Re: [PATCH 4/6] nvmem: sunxi_sid: Read out data in native format

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Mon Mar 18 2019 - 04:42:21 EST


Hi,

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 03:33:52PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> From: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Originally the SID e-fuses were thought to be in big-endian format.
> Later sources show that they are in fact native or little-endian.
> The most compelling evidence is the thermal sensor calibration data,
> which is a set of one to three 16-bit values. In native-endian they
> are in 16-bit cells with increasing offsets, whereas with big-endian
> they are in the wrong order, and a gap with no data will show if there
> are one or three cells.
>
> Switch to a native endian representation for the nvmem device. For the
> H3, the register read-out method was already returning data in native
> endian. This only affects the other SoCs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>

I thought only the newer SoCs were impacted by this issue?

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Maxime Ripard, Bootlin
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