[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 05/10] SPI: Add Dove SPI driver

[Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>]

On 06/25/2013 10:38 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Sebastian Hesselbarth<sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>  writes:
> [...]
>> I was under the impression that you resent the patches because you have
>> a CuBox you want to get supported.
>
> Exactly. I'd like to see support for CuBox enter mainline
> U-Boot. However, there's also a limit to the amount of time I can afford
> to spend on it (both per week and in total). TBH, I would have hoped the
> _vendor_ (SolidRun) would take a more active role in this. For that
> reason I'm now going to evaluate a Wandboard Quad, where more effort
> seems to get spent on upstreaming (not to mention that the schematics
> are available, which makes working on board support a lot easier). When
> I ordered the CuBox Pro, the then-existing Wandboard variants (Solo and
> DualLite) lacked SATA support, but the Quad meets my requirements.

 From what I know, Rabeeh would love to add support for CuBox to u-boot.
But I guess his spare time is very limited, too.

>> Naming was the main discussion of this patch set back then, there have
>> been some "???" on the mpp stuff. I suggested  several times not to use
>> "mv" as I knew that Marvell PXA also uses "mv" as prefix all over.
>>
>> The PXA SPI controller is based on different IP. Unfortunately PXA
>> naming is not consitent over SoCs, Dove is also nick-named PXA510
>> sometimes.
>>
>> Actually, we are merging Orion SoCs and Armada 370/XP to mach-mvebu -
>> so the best name would be mvebu_spi as the spi controller is also in
>> Armada 370/XP.
>
> You're confusing me even more than I already was. :)
>
> It's probably best to leave this reorganisation to someone else who
> better knows the relationships between the several SoC families from
> Marvell.

Linux has some good overview of the non-PXA Marvell SoCs. Naming is
a mess and IP is reused often. But from what I can say, Orion matches
Dove, Kirkwood, Orion5x, and Discovery Innovation (mv78x00). Armada
370/XP share some of the peripheral IP but especially irq is different.

With respect to SPI, mvebu (Orion + Armada 370/XP) maybe matches best
as it is used in all of them with minor differences. PXA type SoCs use
a different IP for SPI.

> [...]
>> Uhm, did you forget to send code?
>
> No, I was holding back until I knew whether you still feel comfortable
> being associated with the patches. I'll send them out now.

Ok, I will try to give it a review at least.

Sebastian