plat-nand DT support

[Alexander Clouter]

Any comments...anyone?

On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 03:52:26PM +0000, Alexander Clouter wrote:
>
>I have been busy porting an ARM board (that uses plat_nand) to 
>devicetree and stumbled on John Crispin's patch from last year[1].  
>There was not much online about how to use it, so I went about 
>building upon his work it what seemed to be natural and a good fit.
>
>Attached is the work I have done to the driver its-self (including 
>the much needed bindings documentation), whilst on my github page I 
>have put up an example of its usage:
>
>https://github.com/jimdigriz/ts78xx/blob/gen-nand-dt/arch/arm/mach-orion5x/board-ts7800.c
>https://github.com/jimdigriz/ts78xx/blob/gen-nand-dt/arch/arm/boot/dts/orion5x-ts7800.dts
>
>Am I going in the right direction here?  plat_nand, by its nature, is 
>not very DT, the alternative would be a custom driver for my 
>platform[2] but then are we not just littering drivers/mtd/nand 
>rather than arch/arm/mach-foobar?
>
>Cheers
>
>[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-April/041025.html
>[2] could also support the NAND used by arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/ts72xx.c 
>	but the whole SoC has not been ported to DT

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Alexander Clouter
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