[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 19/20] configs: Don't use SPI_FLASH_BAR as default

[Jagan Teki]

On Thu, 31 Jan, 2019, 7:16 PM Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com wrote:

> On 31/01/19 7:06 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
> [...]
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_mini_qspi_defconfig        | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_zc1232_revA_defconfig      | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_zc1254_revA_defconfig      | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_zc1275_revA_defconfig      | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_zc1275_revB_defconfig      | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_zc1751_xm015_dc1_defconfig | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_zc1751_xm016_dc2_defconfig | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_zc1751_xm018_dc4_defconfig | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_zcu100_revC_defconfig      | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_zcu102_rev1_0_defconfig    | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_zcu102_revA_defconfig      | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_zcu102_revB_defconfig      | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_zcu104_revA_defconfig      | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_zcu104_revC_defconfig      | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_zcu106_revA_defconfig      | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/xilinx_zynqmp_zcu111_revA_defconfig      | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/zynq_cc108_defconfig                     | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/zynq_cse_qspi_defconfig                  | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/zynq_dlc20_rev1_0_defconfig              | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/zynq_microzed_defconfig                  | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/zynq_minized_defconfig                   | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/zynq_z_turn_defconfig                    | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/zynq_zc702_defconfig                     | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/zynq_zc706_defconfig                     | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/zynq_zc770_xm010_defconfig               | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/zynq_zc770_xm013_defconfig               | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/zynq_zed_defconfig                       | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/zynq_zybo_defconfig                      | 1 -
> >     >>  configs/zynq_zybo_z7_defconfig                   | 1 -
> >     >
> >     > zynq targets do need BAR, same has commented in previous mails.
> >
> >     Hmmm, Is this a  limitation of SPI controller on the SoC or flash on
> the
> >     board?
> >     AFAICS, zynq_spi.c, zynq_qspi.c zynq_spi.c zynqmp_gqspi.c are all
> FIFO
> >     based SPI controllers and ideally should not care about address
> length.
> >     Could you please explain why BAR is a requirement on these platforms?
> >
> >     Were you able to test this series on any of those platforms?
> >
> >
> > Go back to the log history, initial intension for adding BAR was on zynq.
> >
>
>
> Sorry, this is all I could find from mailing list (original series by
> you that adds BAR support):
> https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2013-June/157006.html
>
> There is nothing that mentions why Zynq platforms need BAR support and
> cannot use 4 byte opcodes to access >16MB space?
>

Yes, zynq qspi ia unable to handle larger than 16MiB flashes so we used BAR
to access those.

Michal, Siva: can you confirm?