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To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
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On 09/02/2024 18:13, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Tudor,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 2:51 PM Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org> wrote:
>> There are instances of the same IP that are configured by the integrator
>> with different FIFO depths. Introduce the fifo-depth property to allow
>> such nodes to specify their FIFO depth.
>>
>> We haven't seen SPI IPs with different FIFO depths for RX and TX, thus
>> introduce a single property.
> 
> Ha...
> 
> Current documentation for the Clock-Synchronized Serial Interface with
> FIFO (MSIOF) on e.g. R-Car Gen2 and later states:
> 
>     FIFO capacity: 32 bits × 64 stages for transmission and 32 bits ×
> 256 stages for reception
> 
> Initially (many years ago), there was some doubt about the validity
> of these values (older variants on SH supported 64/64), hence
> drivers/spi/spi-sh-msiof.c still has
> 
>     .tx_fifo_size = 64,
>     .rx_fifo_size = 64,
> 
> Probably we should test and revisit this...
> 
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-controller.yaml
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-controller.yaml
>> @@ -69,6 +69,11 @@ properties:
>>           Should be generally avoided and be replaced by
>>           spi-cs-high + ACTIVE_HIGH.
>>
>> +  fifo-depth:
>> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
>> +    description:
>> +      Size of the data FIFO in bytes.
> 
> I think it is prudent to consider the asymmetric case, too.
> Whether that should be just two properties ("rx-fifo-depth" and
> "tx-fifo-depth"), or also a third "fifo-depth", I defer to the DT
> maintainers...

Since most of the cases FIFO depth tx=rx, we could go with three
properties and:

allOf:
 - not:
     required:
       - fifo-depth
       - tx-fifo-depth
 - not:
     required:
       - fifo-depth
       - rx-fifo-depth

and probably dependencies between rx and tx (see example-schema).

Best regards,
Krzysztof