[PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: ti: am642-evm: Add overlay for NAND expansion card

Andrew Davis afd at ti.com
Fri Sep 22 07:54:06 PDT 2023


On 9/22/23 4:03 AM, Roger Quadros wrote:
> 
> 
> On 21/09/2023 20:23, Andrew Davis wrote:
>> On 9/21/23 6:37 AM, Roger Quadros wrote:
>>> On 20/09/2023 20:06, Andrew Davis wrote:
>>>> On 9/20/23 11:44 AM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>>>>> On 18:18-20230920, Roger Quadros wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 20/09/2023 16:58, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>>>>>>> On 16:34-20230920, Roger Quadros wrote:
>>>>>>>> The NAND expansion card plugs in over the HSE (High Speed Expansion)
>>>>>>>> connector. Add support for it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros <rogerq at kernel.org>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>     arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/Makefile               |   1 +
>>>>>>>>     arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am642-evm-nand.dtso | 140 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>>     2 files changed, 141 insertions(+)
>>>>>>>>     create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am642-evm-nand.dtso
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/Makefile b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/Makefile
>>>>>>>> index 06d6f264f292..ece74085a6be 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/Makefile
>>>>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/Makefile
>>>>>>>> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_K3) += k3-am62p5-sk.dtb
>>>>>>>>       # Boards with AM64x SoC
>>>>>>>>     dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_K3) += k3-am642-evm.dtb
>>>>>>>> +dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_K3) += k3-am642-evm-nand.dtbo
>>>>>>>>     dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_K3) += k3-am642-phyboard-electra-rdk.dtb
>>>>>>>>     dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_K3) += k3-am642-sk.dtb
>>>>>>>>     dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_K3) += k3-am642-tqma64xxl-mbax4xxl.dtb
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also see https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230911165610.GA1362932-robh@kernel.org/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> you may not get the dtbo installed when doing make dtbs_install
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ v8make dtbs_install INSTALL_DTBS_PATH=/tmp
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am625-beagleplay.dtb
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am625-phyboard-lyra-rdk.dtb
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am625-sk.dtb
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am625-verdin-nonwifi-dahlia.dtb
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am625-verdin-nonwifi-dev.dtb
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am625-verdin-nonwifi-yavia.dtb
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am625-verdin-wifi-dahlia.dtb
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am625-verdin-wifi-dev.dtb
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am625-verdin-wifi-yavia.dtb
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am62-lp-sk.dtb
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am62x-sk-hdmi-audio.dtbo
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am62a7-sk.dtb
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am62p5-sk.dtb
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am642-evm.dtb
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am642-evm-nand.dtbo
>>>>>> ^^^^
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am642-phyboard-electra-rdk.dtb
>>>>>>      INSTALL /tmp/ti/k3-am642-sk.dtb
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What did I miss?
>>>>>
>>>>> I missed it, actually. See Rob's comment:
>>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAL_Jsq+GR3hP6hFvFn2z5aXvSXnh9butD3aKZ-y_XJgx0_YPTw@mail.gmail.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> Having orphan dtbo is apparently frowned upon
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And if you apply these overlays to the base DTB then it gets
>>>> symbols added automatically, no need for your patch [1/2] here.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is this OK?
>>>
>>>      k3-am642-evm-nand-dtbs := k3-am642-evm.dtb k3-am642-evm-nand.dtbo
>>>      dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_K3) += k3-am642-evm-nand.dtb
>>>
>>> So patch 1 is not required in this case but we have an
>>> extra dtb file which is not really required.
>>>
>>
>> While I agree we will end up with several pre-overlayed DTB files
>> that are arguably not required as they could be later built/applied,
>> until we find a better way to check at build time these overlays
>> need applied to something as a test.
>>
>>> I have 2 more issues to point out
>>>
>>> 1)
>>> With existing examples e.g. J7200 EVM
>>> wouldn't  k3-j7200-evm.dtb include the k3-j7200-evm-quad-port-eth-exp.dtbo?
>>> Is this what we really want?
>>>
>>> likewise for k3-j721e-evm.dtb and k3-am654-gp-evm.dtb
>>>
>>
>> Yes, that is the idea, the base-board.dtb is just the raw main board, but
>> the "EVM" when you buy it comes with the quad-port daughtercard attached.
>> That is what we consider the "EVM" and the DTB names match that.
>>
>>> 2)
>>> Another issue (unrelated to this change) is the below warning:
>>>
>>>      arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am642-evm-nand.dtso:65.8-140.3: Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): /fragment at 3/__overlay__: Relying on default #address-cells value
>>>      arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am642-evm-nand.dtso:65.8-140.3: Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): /fragment at 3/__overlay__: Relying on default #size-cells value
>>>
>>> This is because we use the 'ranges' property in the gpmc0 node
>>> and the compiler doesn't know the #address/size-cells of the
>>> parent node.
>>>
>>> Is there a trick to specify it in the dtso file?
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, seems like a tricky one. Do you really need to do the ranges here?
>> Could you use the default `ranges;` for gpmc0? Then do the range translation
>> down inside the nand node to keep the partition addresses sane.
> 
> GPMC has separate address spaces per chip select.
> 
>  From Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/ti,gpmc.yaml
>    ranges:
>      minItems: 1
>      description: |
>        Must be set up to reflect the memory layout with four
>        integer values for each chip-select line in use,
>        <cs-number> 0 <physical address of mapping> <size>
> 
> The ranges location in the device tree overlay is correct. The overlay is
> meaningless without the base tree.
> 
> The correct solution would be to fix dtc so it doesn't print this warning
> for DT overlays.
> 

This may be too much and we would miss valid cases for this warning.

Maybe that is okay here, but we would need to add a warning/check
when applying overlays for mismatch sizes, right now that seems to
be missing.

Andrew

> i.e.
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/dtc/checks.c b/scripts/dtc/checks.c
> index 9f31d2607182..dcb0a6f6f3fb 100644
> --- a/scripts/dtc/checks.c
> +++ b/scripts/dtc/checks.c
> @@ -1203,6 +1203,9 @@ static void check_avoid_default_addr_size(struct check *c, struct dt_info *dti,
>          if (!reg && !ranges)
>                  return;
>   
> +       if (streq(node->name, "__overlay__"))
> +               return;
> +
>          if (node->parent->addr_cells == -1)
>                  FAIL(c, dti, node, "Relying on default #address-cells value");
> 
> 



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