linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: armada-3720-espressobin: correct spi node

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Message-ID: <87h896k8vi.fsf@FE-laptop>
Date:   Mon, 03 Jun 2019 17:04:49 +0200
From:   Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>
To:     Tomasz Maciej Nowak <tmn505@...il.com>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Ellie Reeves <ellierevves@...il.com>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: armada-3720-espressobin: correct spi node

Tomasz Maciej Nowak <tmn505@...il.com> writes:

> The manufacturer of this board, ships it with various SPI NOR chips and
> increments U-Boot bootloader version along the time. There is no way to
> tell which is placed on the board since no revision bump takes place.
> This creates two issues.
>
> The first, cosmetic. Since the NOR chip may differ, there's message on
> boot stating that kernel expected w25q32dw and found different one. To
> correct this, remove optional device-specific compatible string. Being
> here lets replace bogus "spi-flash" compatible string with proper one.
>
> The second is linked to partitions layout, it changed after commit:
> 81e7251252 ("arm64: mvebu: config: move env to the end of the 4MB boot
> device") in Marvells downstream U-Boot fork [1], shifting environment
> location to the end of boot device. Since the new boards will have U-Boot
> with this change, it'll lead to improper results writing or reading from
> these partitions. We can't tell if users will update bootloader to recent
> version provided on manufacturer website, so lets drop partitons layout.
>
> 1. https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/u-boot-marvell.git
>
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Maciej Nowak <tmn505@...il.com>

Applied on mvebu/dt64

Thanks,

Gregory

> ---
>  .../dts/marvell/armada-3720-espressobin.dts    | 18 +-----------------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-3720-espressobin.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-3720-espressobin.dts
> index 6be019e1888e..fbcf03f86c96 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-3720-espressobin.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-3720-espressobin.dts
> @@ -95,25 +95,9 @@
>  
>  	flash@0 {
>  		reg = <0>;
> -		compatible = "winbond,w25q32dw", "jedec,spi-flash";
> +		compatible = "jedec,spi-nor";
>  		spi-max-frequency = <104000000>;
>  		m25p,fast-read;
> -
> -		partitions {
> -			compatible = "fixed-partitions";
> -			#address-cells = <1>;
> -			#size-cells = <1>;
> -
> -			partition@0 {
> -				label = "uboot";
> -				reg = <0 0x180000>;
> -			};
> -
> -			partition@...000 {
> -				label = "ubootenv";
> -				reg = <0x180000 0x10000>;
> -			};
> -		};
>  	};
>  };
>  
> -- 
> 2.21.0
>

-- 
Gregory Clement, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://bootlin.com