[PATCH v10 03/16] spi: spi-falcon: drop check of boot select

Hauke Mehrtens hauke at hauke-m.de
Mon Aug 28 04:29:33 PDT 2017


On 08/28/2017 01:23 PM, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:18:10AM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> 
>> Do not check which flash type the SoC was booted from before
>> using this driver. Assume that the device tree is correct and use this
>> driver when it was added to device tree. This also removes a build
>> dependency to the SoC code.
>>
>> All device trees I am aware of only have one correct flash device entry
>> in it. The device tree is anyway bundled with the kernel in all systems
>> using device tree I know of.
>>
>> The boot mode can be specified with some pin straps and will select the
>> flash type the rom code will boot from. One SPI, NOR or NAND flash chip
>> can be connect to the EBU and used to load the first stage boot loader
>> from.
> 
> I think other than this patch we finally have all the acks necessary so
> I merged the series except this patch which shouldn't be strictly necessary.
> 
>   Ralf
> 

Hi Ralf and Mark,

this driver will not build any more without this patch, because
ltq_boot_select() gets removed in "[PATCH v10 09/16] MIPS: lantiq:
remove ltq_reset_cause() and ltq_boot_select()"

Mark could you please have a look at the commit message if it is better now.

Hauke



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