From: Alexander Clouter <alex-L4GPcECwBoDe9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
To: linux-mtd-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org
Cc: hsweeten-3FF4nKcrg1dE2c76skzGb0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org,
devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: plat-nand DT support
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 21:15:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130307211508.GP1976@edkhil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130303155226.GA1976@edkhil>
Any comments...anyone?
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 03:52:26PM +0000, Alexander Clouter wrote:
>
>I have been busy porting an ARM board (that uses plat_nand) to
>devicetree and stumbled on John Crispin's patch from last year[1].
>There was not much online about how to use it, so I went about
>building upon his work it what seemed to be natural and a good fit.
>
>Attached is the work I have done to the driver its-self (including
>the much needed bindings documentation), whilst on my github page I
>have put up an example of its usage:
>
>https://github.com/jimdigriz/ts78xx/blob/gen-nand-dt/arch/arm/mach-orion5x/board-ts7800.c
>https://github.com/jimdigriz/ts78xx/blob/gen-nand-dt/arch/arm/boot/dts/orion5x-ts7800.dts
>
>Am I going in the right direction here? plat_nand, by its nature, is
>not very DT, the alternative would be a custom driver for my
>platform[2] but then are we not just littering drivers/mtd/nand
>rather than arch/arm/mach-foobar?
>
>Cheers
>
>[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-April/041025.html
>[2] could also support the NAND used by arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/ts72xx.c
> but the whole SoC has not been ported to DT
--
Alexander Clouter
.sigmonster says: The ends justify the means.
-- after Matthew Prior
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-07 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-03 15:52 plat-nand DT support Alexander Clouter
2013-03-07 21:15 ` Alexander Clouter [this message]
2013-03-09 15:29 ` Ezequiel Garcia
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2013-03-10 11:31 ` Alexander Clouter
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