Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] spi: add dual parallel & stacked mode support in Zynq MPSoC GQSPI controller

Mike Looijmans
2015-07-10T08:28:59Z

﻿On 09-07-15 14:44, Ranjit Waghmode wrote:
> This series of patches is to add dual parallel and stacked mode support for
> Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC GQSPI controller driver.
>
> These are all very high level changes and expected to make an idea clear.
> Comments and suggestions are welcomed.
>
...
>
> What is stacked mode?
> ---------------------
> ZynqMP GQSPI controller supports stacked mode with following functionalities:
> 1) The Generic Quad-SPI controller also supports two SPI flash memories
> in a shared bus arrangement to reduce IO pin count.
> 2) Separate chip select lines
> 3) Shared I/O lines
> 4) This mode is targeted for increasing the flash memory and no performance
> improvement when compared with single.

One could also model the stacked mode as having two distinct flash chips with
separate chip selects and shared lines.
Merging them into a single storage device can be done on block layer or higher
level. This allows the flash chips to be used in any configuration using
existing support for concatenating multiple devices.
I think this would be a more generic way of doing this. It also allows much
more flexibility, for example the devices could be used in a mirror setup, or
in combination with additional devices on other controllers.

Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert

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