Re: [PATCH 0/4] OMAP-GPMC generic timing migration

[Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>]

On 19.10.2012 17:34, Afzal Mohammed wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On Thursday 11 October 2012 05:15 PM, Daniel Mack wrote:
> 
>> Could you tell me which patches I need on top of soon-to-be-3.7-rc1? I
>> would like to augment this to make GPMC attached NAND probable in DT, in
>> case this is still an open topic.
> 
> In case you can help on making gpmc nand dt probable, please
> proceed. I would be on vacation next week, may be we can
> discuss after I am back.

Enjoy your vacation :)

> am335x based boards like beagle bone should be booting on
> l-o master and it has gpmc header cleanup changes with
> minimal driver support.
> 
> As I don't have the sufficient time to explain in detail, some
> pointers. Discussion between us [1] hopefully explains it in brief.
> It would be like peripherals connected to gpmc being represented
> as child nodes in dt. gpmc driver probably in probe would have to
> invoke of_platform_populate to create child nodes (for devices like
> nand). And driver would have to be enhanced to configure gpmc
> based on information passed through dt for each child nodes.
> Or roughly have a dt equivalent of driver as in [2].

Hmm, not sure if I follow all your thought here, but I cooked up
something that is straight-forward and works well for me. I'll post them
now, so we at least have a base for discussions ...


Daniel