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mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver
authorBoris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 08:02:40 +0000 (09:02 +0100)
committerBoris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:18:29 +0000 (14:18 +0200)
commitf88fc122cc34c2545dec9562eaab121494e401ef
tree67d2b937fbd76a958ec8ca0562ba7a4d67fdb08d
parentef980cf8b05bc862f4533fcdeae2911e6ff7027a
mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver

This is a complete rewrite of the driver whose main purpose is to
support the new DT representation where the NAND controller node is now
really visible in the DT and appears under the EBI bus. With this new
representation, we can add other devices under the EBI bus without
risking pinmuxing conflicts (the NAND controller is under the EBI
bus logic and as such, share some of its pins with other devices
connected on this bus).

Even though the goal of this rework was not necessarily to add new
features, the new driver has been designed with this in mind. With a
clearer separation between the different blocks and different IP
revisions, adding new functionalities should be easier (we already
have plans to support SMC timing configuration so that we no longer
have to rely on the configuration done by the bootloader/bootstrap).

Also note that we no longer have a custom ->cmdfunc() implementation,
which means we can now benefit from new features added in the core
implementation for free (support for new NAND operations for example).

The last thing that we gain with this rework is support for multi-chips
and multi-dies chips, thanks to the clean NAND controller <-> NAND
devices representation.

During this transition we also dropped support for AVR32 SoCs which
should soon disappear from mainline (removal of the AVR32 arch is
planned for 4.12).

This new driver has been tested on several platforms (at91sam9261,
at91sam9g45, at91sam9x5, sama5d3 and sama5d4) to make sure it did not
introduce regressions, and it's worth mentioning that old bindings are
still supported (which partly explain the positive diffstat).

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
MAINTAINERS
drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig
drivers/mtd/nand/Makefile
drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/nand-controller.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/pmecc.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/pmecc.h [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand.c [deleted file]
drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand_ecc.h [deleted file]
drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand_nfc.h [deleted file]