Xilinx SYSACE driver and 8-bit attachment

[Stephen Neuendorffer]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: devicetree-discuss-bounces+stephen.neuendorffer=xilinx.com at lists.ozlabs.org [mailto:devicetree-
> discuss-bounces+stephen.neuendorffer=xilinx.com at lists.ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of Grant Likely
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 7:53 AM
> To: John Linn
> Cc: David DeBonis; Stephen Neuendorffer; devicetree-discuss; Linux Kernel list; Michal Simek; John
> Linn; John Williams
> Subject: Re: Xilinx SYSACE driver and 8-bit attachment
> 
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:42 AM, John Linn <John.Linn at xilinx.com> wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: John Linn
> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 8:24 AM
> >> To: 'Grant Likely'; John Williams
> >> Cc: Linux Kernel list; Michal Simek; David DeBonis; Stephen Neuendorffer; devicetree-discuss
> >> Subject: RE: Xilinx SYSACE driver and 8-bit attachment
> >>
> >> I'll look to see if something has changed.  It's not clear to me if it has ever been right.
> >>
> >> It look like we normally use 16 bit mode as that's how BSB generates the system by default.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> John
> >>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: glikely at secretlab.ca [mailto:glikely at secretlab.ca] On Behalf Of Grant Likely
> >> > Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 7:35 AM
> >> > To: John Williams
> >> > Cc: Linux Kernel list; Michal Simek; John Linn; David DeBonis; Stephen Neuendorffer; devicetree-
> >> > discuss
> >> > Subject: Re: Xilinx SYSACE driver and 8-bit attachment
> >> >
> >> > [Added devicetree-discuss to cc: list]
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:13 AM, John Williams
> >> > <john.williams at petalogix.com> wrote:
> >> > > Hi Grant (it's your driver :) and David D ( and your DTS generator :)
> >> > [...]
> >> > > if (of_find_property(op->node, "8-bit", NULL))
> >> > [...]
> >> > > doesn't match the properties generated by Xilinx's device tree generator:
> >> > [...]
> >> > >                         xlnx,mem-width = <0x8>;
> >
> > Do you know if the 8 bit mode was ever tested with the "8-bit" property in the tree?
> >
> > I don't see anything in the device tree generator history to say we ever did that "8-bit", but
> maybe I'm missing something.
> >
> > We are just generating the parameters from the h/w and the memory width is it.  We can always put
> something in there special, but it seems silly if it was never used anyway.
> 
> Don't forget that Virtex and Microblaze are not the only users of this
> driver.   There is a AMCC 440 board which uses the sysace as a CF
> adapter.  8-bit was definitely tested and is in use.

In this case, I'm pretty sure this tag was never automatically generated by the DTS generator.
Personally, I think it's bad practice to always assume that the device tree generator should be modified to match what a Linux driver is expecting, however given the precedence in this case,
I agree that it might be reasonable to put a special case in to generate this.

Steve
 

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