Re: [PATCH v2 02/14] dt-bindings: spi: Add bcmbca-hsspi controller support

From: William Zhang
Date: Wed Jan 25 2023 - 16:41:13 EST




On 01/25/2023 12:51 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 11:23:52AM -0800, William Zhang wrote:


On 01/24/2023 11:35 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
On 24/01/2023 23:12, William Zhang wrote:
The new Broadcom Broadband BCMBCA SoCs includes a updated HSSPI
controller. Add new compatible strings to differentiate the old and new
controller while keeping MIPS based chip with the old compatible. Update
property requirements for these two revisions of the controller. Also
add myself and Kursad as the maintainers.

Signed-off-by: William Zhang <william.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

---

Changes in v2:
- Update new compatible string to follow Broadcom convention <chip
specific compatible>, <version of the IP>, <fallback>
- Add reg-names min/maxItem constraints to be consistent with reg
property
- Make interrupts required property
- Remove double quote from spi-controller.yaml reference
- Remove brcm,use-cs-workaround flag
- Update the example with new compatile and interrupts property
- Update commit message

.../bindings/spi/brcm,bcm63xx-hsspi.yaml | 106 +++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 101 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/brcm,bcm63xx-hsspi.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/brcm,bcm63xx-hsspi.yaml
index d1a0c9adee7a..d39604654c9e 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/brcm,bcm63xx-hsspi.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/brcm,bcm63xx-hsspi.yaml
@@ -4,20 +4,73 @@
$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/spi/brcm,bcm63xx-hsspi.yaml#
$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
-title: Broadcom BCM6328 High Speed SPI controller
+title: Broadcom Broadband SoC High Speed SPI controller
maintainers:
+

This is a friendly reminder during the review process.

It seems my previous comments were not fully addressed. Maybe my
feedback got lost between the quotes, maybe you just forgot to apply it.
Please go back to the previous discussion and either implement all
requested changes or keep discussing them.

Thank you.

Yeah I forgot to remove the blank line after maintainers tag. Also
regarding the explanation of dummy cs workaround flag, we decided to remove
it as it is not necessary after discussion internally and with SPI
maintainer Mark. Let me know if I missed anything else.

+ - William Zhang <william.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
+ - Kursad Oney <kursad.oney@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@xxxxxxxxx>
-allOf:
- - $ref: spi-controller.yaml#

In your previous patch, put it already in desired place (after
"required:"), so you will not have to shuffle it.

Will update the previous patch in v3

+description: |
+ Broadcom Broadband SoC supports High Speed SPI master controller since the
+ early MIPS based chips such as BCM6328 and BCM63268. This initial rev 1.0
+ controller was carried over to recent ARM based chips, such as BCM63138,
+ BCM4908 and BCM6858. The old MIPS based chip should continue to use the
+ brcm,bcm6328-hsspi compatible string. The recent ARM based chip is required to
+ use the brcm,bcmbca-hsspi-v1.0 as part of its compatible string list as
+ defined below to match the specific chip along with ip revision info.
+
+ This rev 1.0 controller has a limitation that can not keep the chip select line
+ active between the SPI transfers within the same SPI message. This can
+ terminate the transaction to some SPI devices prematurely. The issue can be
+ worked around by either the controller's prepend mode or using the dummy chip
+ select workaround. Driver automatically picks the suitable mode based on
+ transfer type so it is transparent to the user.
+
+ The newer SoCs such as BCM6756, BCM4912 and BCM6855 include an updated SPI
+ controller rev 1.1 that add the capability to allow the driver to control chip
+ select explicitly. This solves the issue in the old controller.
properties:
compatible:
- const: brcm,bcm6328-hsspi
+ oneOf:
+ - const: brcm,bcm6328-hsspi
+ - items:
+ - enum:
+ - brcm,bcm47622-hsspi
+ - brcm,bcm4908-hsspi
+ - brcm,bcm63138-hsspi
+ - brcm,bcm63146-hsspi
+ - brcm,bcm63148-hsspi
+ - brcm,bcm63158-hsspi
+ - brcm,bcm63178-hsspi
+ - brcm,bcm6846-hsspi
+ - brcm,bcm6856-hsspi
+ - brcm,bcm6858-hsspi
+ - brcm,bcm6878-hsspi
+ - const: brcm,bcmbca-hsspi-v1.0
+ - const: brcm,bcmbca-hsspi

Why do you need "brcm,bcmbca-hsspi"? Nothing binds to it, so it's
useless and very generic.

This was from Florian's suggestion and Broadcom's convention. See [1] and
you are okay with that [2]. I added the rev compatible and you were not
objecting it finally if I understand you correctly.

Can you have a driver that only understands what 'brcm,bcmbca-hsspi' is
work on all h/w that includes the compatible string? It doesn't seem
like it since v1.1 is a completely new driver. Therefore
'brcm,bcmbca-hsspi' is pretty much useless.

'brcm,bcmbca-hsspi' should be added to the binding table of spi-bcm63xx-hsspi.c driver. This is the initial driver that works for v1.0 controller. For v1.1 controller, yes it can fallback and work with 1.0 driver spi-bcm63xx-hsspi.c simply not using the new feature in v1.1(chip select signal control through software) and keeping using the prepend mode or dummy cs workaround supported in 1.0 driver.

Really, your 'generic' fallback for v1.0 should be 'brcm,bcm6328-hsspi'
because that is the one the OS already supports. I don't know why folks
get so hung up on saying new SoC block is compatible with old SoC's
block.

The rule on using version numbers is they must correspond to something.
FPGA soft IP with released versions is a good example. I always suspect
a v1 or v1.0 is made up by the binding author.

I had discussion with our ASIC IP team and confirmed we only have two versions of HSSPI controller among all the BCA chips. Although it does not have version register in the IP block for now, version 1.0 and 1.1 is what we agreed on and ASIC team was already planning to add rev register for the new rev of this IP. So I agree it is not perfect like brcm nand controller and other block that always have rev register but I think it is good use for software to identify them in dts based on the fact there are only two revisions.

Rob

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