[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/3][repost] nand: Add Marvell Kirkwood NAND driver

Prafulla Wadaskar prafulla at marvell.com
Tue Jun 23 14:06:46 CEST 2009


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dieter Kiermaier [mailto:dk-arm-linux at gmx.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:53 PM
> To: Prafulla Wadaskar
> Cc: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD; u-boot at lists.denx.de; 
> Scott Wood; Ashish Karkare; Prabhanjan Sarnaik; Ronen Shitrit
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/3][repost] nand: Add 
> Marvell Kirkwood NAND driver
> 
> Am Dienstag 23 Juni 2009 12:38:05 schrieb Prafulla Wadaskar:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dieter Kiermaier [mailto:dk-arm-linux at gmx.de]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:18 PM
> > > To: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
> > > Cc: Prafulla Wadaskar; u-boot at lists.denx.de; Scott Wood; Ashish 
> > > Karkare; Prabhanjan Sarnaik; Ronen Shitrit
> > > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/3][repost] nand: Add Marvell 
> > > Kirkwood NAND driver
> > >
> > > Am Dienstag 23 Juni 2009 10:35:31 schrieb Jean-Christophe
> > >
> > > PLAGNIOL-VILLARD:
> > > > > > I2C lowest priority (as per need)
> > > > >
> > > > > Can I do something to push I2C priority?
> >
> > Any way this driver will be arround TWSI controller 
> interface by h/w 
> > Again if you are using different pins then may not be 
> helpful for you
> >
> I2C by hardware is ok because the pins are not multiplexed 
> with other important functions as its the case for SPI.
> And also I2C isn't _so_ important to bring up the first board 
> revision :)
> 
> > > > If the I/O is shared with gpio you can use bitbanging with few 
> > > > hours
> > >
> > > I think this would be the best to start - due to the fact that I 
> > > need bitbanging for FPGA flashing, too.
> >
> > This is a good Idea, start your development with accessing GPIO 
> > registers directly
> I start working on gpio stuff now and sending my patches to 
> you. Maybe it is helpful for others, too,

You are most welcomed as one of kirkwood developer for u-boot community
Post your patches to mailing list so that everyone can review and provide you feedback, follow u-boot development guidelines, go through u-boot development documentation..

Best of luck :-)

Regards..
Prafulla . .

> 
> Dieter
> >
> > Regards..
> > Prafulla . . .
> 
> 
> 


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