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SubjectRe: [PATCH] dt-bindings: nand: denali: reduce the register space in the example
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Hi,

On 21.09.2017 07:26, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi.

......
>> Hm.. according to
>> https://www.altera.com/en_US/pdfs/literature/hb/cyclone-v/cyclone5_handbook.pdf
>> Table 13-18: NAND Controller Module Data Space Address Range
>>
>> Module Instance Start Address End Address
>> NAND_DATA 0xFF900000 0xFF9FFFFF
>>
>> So <0xff900000 0x100000> seems to be a proper value.
>>
>
> The Alrera's SOCFPGA document describes so.
> It is up to each SoC vendor how to describe the register space.
>
> I am focusing on the Denali IP
> because this IP is used among several SoCs.
>
>
>
> You can see the peripheral region map
> starting at page 1-18 of the document you referred to:
>
> Slave ID Description Base Addr Size
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> L3REGS L3 interconnect GPV 0xFF800000 1 MB
> NANDDATA NAND flash controller data 0xFF900000 64 KB
> QSPIDATA Quad SPI flash data 0xFFA00000 1 MB
>
> (In the doc, the base is described as 0xFFB900000, but this is
> apparently a typo.)
>
>
> The rationale of the "End Address 0xFF9FFFFF" of NAND_DATA
> is the fact that the base address of the next peripheral (QSPIDATA) is
> 0xFFA00000.
>
>
>
>
> One more, if you look at the next page,
>
> Slave ID Description Base Addr Size
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> NANDREGS NAND flash controller registers 0xFFB80000 64 KB
> FPGAMGRDATA FPGA manager configuration data 0xFFB90000 4 KB
>
>
> The size of NAND register space is described as 64KB,
> but the rationale is just the start of the next peripheral is 0xFFB90000.
>
> (0xFFB90000 - 0xFFB80000 = 0x10000 = 64KB)
>
>
>
> Altera apparently reserved address space just for the purpose
> of matching the end address to the base address of the next peripheral.
>
>
> That means, this document specifies address region
> much bigger than the IP actually provides.
>
>
> If you look at page 13-6, there are only two registers
> in NANDDATA space.
>
> Table 13-4: Register Map for Indexed Addressing
> Control 0x0
> Data 0x10
>
>
>
> For NANDREGS, in page 13-106, the following is the last register
> in the NANDREGS space.
>
> lun_status_cmd
> Offset 0x7A0
>
> Obviously, 0x1000 (4KB) is enough for NANDREGS.
>
> To conclude this, this binding document was written
> based on the Altera's SOCFPGA specification.
>
> Altera specifies the region size
> so that end address matches to the base of the next peripheral.
> This is just a matter of SOCFPGA address mapping.
>
> In my opinion, the binding document should not be oriented
> to a particular SoC, which is not true for other SoCs.
ok. Thank you for detailed response.

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