linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] BCMA support for brcmnand

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Message-ID: <20220123164220.58f01b76@xps13>
Date:   Sun, 23 Jan 2022 16:42:20 +0100
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        Kamal Dasu <kdasu.kdev@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Cai Huoqing <caihuoqing@...du.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list),
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org (open list:BROADCOM SPECIFIC AMBA DRIVER
        (BCMA)),
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com (open list:BROADCOM STB NAND
        FLASH DRIVER)
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] BCMA support for brcmnand

Hi Florian,

f.fainelli@...il.com wrote on Fri,  7 Jan 2022 10:46:05 -0800:

> Hi all,
> 
> This patch series adds support for the BRCMNAND controller revision 3.4
> embedded in MIPS-based SoCs such as 5357, typically found in the Netgear
> WNR3500L v2 and other kinds of Wi-Fi routers. The upstream platform that
> uses this controller is under arch/mips/bcm47xx/ and does not use Device
> Tree (and probably never will by now). BCMA (Broadcom AMBA) is a special
> kind of discoverable memory mapped interface which requires the use of
> special accessors to read from/write to the hardware block.
> 
> The integration of brcmnand into that SoC is a bit quirky in that every
> register offering byte level data about the flash (OOB, device ID, etc.)
> requires byte swapping. The command shift should also have been 24, but
> is in fact 0, took me a while to understand why no reads were actually
> working because of that.
> 
> This has been tested with Linux 5.10.82 and Linus' master with OpenWrt
> and confirmed that the squashfs + jffs2 overlay that OpenWrt creates is
> entirely functional and that written data is made persistent.

Series applied on nand/next.

Thanks,
Miquèl