[PATCH] mtd/ifc: Add support for IFC controller version 2.0

Scott Wood oss at buserror.net
Sat Feb 13 07:21:02 AEDT 2016


On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 11:44 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 05:07:16PM -0600, Li Yang wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 12:36 AM, Raghav Dogra <raghav at freescale.com>
> > wrote:
> > > The new IFC controller version 2.0 has a different memory map page.
> > > Upto IFC 1.4 PAGE size is 4 KB and from IFC2.0 PAGE size is 64KB.
> > > This patch segregates the IFC global and runtime registers to
> > > appropriate
> > > PAGE sizes.
> > 
> > If the global registers and the runtime registers are so independent
> > that they have to be on different page boundaries, it would make more
> > sense for them to be defined as separate reg regions in the device
> > tree at the very beginning.  Then we would only need to change the
> > device tree now and it would be future proof for any page size.
> 
> To be clear: Scott, you were NACK'ing the DT binding change request,
> right? I though we had an Ack on the previous revision (that Raghav
> failed to carry).

Yes.  The patch is OK, the DT binding change (which is not in the patch) is
not.

-Scott



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