Re: [PATCH V8 1/2] mtd: spi-nor: Bindings for Cadence Quad SPI Flash Controller driver.

Marek Vasut
2016-02-10T16:17:33Z

On 02/10/2016 05:10 PM, Graham Moore wrote:
> On 02/08/2016 09:27 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On Monday, February 08, 2016 at 12:19:25 PM, Vignesh R wrote:
>>> On 02/06/2016 01:12 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, February 04, 2016 at 06:30:27 PM, R, Vignesh wrote:
>>>>> On 2/4/2016 4:55 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>> Yeah, there is delay(of few ns) required between writing to
>>>>> INDIRECTWR_START bit and actually writing data to flash(i.e writesl()
>>>>> call). This is specific to TI K2G SoC and needs to be tied to the new
>>>>> binding.
>>>>
>>>> Can't you somehow poll the hardware to check whether or not it's ready
>>>> instead of adding some random delay ?
>>>
>>> There is no dedicated register to poll as such.
>>>
>>> According to TRM:
>>> "Wait for couple of cycles of QSPI_REF_CLK(functional clock of QSPI
>>> @384MHz) until CQSPI_REG_INDIRECTWR[0] bit is internally synchronized by
>>> the QSPI module before writing to flash".
>>>
>>> So, a few ns(~6ns @384MHz) delay is needed (or accessing a QSPI module
>>> register should be sufficient as it will take more than 2 clock cycles).
>>> I believe this delay is specific to TI K2G SoC and maybe needs to be
>>> tied to the binding.
>>
>> OK, got it. Dinh/Graham, can you check if this might be needed on
>> SoCFPGA too
>> please?
>>
>
> I don't see any such requirement in the data sheet. It's working
> without it. So I think it's not needed on SoCFPGA

All right, so we will just add a special property or compat string for
the TI SoC. But we need to get this driver mainlined first :)