[PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: spi: Add VIA/WonderMedia serial flash controller

Alexey Charkov alchark at gmail.com
Sat May 10 12:42:21 PDT 2025


Add a binding for the serial flash controller found on VIA/WonderMedia
SoCs, which provides semi-transparent access to SPI NOR chips by
mapping their contents to the physical CPU address space.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Charkov <alchark at gmail.com>
---
 .../devicetree/bindings/spi/via,vt8500-sflash.yaml | 122 +++++++++++++++++++++
 MAINTAINERS                                        |   1 +
 2 files changed, 123 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/via,vt8500-sflash.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/via,vt8500-sflash.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d2ea0dacdd56118c0cb5a1cb510ceb7591e1e5ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/via,vt8500-sflash.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/spi/via,vt8500-sflash.yaml#
+$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
+
+title: VIA/WonderMedia serial flash controller
+
+description:
+  This controller is used on VIA/WonderMedia SoCs such as VIA VT8500,
+  WonderMedia WM8850 and similar. It provides a semi-transparent interface
+  for reading and writing SPI NOR chip contents via a physical memory map,
+  abstracting away all SPI communication, while also providing a direct
+  mechanism for issuing "programmable commands" to the underlying SPI chip
+
+maintainers:
+  - Alexey Charkov <alchark at gmail.com>
+
+properties:
+  compatible:
+    enum:
+      - via,vt8500-sflash
+      - wm,wm8505-sflash
+      - wm,wm8650-sflash
+      - wm,wm8750-sflash
+      - wm,wm8850-sflash
+
+  reg:
+    items:
+      - description: MMIO registers region of the controller
+      - description:
+          Physical memory region within which the controller will map the
+          flash contents of chip 0 for reading and writing. If the flash
+          size is smaller than this region, it will be mapped at its end.
+          Note that if this chip is used as the boot device (as is most
+          often the case), the boot ROM maps it at the very end of the
+          CPU address space (i.e. ending at 0xffffffff)
+      - description:
+          Physical memory region within which the controller will map the
+          flash contents of chip 1 for reading and writing. If the flash
+          size is smaller than this region, it will be mapped at its end
+
+  reg-names:
+    items:
+      - const: io
+      - const: chip0-mmap
+      - const: chip1-mmap
+
+  clocks:
+    maxItems: 1
+
+  "#address-cells":
+    const: 1
+
+  "#size-cells":
+    const: 0
+
+patternProperties:
+  "^flash@[0-1]$":
+    type: object
+    additionalProperties: true
+
+    properties:
+      reg:
+        minimum: 0
+        maximum: 1
+
+required:
+  - compatible
+  - reg
+  - reg-names
+  - clocks
+
+unevaluatedProperties: false
+
+examples:
+  - |
+    sflash: spi-nor-controller at d8002000 {
+        compatible = "wm,wm8850-sflash";
+        reg = <0xd8002000 0x400>,
+              <0xff800000 0x800000>,
+              <0xef800000 0x800000>;
+        reg-names = "io", "chip0-mmap", "chip1-mmap";
+        clocks = <&clksf>;
+        #address-cells = <1>;
+        #size-cells = <0>;
+
+        flash at 0 {
+            compatible = "jedec,spi-nor";
+            reg = <0>;
+
+            partitions {
+                compatible = "fixed-partitions";
+                #address-cells = <1>;
+                #size-cells = <1>;
+
+                partition at 0 {
+                    label = "U-boot";
+                    reg = <0 0x50000>;
+                    read-only;
+                };
+
+                partition at 1 {
+                    label = "U-boot environment 1";
+                    reg = <0x50000 0x10000>;
+                };
+
+                partition at 2 {
+                    label = "U-boot environment 2";
+                    reg = <0x60000 0x10000>;
+                };
+
+                partition at 3 {
+                    label = "W-load";
+                    reg = <0x70000 0x10000>;
+                    read-only;
+                };
+            };
+        };
+    };
+
+...
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 6dbdf02d6b0c9357ad1da520a0f6c16b7f38f879..f09c457bbfc5ef71a3f8379c111bac52b767cbbc 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3475,6 +3475,7 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwinfo/via,vt8500-scc-id.yaml
 F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/wm,wm8505-i2c.yaml
 F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/via,vt8500-intc.yaml
 F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/via,vt8500-pwm.yaml
+F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/via,vt8500-sflash.yaml
 F:	arch/arm/boot/dts/vt8500/
 F:	arch/arm/mach-vt8500/
 F:	drivers/clocksource/timer-vt8500.c

-- 
2.49.0




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