From: Bill Pringlemeir <bpringlemeir@nbsps.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] mtd: nand: add Freescale NFC driver
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:26:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tsjkv0b.fsf@nbsps.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1407970493.7427.192.camel@snotra.buserror.net> (Scott Wood's message of "Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:54:53 -0500")
On 13 Aug 2014, scottwood at freescale.com wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-08-13 at 17:44 -0400, Bill Pringlemeir wrote:
>> Regarding "can't know in advance", I think that some of the register
>> values maybe set by the boot rom. This might make more sense for
>> Linux than U-Boot. However, after the initial configuration, many do
>> need the 'read/modify/write' as there are many bit fields with
>> different functionality.
> If the register is only modified by software, and not asynchronously
> by hardware, then you could read the value once when the driver
> starts, and cache its value to avoid a reportedly expensive I/O access
> every time you need to modify it.
Yes, that is a good point. The regmap interface could be used in the
Linux kernel. I don't see any infrastructure like that in U-Boot? It
is fairly simple to re-invent as this driver only needs the flat
structure.
Regards,
Bill Pringlemeir.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-14 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-06 8:59 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] arm: vf610: add NAND flash support Stefan Agner
2014-08-06 8:59 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] arm: vf610: add NFC pin mux Stefan Agner
2014-08-30 15:14 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot,1/4] " Tom Rini
2014-08-06 8:59 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] arm: vf610: add NFC clock support Stefan Agner
2014-08-30 15:14 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot,2/4] " Tom Rini
2014-08-06 8:59 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] mtd: nand: add Freescale NFC driver Stefan Agner
2014-08-06 23:01 ` Bill Pringlemeir
2014-08-11 22:33 ` Scott Wood
2014-08-12 21:13 ` Stefan Agner
2014-08-12 22:17 ` Scott Wood
2014-08-12 22:58 ` Bill Pringlemeir
2014-08-13 8:13 ` Stefan Agner
2014-08-13 11:20 ` Stefan Agner
2014-08-13 15:14 ` Bill Pringlemeir
2014-08-13 16:27 ` Stefan Agner
2014-08-13 17:11 ` Bill Pringlemeir
2014-08-13 20:32 ` Scott Wood
2014-08-13 20:41 ` Scott Wood
2014-08-13 21:44 ` Bill Pringlemeir
2014-08-13 22:54 ` Scott Wood
2014-08-14 14:26 ` Bill Pringlemeir [this message]
2014-08-06 8:59 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] arm: vf610: add NAND support for vf610twr Stefan Agner
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=871tsjkv0b.fsf@nbsps.com \
--to=bpringlemeir@nbsps.com \
--cc=u-boot@lists.denx.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox