Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 00/53] mtd: nand: denali: 2nd round of Denali NAND IP patch bomb

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Masahiro,

On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 05:06:59 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro-uWyLwvC0a2jby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> It took a couple months to update this series, but finally here is v2.
> (v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/26/144 )
> 
> This driver includes many problems.
> 
> One of the biggest one is a bunch of hard-coded parameters.  This IP
> has many parameters that can be customized when a delivery RTL is
> generated.  However, this driver was upstreamed by Intel, with
> Intel parameters hard-coded.  Later, Altera added denali_dt.c to use
> this driver for embedded boards, but they did not fix the code in
> denali.c  So, this driver has never worked.  Even some DT bindings
> actually turned out wrong.
> 
> There are more problems: [1] The driver just retrieves the OOB area as-is
> whereas the controller uses syndrome page layout. [2] Many NAND chip
> specific parameters are hard-coded in the driver. [3] ONFi devices are
> not working  [4] It can not read Bad Block Marker
> 
> This patch series intends to solve those problems.
> 
> Since v1, here are more fixes/improvements:
>  - Fix raw/oob callbacks for syndrome page layout
>  - Implement setup_data_interface() callback
>  - Fix/implement more commands for ONFi devices
>  - Allow to skip the driver internal bounce buffer
>  - Support PIO in case DMA is not supported
>  - Switch from ->cmdfunc over to ->cmd_ctrl
> 
> 
> Masahiro Yamada (53):
>   mtd: nand: allow to set only one of ECC size and ECC strength from DT
>   mtd: nand: use read_oob() instead of cmdfunc() for bad block check
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove unused CONFIG option and macros
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove redundant define of BANK(x)
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove more unused struct members
>   mtd: nand: denali: fix comment of denali_nand_info::flash_mem
>   mtd: nand: denali: consolidate INTR_STATUS__* and INTR_EN__* macros
>   mtd: nand: denali: introduce capability flag
>   mtd: nand: denali: use int where no reason to use fixed width variable
>   mtd: nand: denali: fix erased page checking
>   mtd: nand: denali: fix bitflips calculation in handle_ecc()
>   mtd: nand: denali: support HW_ECC_FIXUP capability
>   mtd: nand: denali_dt: enable HW_ECC_FIXUP for Altera SOCFPGA variant
>   mtd: nand: denali: support 64bit capable DMA engine
>   mtd: nand: denali_dt: remove dma-mask DT property
>   mtd: nand: denali_dt: use pdev instead of ofdev for platform_device
>   mtd: nand: denali: allow to override revision number
>   mtd: nand: denali: use nand_chip to hold frequently accessed data
>   mtd: nand: denali: call nand_set_flash_node() to set DT node
>   mtd: nand: denali: do not set mtd->name
>   mtd: nand: denali: move multi device fixup code to a helper function
>   mtd: nand: denali: simplify multi device fixup code
>   mtd: nand: denali: set DEVICES_CONNECTED 1 if not set
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove meaningless writes to read-only registers
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove unnecessary writes to ECC_CORRECTION
>   mtd: nand: denali: support 1024 byte ECC step size
>   mtd: nand: denali: avoid hard-coding ecc.strength and ecc.bytes
>   mtd: nand: denali: support "nand-ecc-strength" DT property
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove Toshiba and Hynix specific fixup code
>   mtd: nand: denali_dt: add compatible strings for UniPhier SoC variants
>   mtd: nand: denali: set NAND_ECC_CUSTOM_PAGE_ACCESS
>   mtd: nand: denali: do not propagate NAND_STATUS_FAIL to waitfunc()
>   mtd: nand: denali: use BIT() and GENMASK() for register macros
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove unneeded find_valid_banks()
>   mtd: nand: denali: handle timing parameters by setup_data_interface()
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove meaningless pipeline read-ahead operation
>   mtd: nand: denali: rework interrupt handling
>   mtd: nand: denali: fix NAND_CMD_STATUS handling
>   mtd: nand: denali: fix NAND_CMD_PARAM handling
>   mtd: nand: do not check R/B# for CMD_READID in nand_command(_lp)
>   mtd: nand: do not check R/B# for CMD_SET_FEATURES in nand_command(_lp)
>   mtd: nand: denali: switch over to cmd_ctrl instead of cmdfunc
>   mtd: nand: denali: fix bank reset function
>   mtd: nand: denali: use interrupt instead of polling for bank reset
>   mtd: nand: denali: propagate page to helpers via function argument
>   mtd: nand: denali: merge struct nand_buf into struct denali_nand_info
>   mtd: nand: denali: use flag instead of register macro for direction
>   mtd: nand: denali: fix raw and oob accessors for syndrome page layout
>   mtd: nand: denali: support hardware-assisted erased page detection
>   mtd: nand: allocate aligned buffers if NAND_OWN_BUFFERS is unset
>   mtd: nand: denali: skip driver internal bounce buffer when possible
>   mtd: nand: denali: use non-managed kmalloc() for DMA buffer
>   mtd: nand: denali: enable bad block table scan

Applied patch 1 to 9, 40 and 41. I'll see what else I can apply so that
you don't have to re-post the remaining 42 patches, but I fear some of
them won't apply correctly without patch 10 on which I had comments.

Thanks,

Boris
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