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Message-ID: <20240410170040.37a59ff6@xps-13>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:00:40 +0200
From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To: Arseniy Krasnov <avkrasnov@...utedevices.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, Vignesh Raghavendra
<vigneshr@...com>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>, Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
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<linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
<linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] dt-bindings: mtd: amlogic,meson-nand: support
fields for boot ROM code
Hi Arseniy,
avkrasnov@...utedevices.com wrote on Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:48:02 +0300:
> Hi,
>
> On 10.04.2024 13:23, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> > Hi Arseniy,
> >
> > avkrasnov@...utedevices.com wrote on Tue, 9 Apr 2024 21:10:24 +0300:
> >
> >> Boot ROM code on Meson requires that some pages on NAND must be written
> >> in special mode: "short" ECC mode where each block is 384 bytes and
> >> scrambling mode is on. Such pages located with the specified interval
> >> within specified offset. Both interval and offset are located in the
> >> device tree and used by driver if 'nand-is-boot-medium' is set for
> >> NAND chip.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Arseniy Krasnov <avkrasnov@...utedevices.com>
> >> ---
> >> .../bindings/mtd/amlogic,meson-nand.yaml | 14 ++++++++++++++
> >> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/amlogic,meson-nand.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/amlogic,meson-nand.yaml
> >> index 57b6957c8415..b86a1953056b 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/amlogic,meson-nand.yaml
> >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/amlogic,meson-nand.yaml
> >> @@ -64,11 +64,25 @@ patternProperties:
> >> items:
> >> maximum: 0
> >>
> >> + amlogic,boot-page-last:
> >> + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> >> + description:
> >> + The NFC driver needs this information to select ECC
> >> + algorithms supported by the boot ROM.
> >
> > Shall we have a length rather than the last page?
>
> You mean rename it to "amlogic,boot-pages-length" or something like that ? But I think
> length in bytes is useless here:
> 1) boot rom needs that only some single pages are written in special mode (and as I see in
> vendor's driver it also works in pages).
> 2) NAND driver operates in pages during write/read such pages.
>
> So length in bytes will be converted to pages anyway.
>
> What do You think ?
I didn't talk about units :-)
Maybe: amlogic,boot-pages would make sense? But pointing at the last
page seems weird.
Miquèl
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