From: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
To: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>,
Aleksander Jan Bajkowski <olek2@wp.pl>,
John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>,
Sebastien Decourriere <sebtx452@gmail.com>,
Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] dt-bindings: mtd: Add lantiq,nor
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2026 11:06:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261114100608.3432120-3-sw@simonwunderlich.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261114100608.3432120-1-sw@simonwunderlich.de>
The NOR flash on the External Bus Unit (EBU) of Lantiq SoCs is handled
by the lantiq-flash driver and used by danube_easy50712.dts, but its
binding was never documented.
Add a schema for it, including a new optional lantiq,ebu-swap-check
property. Some boot loaders, like the BOSS bootmonitor on the bintec
elmeg RS123 and RS353, enable the EBU's own endianness swapping for the
flash chip select (EBU_BUSCON0 bit 30), and the flash then appears at
its unswapped addresses. Whether that bit can be trusted depends on the
SoC: it only works on VR9 (xRX200) from revision 1.2 and on AR10
(xRX300), and Falcon has no such register. A board property instead of
a list of SoC revisions in the driver was requested in the review of an
earlier attempt at this. The property does not state the bit's value,
so a board keeps working with either boot loader setting.
Link: https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2017-January/071749.html
Link: https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2017-January/071818.html
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
---
.../devicetree/bindings/mtd/lantiq,nor.yaml | 79 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 79 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/lantiq,nor.yaml
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/lantiq,nor.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/lantiq,nor.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e6f2be1245dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/lantiq,nor.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/mtd/lantiq,nor.yaml#
+$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
+
+title: Lantiq SoC NOR flash on the External Bus Unit
+
+maintainers:
+ - Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
+
+description:
+ Parallel CFI NOR flash on chip select 0 of the External Bus Unit (EBU) of
+ Lantiq SoCs. Depending on how the EBU is configured, the address lines of
+ the flash are swapped, so the chip is not accessible as a plain
+ memory-mapped CFI flash.
+
+allOf:
+ - $ref: mtd.yaml#
+
+properties:
+ compatible:
+ const: lantiq,nor
+
+ reg:
+ maxItems: 1
+
+ bank-width:
+ description: Width (in bytes) of the flash bank.
+ $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
+ const: 2
+
+ lantiq,ebu-swap-check:
+ type: boolean
+ description:
+ The EBU's own endianness swapping for chip select 0 (EBU_BUSCON0 bit
+ 30) is usable on this board and may have been enabled by the boot
+ loader. When it is enabled, the flash appears at its unswapped
+ addresses. The bit only works on VR9 (xRX200) from revision 1.2 and on
+ AR10 (xRX300), so this property must only be set on boards with one of
+ these SoCs.
+
+required:
+ - compatible
+ - reg
+ - bank-width
+
+unevaluatedProperties: false
+
+examples:
+ - |
+ bus {
+ #address-cells = <2>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+
+ flash@0 {
+ compatible = "lantiq,nor";
+ reg = <0 0x0 0x2000000>;
+ bank-width = <2>;
+ lantiq,ebu-swap-check;
+
+ partitions {
+ compatible = "fixed-partitions";
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+
+ partition@0 {
+ reg = <0x0 0x40000>;
+ label = "boot";
+ read-only;
+ };
+
+ partition@40000 {
+ reg = <0x40000 0x1fc0000>;
+ label = "firmware";
+ };
+ };
+ };
+ };
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-14 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-14 10:06 [PATCH 0/5] mtd: maps: lantiq-flash: support boot loaders using the EBU endianness swap Simon Wunderlich
2026-11-14 10:06 ` [PATCH 1/5] mtd: maps: lantiq-flash: fix NULL pointer dereference on probe Simon Wunderlich
2026-11-14 10:06 ` Simon Wunderlich [this message]
2026-11-14 10:06 ` [PATCH 3/5] mips: lantiq: xway: sysctrl: export ltq_ebu_membase Simon Wunderlich
2026-11-14 10:06 ` [PATCH 4/5] mtd: maps: lantiq-flash: honour the EBU's own endianness swap Simon Wunderlich
2026-11-14 10:06 ` [PATCH 5/5] mips: lantiq: danube: rename NOR node on EASY50712 reference board Simon Wunderlich
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