Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751270AbbHTJCK (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2015 05:02:10 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:43480 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751364AbbHTJCB (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2015 05:02:01 -0400 X-Auth-Info: ZcwY1h/iai8Qo0wrxuA3z6Pf4m0PtZqq5xX23sko3Pg= From: Marek Vasut To: Viet Nga Dao Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PATCH v4] mtd:spi-nor: Add Altera Quad SPI Driver Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:48:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.14-2-amd64; KDE/4.13.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Brian Norris , David Woodhouse , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" References: <201508200955.20067.marex@denx.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201508201048.10731.marex@denx.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2521 Lines: 64 On Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 10:06:29 AM, Viet Nga Dao wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: > > On Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 09:37:33 AM, Viet Nga Dao wrote: > >> Hi, > > > > Hi, > > > >> >> On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 03:24:44 AM, Brian Norris wrote: > >> >>> I'm not very helpful here, so hopefully Viet can be of more use: > >> >> Yup :) > >> >> > >> >>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 07:53:23PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > >> >>> > On Monday, August 17, 2015 at 06:03:38 PM, Brian Norris wrote: > >> >>> > Also, I cannot find any documentation for this IP block even if I > >> >>> > search through Quartus/QSys, is there any proper documentation > >> >>> > available anywhere? > >> >>> > >> >>> I never found proper documentation, but I didn't look too hard. I've > >> >>> mostly been going off of Viet's comments and code. > >> >> > >> >> Me neither, and I looked through the altera stuff in fact. I'm trying > >> >> to learn whether this is just an Soft IP, in which case it certainly > >> >> can be fixed ; or if there is actually some chip shipping with this > >> >> crap synthesised into actual silicon. > >> >> > >> >>> But FWIW, I did find some relevant info for the peculiar Altera EPCQ > >> >>> flash here: > >> >>> > >> >>> https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_US/pdfs/lite > >> >>> ra ture/ > >> >>> hb/cfg/cfg_cf52012.pdf > >> >> > >> >> Altera EPCS/EPCQ flashes are just rebranded micron flashes, they just > >> >> have different JEDEC >ID and are a bit more expensive. > >> > > >> > You can find the document at here > >> > (https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_US/pdfs/liter > >> > atu re/ug/ug_embedded_ip.pdf) > >> > > >> > Chapter 42.Page 407. > >> > > >> > For the soft IP issue, i've requested hardware engineer to come out > >> > the solution. > > > > That's good :) > > > >> > So in the mean way, our driver will NOT support Micron > >> > flashes until hardware fix is completed. > > > > This doesn't answer my question, so let me reiterate. Is this controller > > only Soft IP (as in, FPGA core) or is this controller shipping in some > > chip as Hard IP (as in, piece of silicon) ? > > This is new soft IP. I see, thanks ! Best regards, Marek Vasut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/