Re: atmel nand bindings vs. actual dts files

[Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>]

Hi Alexander,

Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com> wrote on Tue, 30 Apr 2019 11:24:44
+0200:

> Hello Miquèl,
> 
> Am Montag, 29. April 2019, 11:55:40 CEST schrieb Miquel Raynal:
> > Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com> wrote on Thu, 07 Mar 2019 17:25:17  
> > > Am Mittwoch, 6. März 2019, 15:07:52 CET schrieb Alexander Dahl:  
> > > > So instead of "always 0x800000" that node has 0x2 as third entry for the
> > > > 'reg' property. Why is that?  
> > > 
> > > I didn't investigate that further yet, but I'm curious, so if anyone
> > > knows?  
> > 
> > I suppose the bindings [1] explain the situation.
> > 
> > [1]
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.0/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindi
> > ngs/mtd/atmel-nand.txt#L32  
> 
> No, that was not what I wanted to know. The bindings says for that reg 
> property: “3rd entry: the memory region size (always 0x800000)”
> 
> This is true for some dts files including this nand node, but not for all, 
> some have this:
> 
> 	nand@3 {
> 		reg = <0x3 0x0 0x800000>;
> 
> Others have this:
> 
> 	nand@3 {
> 		reg = <0x3 0x0 0x2>;
> 
> The second contradicts the binding doc. Most of this was changed when 
> switching from the old bindings in changeset v4.12-rc1-7-g1004a2977bdc by 
> Boris Brezillon. I wanted to know why the difference? 

Indeed. Adding Alexandre who might also have an idea and Tudor for
reference.


Thanks,
Miquèl

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