[PATCH] ARM: dts: da850-evm: add clock properties to the nand node

Sekhar Nori nsekhar at ti.com
Wed Feb 7 05:06:30 PST 2018


On Wednesday 07 February 2018 12:15 AM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> 2018-02-06 19:25 GMT+01:00 David Lechner <david at lechnology.com>:
>> On 02/06/2018 12:16 PM, David Lechner wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/06/2018 07:51 AM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday 06 February 2018 06:38 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2018-02-06 12:07 GMT+01:00 Sekhar Nori <nsekhar at ti.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Monday 05 February 2018 09:22 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski at baylibre.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Make nand work with the common clock framework by specifying which
>>>>>>> clock should be used and what name to look up.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski at baylibre.com>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>   arch/arm/boot/dts/da850-evm.dts | 3 +++
>>>>>>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/da850-evm.dts
>>>>>>> b/arch/arm/boot/dts/da850-evm.dts
>>>>>>> index a86a8a1816f2..2602ad8e99ee 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/da850-evm.dts
>>>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/da850-evm.dts
>>>>>>> @@ -296,6 +296,9 @@
>>>>>>>                        reg = <0 0x02000000 0x02000000
>>>>>>>                               1 0x00000000 0x00008000>;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> +                     clocks = <&psc0 3>;
>>>>>>> +                     clock-names = "aemif";
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looks like this is being added only to satisfy the devm_clk_get() call
>>>>>> in nand_davinci_probe() which I think is superfluous since we also
>>>>>> enable the same clock in aemif_probe().
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Perhaps the better solution is to drip the clk code in
>>>>>> drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c and shift legacy code to start using
>>>>>> drivers/memory/aemif.c as well? This way we can also drop
>>>>>> arch/arm/mach-davinci/aemif.c
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Sekhar
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, this sounds good, but I think we should leave it for later as an
>>>>> additional improvement, once everything else is in place. I think
>>>>> these patches should be applied together with David's series in order
>>>>> to not break the support on davinci boards and the aemif work would go
>>>>> in later as a follow-up. How about that?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, I dont think we should add temporary hacks to DT to work around
>>>> driver issues (I do think its a hack since the clock belongs to aemif
>>>> module not NAND flash).
>>>>
>>>> An easier driver hack might be to not treat devm_clk_get() failure in
>>>> davinci_nand.c as catastrophic. It will safely fail in DT case and we
>>>> should get the clock in legacy boot case.
>>>>
>>>> I think we are looking at a driver update dependency anyway.
>>>
>>>
>>> It looks like keystone.dtsi is using the clock-ranges property in the
>>> aemif node to pass the clock to child nodes. Could we not do the same
>>> in da850.dtsi?
>>
>>
>> Bartosz, please try this instead of your patch.
>>
>> FYI, this is just following the existing memory-controllers/ti-aemif.txt
>> device tree bindings, so not a "hack".
>>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/da850.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/da850.dtsi
>> index 3a1f2ce..ff9d807 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/da850.dtsi
>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/da850.dtsi
>> @@ -796,6 +796,8 @@
>>                 ranges = <0 0 0x60000000 0x08000000
>>                           1 0 0x68000000 0x00008000>;
>>                 clocks = <&psc0 3>;
>> +               clock-names = "aemif";
>> +               clock-ranges;
>>                 status = "disabled";
>>         };
>>         memctrl: memory-controller at b0000000 {
>> ---
> 
> Yes, this works. Sekhar: can we include it in David's series, while
> still keeping the plan to move legacy boards to using the aemif
> driver?

Okay. Fine with me. Actually the chipselect node already has
clock-ranges defined, but that doesn't have any meaning unless its also
included in aemif node.

Thanks,
Sekhar



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