Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: spi: dw: add cs-override property

[Talel Shenhar <talel@amazon.com>]

On 10/11/2018 01:21 AM, Trent Piepho wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-10-10 at 10:08 +0300, Talel Shenhar wrote:
>> The dw spi controller has an auto-deselect of Chip-Select, in case there is
>> no data inside the Tx FIFO. While working on platforms with Alpine chips,
>> auto-deselect mode causes an issue for some spi devices that can't handle
>> the Chip-Select deselect in the middle of a transaction. It is a normal
>> behavior for a Tx FIFO to be empty in the middle of a transaction, due to
>>
> So that's the problem!  I, like everyone else I suspect, switched to
> using GPIO chip selects with this driver because of this.  I narrowed
> it down to a CS de-assert when the bus switched from TX to RX, which of
> course makes a SPI register read fail on most devices.  The TX FIFO
> would empty at this point, so that would explain it.
>
> Did the designers of this IP ever read a SPI device datasheet???
>
> Got to agree with Mark Brown, why would anyone ever want to NOT have it
> work properly?  The previous behavior is not "alternate correct", it's
> Broken.
This patch allow the Amazon changed hw to work in a correct way.
Unfortunately, the original hw doesn't support auto-deselect disable.
auto-deselect disable is a hw fixup Amazon hw engineers added on top
of the original dw IP.
The fix was to disable the auto-deselect and to allow sw
to manually control the chip-select.
This patch enables the above described Amazon hw fixup and
adds manual control over chip-select.