[PATCH v13 1/3] dt-bindings: mtd: Describe MTD partitions concatenation

[Amit Kumar Mahapatra]

The AMD QSPI controller supports an advanced connection modes called
Stacked mode which allow the controller to treat two different flashes
as one storage.

In Stacked connection mode flashes share the same SPI bus, but different CS
line, controller driver asserts the CS of the flash to which it needs to
communicate. Stacked mode is a software abstraction rather than a
controller feature or capability. At any given time, the controller
communicates with one of the two connected flash devices, as determined by
the requested address and data length. If an operation starts on one flash
and ends on the other, the mtd layer needs to split it into two separate
operations and adjust the data length accordingly. For more information on
the modes please feel free to go through the controller flash interface
below [1].

To support stacked mode, the existing MTD concat driver has been extended
to be more generic, enabling multiple sets of MTD partitions to be
virtually concatenated, with each set forming a distinct logical MTD
device.

A new Device Tree property is introduced to facilitate this, containing
phandles of the partitions to be concatenated with the one where the
property is defined. This approach supports multiple sets of concatenated
partitions.

[1] https://docs.amd.com/r/en-US/am011-versal-acap-trm/QSPI-Flash-Device-Interface

Suggested-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com>
Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Mahapatra <amit.kumar-mahapatra at amd.com>
---
 .../bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml     | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml
index 80d0452a2a33..2ef4bde02cd9 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml
@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ properties:
       user space from
     type: boolean
 
+  part-concat-next:
+    description: List of phandles to MTD partitions that need be concatenated
+      with the current partition.
+    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle-array
+    minItems: 1
+    maxItems: 16
+
   align:
     $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
     minimum: 2
@@ -138,4 +145,15 @@ examples:
             reg = <0x200000 0x100000>;
             align = <0x4000>;
         };
+
+        part0: partition at 400000 {
+            part-concat-next = <&part1>;
+            label = "part0_0";
+            reg = <0x400000 0x100000>;
+        };
+
+        part1: partition at 800000 {
+            label = "part0_1";
+            reg = <0x800000 0x800000>;
+        };
     };
-- 
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