[RESEND PATCH v2 00/53] mtd: nand: denali: 2nd round of Denali NAND IP patch bomb
Boris Brezillon
boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Fri Mar 24 13:13:30 PDT 2017
Hi Masahiro,
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 05:06:59 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
> It took a couple months to update this series, but finally here is v2.
> (v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/26/144 )
>
> This driver includes many problems.
>
> One of the biggest one is a bunch of hard-coded parameters. This IP
> has many parameters that can be customized when a delivery RTL is
> generated. However, this driver was upstreamed by Intel, with
> Intel parameters hard-coded. Later, Altera added denali_dt.c to use
> this driver for embedded boards, but they did not fix the code in
> denali.c So, this driver has never worked. Even some DT bindings
> actually turned out wrong.
>
> There are more problems: [1] The driver just retrieves the OOB area as-is
> whereas the controller uses syndrome page layout. [2] Many NAND chip
> specific parameters are hard-coded in the driver. [3] ONFi devices are
> not working [4] It can not read Bad Block Marker
>
> This patch series intends to solve those problems.
>
> Since v1, here are more fixes/improvements:
> - Fix raw/oob callbacks for syndrome page layout
> - Implement setup_data_interface() callback
> - Fix/implement more commands for ONFi devices
> - Allow to skip the driver internal bounce buffer
> - Support PIO in case DMA is not supported
> - Switch from ->cmdfunc over to ->cmd_ctrl
>
>
> Masahiro Yamada (53):
> mtd: nand: allow to set only one of ECC size and ECC strength from DT
> mtd: nand: use read_oob() instead of cmdfunc() for bad block check
> mtd: nand: denali: remove unused CONFIG option and macros
> mtd: nand: denali: remove redundant define of BANK(x)
> mtd: nand: denali: remove more unused struct members
> mtd: nand: denali: fix comment of denali_nand_info::flash_mem
> mtd: nand: denali: consolidate INTR_STATUS__* and INTR_EN__* macros
> mtd: nand: denali: introduce capability flag
> mtd: nand: denali: use int where no reason to use fixed width variable
> mtd: nand: denali: fix erased page checking
> mtd: nand: denali: fix bitflips calculation in handle_ecc()
> mtd: nand: denali: support HW_ECC_FIXUP capability
> mtd: nand: denali_dt: enable HW_ECC_FIXUP for Altera SOCFPGA variant
> mtd: nand: denali: support 64bit capable DMA engine
> mtd: nand: denali_dt: remove dma-mask DT property
> mtd: nand: denali_dt: use pdev instead of ofdev for platform_device
> mtd: nand: denali: allow to override revision number
> mtd: nand: denali: use nand_chip to hold frequently accessed data
> mtd: nand: denali: call nand_set_flash_node() to set DT node
> mtd: nand: denali: do not set mtd->name
> mtd: nand: denali: move multi device fixup code to a helper function
> mtd: nand: denali: simplify multi device fixup code
> mtd: nand: denali: set DEVICES_CONNECTED 1 if not set
> mtd: nand: denali: remove meaningless writes to read-only registers
> mtd: nand: denali: remove unnecessary writes to ECC_CORRECTION
> mtd: nand: denali: support 1024 byte ECC step size
> mtd: nand: denali: avoid hard-coding ecc.strength and ecc.bytes
> mtd: nand: denali: support "nand-ecc-strength" DT property
> mtd: nand: denali: remove Toshiba and Hynix specific fixup code
> mtd: nand: denali_dt: add compatible strings for UniPhier SoC variants
> mtd: nand: denali: set NAND_ECC_CUSTOM_PAGE_ACCESS
> mtd: nand: denali: do not propagate NAND_STATUS_FAIL to waitfunc()
> mtd: nand: denali: use BIT() and GENMASK() for register macros
> mtd: nand: denali: remove unneeded find_valid_banks()
> mtd: nand: denali: handle timing parameters by setup_data_interface()
> mtd: nand: denali: remove meaningless pipeline read-ahead operation
> mtd: nand: denali: rework interrupt handling
> mtd: nand: denali: fix NAND_CMD_STATUS handling
> mtd: nand: denali: fix NAND_CMD_PARAM handling
> mtd: nand: do not check R/B# for CMD_READID in nand_command(_lp)
> mtd: nand: do not check R/B# for CMD_SET_FEATURES in nand_command(_lp)
> mtd: nand: denali: switch over to cmd_ctrl instead of cmdfunc
> mtd: nand: denali: fix bank reset function
> mtd: nand: denali: use interrupt instead of polling for bank reset
> mtd: nand: denali: propagate page to helpers via function argument
> mtd: nand: denali: merge struct nand_buf into struct denali_nand_info
> mtd: nand: denali: use flag instead of register macro for direction
> mtd: nand: denali: fix raw and oob accessors for syndrome page layout
> mtd: nand: denali: support hardware-assisted erased page detection
> mtd: nand: allocate aligned buffers if NAND_OWN_BUFFERS is unset
> mtd: nand: denali: skip driver internal bounce buffer when possible
> mtd: nand: denali: use non-managed kmalloc() for DMA buffer
> mtd: nand: denali: enable bad block table scan
Applied patch 1 to 9, 40 and 41. I'll see what else I can apply so that
you don't have to re-post the remaining 42 patches, but I fear some of
them won't apply correctly without patch 10 on which I had comments.
Thanks,
Boris
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