Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:33:43 +0100 | From | Antoine Tenart <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/9] mtd: pxa3xx_nand: add support for the Marvell Berlin nand controller |
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Robert,
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:50:41PM +0100, Robert Jarzmik wrote: > Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> writes: > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:10:12 +0100 > > Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> wrote: > > > >> The nand controller on Marvell Berlin SoC reuse the pxa3xx nand driver > >> as it quite close. The process of sending commands can be compared to > >> the one of the Marvell armada 370: read and write commands are done in > >> chunks. > >> > >> But the Berlin nand controller has some other specificities which > >> require some modifications of the pxa3xx nand driver: > >> - there are no IRQ available so we need to poll the status register: we > >> have to use our own cmdfunc Berlin function, and early on the probing > >> function. > >> - PAGEPROG are very different from the one used in the pxa3xx driver, > >> so we're using a specific process for this one > >> - the SEQIN command is equivalent to a READ0 command > >> - the RNDOUT command must be used to perform a read operation, and the > >> command is not NAND_CMD_RNDOUT > >> - the ERASE1 command is specific (0xd060) > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> > > Given all the differences, the PIO mode instead of the current interrupt model, > and the berlin specific functions (nand_start, ...), wouldn't it be an idea to : > - extract the common functions to mrvl-nand-lib.c > - the remaining would be in pxa3xx_nand.c > - the new code will be in berlin_nand.c > > All these ifs per variant will add complexity to the current driver, won't they > ?
Given the current state of this driver I believe this would be a better idea to first rework it to use the nand framework properly. Then it will be possible to have a look on what we have, to decide whether or not a mrvl-nand-lib is needed.
Antoine
-- Antoine Ténart, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com
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