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[1/2] dt-bindings: spi: dw: add compatible for Alpine spi controller

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Series [1/2] dt-bindings: spi: dw: add compatible for Alpine spi controller | expand

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Talel Shenhar Oct. 10, 2018, 3:15 p.m. UTC 
This compatible adds the ability for dw spi controller driver to work with
the dw spi controller found on Alpine chips.

The dw spi controller has an auto-deselect of Chip-Select, in case there is
no data inside the Tx FIFO. While working on platforms with Alpine chips,
auto-deselect mode causes an issue for some spi devices that can't handle
the Chip-Select deselect in the middle of a transaction. It is a normal
behavior for a Tx FIFO to be empty in the middle of a transaction, due to
busy cpu. In the Alpine chip family an option to change the default
behavior was added to the original dw spi controller to prevent this issue
of de-asserting Chip-Select once TX FIFO is empty. The change was to allow
SW manual control of the Chip-Select. With this change, as long as the
Slave Enable Register is asserted, the Chip-Select will be asserted. As a
result, it is necessary to deselect the Slave Select Register once the
transaction is done. This feature is enabled via a new device compatible
string called 'al,alpine-dw-apb-ssi'.  Once the driver identifies the new
compatible string, it enables the hw fixup logic, by writing to a dedicated
register found in the IP reserved area and will start manual deselecting
the Slave Select Register when the transfer ends.

Signed-off-by: Talel Shenhar <talel@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
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 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/snps,dw-apb-ssi.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Trent Piepho Oct. 10, 2018, 10:08 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Wed, 2018-10-10 at 18:15 +0300, Talel Shenhar wrote:
> Add support for a new devicetree compatible string called
> 'al,alpine-apb-ssi', which is necessary for the Amazon Alpine spi
> controller. 'al,alpine-dw-apb-ssi' is used in the dw spi driver if
> specified in the devicetree.  Otherwise, fall back to driver default
> behavior, i.e. original dw IP hw driver behavior.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Talel Shenhar <talel@amazon.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>

Shouldn't this be "amzn,alpine-apb-ssi"?  The convention, and this IS
documented, is to the use company's stock ticker symbol as the prefix,
so as to have something grounded in the real world.  I don't know of
anyone else using a product line name as the company name in their dt
bindings.  Example, "snps,dw-apb-ssi", is named for Synopsis, not the
Designware line.
Talel Shenhar Oct. 11, 2018, 11:22 a.m. UTC | #2 
On 10/11/2018 01:08 AM, Trent Piepho wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-10-10 at 18:15 +0300, Talel Shenhar wrote:
>> Add support for a new devicetree compatible string called
>> 'al,alpine-apb-ssi', which is necessary for the Amazon Alpine spi
>> controller. 'al,alpine-dw-apb-ssi' is used in the dw spi driver if
>> specified in the devicetree.  Otherwise, fall back to driver default
>> behavior, i.e. original dw IP hw driver behavior.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Talel Shenhar <talel@amazon.com>
>> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
> Shouldn't this be "amzn,alpine-apb-ssi"?  The convention, and this IS
> documented, is to the use company's stock ticker symbol as the prefix,
> so as to have something grounded in the real world.  I don't know of
> anyone else using a product line name as the company name in their dt
> bindings.  Example, "snps,dw-apb-ssi", is named for Synopsis, not the
> Designware line.
>
updated the vendor prefix to "amazon" as described in bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt.
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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/snps,dw-apb-ssi.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/snps,dw-apb-ssi.txt
index 642d3fb..d25b1f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/snps,dw-apb-ssi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/snps,dw-apb-ssi.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@  Synopsys DesignWare AMBA 2.0 Synchronous Serial Interface.
 
 Required properties:
 - compatible : "snps,dw-apb-ssi" or "mscc,<soc>-spi", where soc is "ocelot" or
-  "jaguar2"
+  "jaguar2", or "al,alpine-dw-apb-ssi"
 - reg : The register base for the controller. For "mscc,<soc>-spi", a second
   register set is required (named ICPU_CFG:SPI_MST)
 - interrupts : One interrupt, used by the controller.