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SubjectRE: [v3 4/4] spi: aspeed: Add ASPEED FMC/SPI memory controller driver
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Hi Mark,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:43 AM
> To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
> Subject: Re: [v3 4/4] spi: aspeed: Add ASPEED FMC/SPI memory controller
> driver
>
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 04:11:32PM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> wrote:
>
> > > Thanks for this driver. It's much cleaner than the previous and we
> > > should try adding support for the AST2500 SoC also. I guess we can
> > > keep the old driver for the AST2400 which has a different register layout.
> > >
> > > On the patchset, I think we should split this patch in three :
> > >
> > > - basic support
> > > - AHB window calculation depending on the flash size
> > > - read training support
>
> > I didn't look closely at the implementation, but if the read training
> > tries to read a section of the NOR, I'd recommend exposing that
> > feature through spi-mem and letting the SPI-NOR framework trigger the
> > training instead of doing that at dirmap creation time (remember that
> > spi-mem is also used for SPI NANDs which use the dirmap API too, and
> > this training is unlikely to work there).
>
> > The SPI-NOR framework could pass a read op template and a reference
> > pattern such that all the spi-mem driver has to do is execute the
> > template op and compare the output to the reference buffer.
>
> That seems like a good idea.

Yes, this idea will be implemented on the next patch version.

>
> > > We should avoid magic values when setting registers. This is
> > > confusing and defines are much better.
>
> It does depend a bit on documentation though, it's not a hard requirement.

I will update it on the next patch version.



Thanks.

Best Wishes,
Chin-Ting

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