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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Problem loading environment from spi-nor flash partition since barebox 2017.01.0
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:32:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170111083254.hndsbxkeh7c5x3gt@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12b302f6-75ae-bf83-370b-abaf0aef9d29@mev.co.uk>

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 04:01:40PM +0000, Ian Abbott wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I thought I'd try updating my custom SoCFPGA-based board from barebox
> 2016.11.0 to 2017.01.0, and have only run into one problem, which is that it
> is no longer loading the barebox environment during boot:
> 
> &qspi {
> 	status = "okay";
> 
> 	flash: flash@0 {
> 		#address-cells = <1>;
> 		#size-cells = <1>;
> 		compatible = "n25q00";
> 		reg = <0>;
> 		spi-max-frequency = <100000000>;
> 		m25p,fast-read;
> 		cdns,page-size = <256>;
> 		cdns,block-size = <16>;
> 		cdns,read-delay = <4>;
> 		cdns,tshsl-ns = <50>;
> 		cdns,tsd2d-ns = <50>;
> 		cdns,tchsh-ns = <4>;
> 		cdns,tslch-ns = <4>;

The problem is that your environment path points to the flash node which
does not have a driver as the corresponding device is not registered
properly.

With (real) SPI this is a little different and works as expected: If the
qspi node would be handled by the SPI layer then the SPI core would
register the child nodes as devices on a SPI bus. The normal probe
mechanism would then bind the device and the driver together.

With the cadence-quadspi driver a device is registered in
cqspi_setup_flash(), but there is never a driver attached to it, thus
the dev->driver test fails.

The proper way if probably to register the n25q00 device on a qspi bus
and to provide a qspi-nor-flash driver which gets probed then.
The not-so-proper, faster way could be to just create a dummy driver
struct and attach it to the device allocated in cqspi_setup_flash().

Sascha

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-11  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-10 16:01 Ian Abbott
2017-01-10 19:42 ` Trent Piepho
2017-01-11 11:37   ` Ian Abbott
2017-01-11  8:32 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2017-01-11 13:02   ` Ian Abbott
2017-01-13 17:46   ` Trent Piepho
2017-01-16  7:13     ` s.hauer

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