one of the following:
> + * "marvell,armada-8k-nand-controller"
> + * "marvell,armada370-nand-controller"
> + * "marvell,pxa3xx-nand-controller"
> + * "marvell,armada-8k-nand" (deprecated)
> + * "marvell,armada370-nand" (deprecated)
> + * "marvell,pxa3xx-nand" (deprecated)
> +- reg: shall contain registers location and length for data and reg.
2 regions?
> +- #address-cells: shall be set to 1. Encode the nand CS.
> +- #size-cells: shall be set to 0.
> +- interrupts: shall define the nand controller interrupt.
> +- clocks: shall reference nand controller clocks.
How many clocks?
> +- marvell,system-controller: Set to retrieve the syscon node that handles
> + NAND controller related registers (only required with the
> + "marvell,armada-8k-nand[-controller]" compatibles).
> +
> +Optional properties:
> +- dmas: shall reference DMA channel associated to the NAND controller.
> +- dma-names: shall be "rxtx".
> +
> +Optional children nodes:
> +Children nodes represent the available NAND chips.
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- reg: shall contain the native Chip Select ids (0-3)
> +- marvell,rb: shall contain the native Ready/Busy ids (0-1)
> +
> +Optional properties:
> +- marvell,nand-keep-config: orders the driver not to take the timings
> + from the core and leaving them completely untouched. Bootloader
> + timings will then be used.
> +- marvell,nand-enable-arbiter: only useful for PXA platforms, will
> + enable bus arbiter between NFC and DFI bus (must be enabled for
> + NFC operation)
Why do you need this if it must be enabled?
> +- nand-on-flash-bbt: speed up the boot process by not discovering all
> + the bad blocks at each boot and reading directly an on flash table.
> +- nand-ecc-mode: one of the supported ECC modes ("none", "soft",
> + "hw"). If not specified, hardware ECC will be used.
> +- nand-ecc-algo: algorithm to use if previous choice was "soft"
> + ("hamming" or "bch). This property may be added for hardware ECC for
> + clarification but will be ignored by the driver because ECC mode is
> + chosen depending on the page size and the strength required by the
> + NAND chip. This value may be overwritten with the nand-ecc-strength
> + property.
> +- nand-ecc-strength: desired ECC strength.
> +- nand-ecc-step-size: indication on the ECC step size. This has no
> + effect and will be ignored by the driver when using hardware
> + ECC. Because Marvell's NAND flash controller does use fixed strength
> + (1-bit for Hamming, 16-bit for BCH), the step size will shrink or
> + grown in order to fit the required strength and the value
> + updated. Step sizes are not completely random for all and follow
> + certain patterns described in AN-379, "Marvell SoC NFC ECC".
For standard properties, just reference nand.txt and add any
constraints. Don't define what the property is again.
> +
> +See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand.txt for more details on
> +generic bindings.
> +
> +
> +Example:
> +nand_controller: nand-controller at d0000 {
> + compatible = "marvell,armada370-nand-controller";
> + reg = <0xd0000 0x54>;
> + #address-cells = <1>;
> + #size-cells = <0>;
> + interrupts = <GIC_SPI 84 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> + clocks = <&coredivclk 0>;
> + status = "okay";
Don't show status in examples.
> +
> + nand at 0 {
> + reg = <0>;
> + marvell,rb = <0>;
> + nand-ecc-mode = "hw";
> + marvell,nand-keep-config;
> + marvell,nand-enable-arbiter;
> + nand-on-flash-bbt;
> + nand-ecc-strength = <4>;
> + nand-ecc-step-size = <512>;
> +
> + partitions {
> + compatible = "fixed-partitions";
> + #address-cells = <1>;
> + #size-cells = <1>;
> +
> + partition at 0 {
> + label = "Rootfs";
> + reg = <0x00000000 0x40000000>;
> + };
> + };
> + };
> +};
> --
> 2.11.0
>
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