[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] spi: Add support for the Aspeed ast2500 SPI controllers

[Jagan Teki]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 11:32 AM Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org> wrote:
>
> On 10/4/18 5:57 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 5:20 PM Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello Simon,
> >>
> >>
> >> The Aspeed AST2500 FMC controller can handle SPI flash and NOR flash memory,
> >> and the Aspeed AST2500 SPI Flash Controllers only SPI. If there is some
> >> misunderstanding on this driver, it might come from the fact it is closer
> >> to a SPI-NOR driver like we have in Linux, than a generic SPI driver.
> >> The stm32 SPI driver is somewhat similar.
> >>
> >> Should we move it under drivers/mtd/spi/ maybe ?
> >
> > Seems with new spi-mem in Linux flash memory driver rely on spi-mem
> > instead of mtd/spi-nor. So I think you can handle this via new
> > spi-mem. have you send any patches to Linux?
>
> No, not yet. The patchset is sent  :
>
>         https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/933293/
>
> is not using spimem. I was not aware of that change in the spi-nor layer
> at the time. I will take a look.

Yes, but for newly added drivers. added spi-mem guys, may be they can comment.