[PATCH 2/2] fsl_ifc: Support all 8 IFC chip selects

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Aug 23 03:51:40 EST 2014


On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 20:07 +0530, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
> Sorry Scott for late reply,
> 
> Please find my reply in-lined
> 
> 
> On 8/21/2014 4:51 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 09:05 +0530, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
> >> On 8/20/2014 5:38 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 16:07 -0500, Aaron Sierra wrote:
> >>>> Freescale's QorIQ T Series processors support 8 IFC chip selects
> >>>> within a memory map backward compatible with previous P Series
> >>>> processors which supported only 4 chip selects.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Aaron Sierra <asierra at xes-inc.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>    include/linux/fsl_ifc.h | 10 +++++-----
> >>>>    1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/include/linux/fsl_ifc.h b/include/linux/fsl_ifc.h
> >>>> index 84d60cb..62762ff 100644
> >>>> --- a/include/linux/fsl_ifc.h
> >>>> +++ b/include/linux/fsl_ifc.h
> >>>> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
> >>>>    #include <linux/of_platform.h>
> >>>>    #include <linux/interrupt.h>
> >>>>    
> >>>> -#define FSL_IFC_BANK_COUNT 4
> >>>> +#define FSL_IFC_BANK_COUNT 8
> >>> First please modify fsl_ifc_nand.c to limit itself to the number of
> >>> banks it dynamically determines are present based on the IFC version.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Number of available bank/chip select are defined by SoC and it is
> >> independent of SoC.
> > Do you mean defined by the SoC and independent of the IFC version?
> 
> IFC v 1.0.0 supports 4 Chip Select.
> IFC v 1.1.0 onwards, IFC supports 8 chip select.
> 
> But SoC finally defines number of chip select coming out of SoC. Like 
> LS1021A with IFC ver 1.4.0 have only 7 Chip Select.

What matters here is whether the registers are implemented, not whether
a chip select is pinned out -- so use the IFC version.

-Scott




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