[PATCH 7/8] ARM: dts: at91: sama5d2_icp: Set sst26vf064b SPI NOR flash at its maximum frequency

Tudor Ambarus tudor.ambarus at microchip.com
Thu Nov 17 02:52:48 PST 2022


sama5d2_icp populates an sst26vf064b SPI NOR flash. Its maximum operating
frequency for 2.7-3.6V is 104 MHz. As the flash is operated at 3.3V,
increase its maximum supported frequency to 104MHz. The increasing of the
spi-max-frequency value requires the setting of the
"CE# Not Active Hold Time", thus set the spi-cs-setup-ns to a value of 7.

The sst26vf064b datasheet specifies just a minimum value for the
"CE# Not Active Hold Time" and it advertises it to 5 ns. There's no
maximum time specified. I determined experimentally that 5 ns for the
spi-cs-setup-ns is not enough when the flash is operated close to its
maximum frequency and tests showed that 7 ns is just fine, so set the
spi-cs-setup-ns dt property to 7.

With the increase of frequency the reads are now faster with ~37%.

Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus at microchip.com>
---
 arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-sama5d2_icp.dts | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-sama5d2_icp.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-sama5d2_icp.dts
index dd1dec9d4e07..ffd9627874c9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-sama5d2_icp.dts
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-sama5d2_icp.dts
@@ -669,7 +669,8 @@ flash at 0 {
 		#size-cells = <1>;
 		compatible = "jedec,spi-nor";
 		reg = <0>;
-		spi-max-frequency = <80000000>;
+		spi-max-frequency = <104000000>;
+		spi-cs-setup-ns = /bits/ 16 <7>;
 		spi-tx-bus-width = <4>;
 		spi-rx-bus-width = <4>;
 		m25p,fast-read;
-- 
2.25.1




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