Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] spi: cadence-quadpsi: Add support for the Cadence QSPI controller

From: Vignesh Raghavendra
Date: Tue Feb 04 2020 - 23:08:21 EST


Hi Dinh,

On 04/02/20 9:27 pm, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
[...]
>>>> Already I checked that Graham Moore <grmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> who has submitted the existing driver patches to upstream,
>>>> His mail-id is bouncing back, then I decided that you are the right
>>>> person to ask, could you please add them in loop if you know the team
>>>> (socfpga platform engineers).
>
> Thanks for including Graham, but he's moved on to a different career
> that no longer includes Linux.
>
>>> OK, done that. I mainly know them from U-Boot development, so I'm not
>>> sure
>>> who's responsible for the Linux drivers...
>> Thank you for adding the team and respective members, let's see.
>>
>
> I don't have the original patch series, but will monitor going forward.
> As long as the new driver does not break legacy SoCFPGA products that
> use the cadence-quadspi driver then it should be ok.
>

The legacy driver under drivers/mtd/spi-nor will be removed as we cannot
support both SPI NOR and SPI NAND with single driver if its under
spi-nor. New driver should be functionally equivalent to existing one.
So I suggest you test this driver on legcay SoCFPGA products.


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Regards
Vignesh