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On 23.11.2018 13:27, Jagan Teki wrote:
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 1:51 AM sjg@google.com wrote:
On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 12:40, Simon Goldschmidt simon.k.r.goldschmidt@gmail.com wrote:
On 31.10.2018 07:42, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 7:22 AM Jagan Teki jagan@amarulasolutions.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 1:40 AM Simon Goldschmidt simon.k.r.goldschmidt@gmail.com wrote:
When the device tree is missing a correct spi slave description below the bus (compatible "spi-flash" or spi-max-frequency are missing), the 'set_speed' callback can be called with 'speed' == 0 Hz. At least with cadence qspi, this leads to a division by zero.
Prevent this by initializing speed to 100 kHz in this case (same fallback value as is done in 'dm_spi_claim_bus') and issue a warning to console.
Why can't driver plat->frequency in cadence driver initialize 100KH? plat->frequency = fdtdec_get_int(blob, node, "spi-max-frequency", 100000)
I'm not sure I understand. The cadence driver initializes its 'plat->max_hz' from "spi-max-frequency" property and defaults to 500 kHz. No problem there.
However, the problem I want to solve is if someone puts a flash chip below there which has compatible != "spi-flash", they will get a hard fault which is hard to debug. This is because the node is not parsed because of the wrong compatible string (even if there is an "spi-max-frequency" property) and thus, "sf probe" tries to continue with 0 Hz.
And this can happen easily when porting device trees from Linux as there, the boards have compatible "n25q00" etc. instead of "spi-flash", which is U-Boot specific (sadly).
This patch is not required to make valid U-Boot devicetrees work, it is meant to get better error handling for devicetrees ported from Linux.
An even better fix would be for U-Boot not to require the compatible = "spi-flash" string but just work correctly with Linux device trees, but that's not within my possibilities right now :-(
Ping? This is a bug that should hit nearly everyone porting a board dts working in Linux to U-Boot, can we please have some kind of fix for this? Currently, using a dts with an spi flash chip that works in Linux may abort in U-Boot...
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
Applied to u-boot-dm/master, thanks!
I hold this because, there is a discussion going on with me and Simon.k about Linux compatible "jedec,spi-nor". adding support for this binding would eventually not reproduce this issue.
That's not completely true. Adding "jedec,spi-nor" to U-Boot would definitively make it less likely to run into this issue.
However, Linux works correctly without "jedec,spi-nor", so people can still run into problems when porting a dts from Linux. This is why I still would like to get this in.
Simon