On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 00:08 +0200, ext Tony Lindgren wrote: > Hi all, > > There are several omap NAND patches pending, but some basic things > should be fixed first. > > 1. The NAND driver needs to stop tinkering with the GPMC registers > > The omap General Purpose Memory Controller (GPMC) registers are omap > specific, and not driver specific. Tinkering with these registers > can cause issues with the other devices on the GPMC. > > To find out what needs to disappear fomr the NAND driver, just do: > > $ grep baseaddr drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c > > Any GPMC register tinkering needs to happen in arch/arm/mach-omap2/gpmc.c. > If there are not currently GPMC functions to do something in gpmc.c, then > let's add the necessary support there. > > 2. Passing hardcoded GPMC_CS0_BASE needs to go from the board files > > Passing hardcoded GPMC virtual addressess is sure way to mess up > things. This should all become unnecessary once the NAND drivers > stops messing with the GPMC registers directly. > > So, as a result, I'm not planning on pushing any omap NAND related > patches until these basic issues are fixed. I'll mark these patches > as "Changes requested" in patchwork.kernel.org even if these patches > don't have anything else wrong with them. > > Let's fix the basic things for good, and put the other patches on > hold for a while. Sorry if this causes problems!
Hi, fair enough. I guess Vimal should address this, as he seems to be the TI mr. NAND, right? :-) -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
