[PATCHv3] mtd: gpio-nand: add device tree bindings
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Aug 2 06:39:50 EST 2011
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 21:25:36 +0100
Jamie Iles <jamie at jamieiles.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 03:12:09PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > It looks like the code uses a little-endian accessor (readw) in a couple
> > places. The instance in gpio_nand_readbuf16() should never be reached
> > since the NAND layer should never do an unaligned buffer read, but the one
> > in gpio_nand_verifybuf16() could cause problems.
[snip]
>
> OK, so for this should I just document that all accesses are
> little-endian? We can then add properties later if we need something
> different.
Right now, the driver is using a mix of native and little endian accesses.
That's not something the binding can fix. :-)
Native endian is what it should be.
> > Or perhaps the io sync address should just be a physical address, not a reg
> > that gets translated.
>
> OK, I like the sound of that. I'm a bit new to the world of device tree
> so I'm not sure of the best way to do this. Would reading the
> #address-cells property then use of_read_number() be the right way?
I'd just unconditionally define it as a 64-bit physical address.
-Scott
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