RE: [PATCH 2/2] ARM64: dts: Remove unused properties from FSL QSPI nodes

From: Pankaj Bansal
Date: Fri Aug 09 2019 - 02:19:02 EST


Hi Shawn/Leo,

Removing the "big-endian" property has caused problems in our UEFI firmware.
In UEFI, we use the device tree to detect and use the qspi controller and flashes attached to it.
We don't maintain a list of platforms like linux driver.

Can you please revert the endianness change from linux mainline ?

Regards,
Pankaj Bansal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: devicetree-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <devicetree-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On Behalf Of Schrempf Frieder
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 March, 2019 08:08 PM
> To: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx>; Leo Li <leoyang.li@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Schrempf Frieder <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx>; Rob Herring
> <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>; Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>; linux-arm-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ARM64: dts: Remove unused properties from FSL QSPI
> nodes
>
> From: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> After switching to the new FSL QSPI driver the properties 'fsl,qspi-has-second-
> chip' and 'big-endian' are not used anymore.
>
> The driver now uses the 'reg' property to determine the bus and the chipselect.
> The endianness is selected by the driver depending on which SoC is used.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1043a.dtsi | 1 -
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1046a.dtsi | 2 --
> 2 files changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1043a.dtsi
> b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1043a.dtsi
> index 6fd6116509cc..2fb8138c6bb0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1043a.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1043a.dtsi
> @@ -296,7 +296,6 @@
> interrupts = <0 99 0x4>;
> clock-names = "qspi_en", "qspi";
> clocks = <&clockgen 4 0>, <&clockgen 4 0>;
> - big-endian;
> status = "disabled";
> };
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1046a.dtsi
> b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1046a.dtsi
> index cb7185014d3a..b0ef08b090dd 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1046a.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1046a.dtsi
> @@ -215,8 +215,6 @@
> interrupts = <GIC_SPI 99 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> clock-names = "qspi_en", "qspi";
> clocks = <&clockgen 4 1>, <&clockgen 4 1>;
> - big-endian;
> - fsl,qspi-has-second-chip;
> status = "disabled";
> };
>
> --
> 2.17.1