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From: Marek Vasut <marex-ynQEQJNshbs@public.gmane.org>
To: Michal Suchanek <hramrach-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Using SPI NOR flah on sunxi.
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:34:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201504302034.36753.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOMqctRLnCJfVCYGjsmhORYNk+HCf07wwSXnZv4oqDxbaQqKGw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>

On Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 06:56:18 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> On 30 April 2015 at 18:30,  <Thomas.Betker-Bf/A/FSCP0w3s4ca2cGeAgC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Hello Michal:
> >> I tried to connect a SPI NOR flash to my sunxi board and due to the
> > 
> > current
> > 
> >> sunxi SPI driver limitations it does not work.
> >> 
> >> The SPI driver returns an error when more than 64 bytes are
> >> transferred at once
> >> due to lack of DMA support.
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be easier to fix the SPI driver to handle transfers larger
> > than 64 bytes, filling and draining the FIFO multiple times if
> > neccessary? (As far as I can tell, most SPI drivers do this.)
> 
> Yes, the intent is to fix this by adding dma support to the driver,
> eventually.
> 
> The patch might be still useful for other hardware with developing SPI
> support.

Please just fix the controller driver to correctly handle arbitrary transfer
lengths.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-30 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-30 14:22 [PATCH 0/3] Using SPI NOR flah on sunxi Michal Suchanek
     [not found] ` <cover.1430403750.git.hramrach-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-04-30 13:33   ` [PATCH 1/3] MTD: m25p80: fix write return value Michal Suchanek
     [not found]     ` <55132b4496e7fe73f949186c0f140f3e4fd4e2c7.1430403750.git.hramrach-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-04-30 18:43       ` Marek Vasut
     [not found]         ` <201504302043.11118.marex-ynQEQJNshbs@public.gmane.org>
2015-04-30 21:37           ` Michal Suchanek
2015-04-30 13:38   ` [PATCH 2/3] MTD: spi-nor: check for short writes in spi_nor_write Michal Suchanek
     [not found]     ` <50c40ef17ab6566f35ef5a4426bf23567f896db7.1430403750.git.hramrach-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-20 23:38       ` Brian Norris
2015-05-21  8:39         ` Michal Suchanek
     [not found]           ` <CAOMqctTYqDWL51twOuGi+oXONXQ4B2-2BkdJNSpzZAXshZUN6g-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-21 10:28             ` Mark Brown
     [not found]               ` <20150521102802.GS21577-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-22  7:17                 ` Brian Norris
2015-04-30 13:46   ` [PATCH 3/3] MTD: m25p80: Add option to limit SPI transfer size Michal Suchanek
     [not found]     ` <3b0c112672f364452e80c333048161eaffb655db.1430403750.git.hramrach-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-04-30 14:58       ` Julian Calaby
     [not found]         ` <CAGRGNgXKrpJ8rc4h4BykgHsn3kfT5fuAssMK1bQJtxhVL=s2BA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-20 23:27           ` Brian Norris
2015-04-30 16:30   ` [PATCH 0/3] Using SPI NOR flah on sunxi Thomas.Betker-Bf/A/FSCP0w3s4ca2cGeAgC/G2K4zDHf
2015-04-30 16:30 ` Thomas.Betker
2015-04-30 16:30 ` Thomas.Betker
2015-04-30 16:30 ` Thomas.Betker
     [not found]   ` <OF23B05612.4290AF80-ONC1257E37.00589292-C1257E37.005AB106-Bf/A/FSCP0w3s4ca2cGeAgC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2015-04-30 16:56     ` Michal Suchanek
     [not found]       ` <CAOMqctRLnCJfVCYGjsmhORYNk+HCf07wwSXnZv4oqDxbaQqKGw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-04-30 18:34         ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2015-05-20 23:54           ` Brian Norris
2015-05-01 12:27 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]   ` <jwv4mnwfppf.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm.sunxi-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-04 10:32     ` [linux-sunxi] " Michal Suchanek

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