Re: [PATCH 0/3] spi: spi-cadence-quadspi: Add Rx tuning support for DTR mode

[Tudor Ambarus]

On 2/7/23 06:09, Sai Krishna Potthuri wrote:
> Enable PHY and DQS required for Xilinx Versal Octal SPI to operate in DTR
> protocol.
> Add and update device_id field in spi_mem structure with flash id
> information. Xilinx Versal Octal SPI driver requires the device id
> information to perform the Rx tuning operation. Since there is no common
> Tuning Data Pattern defined across all vendors, controllers like Xilinx
> Versal Octal SPI which requires Rx tuning to find out the optimal sampling
> point for data lines, this device id information will be used as a golden
> data.

Using only 6 bytes as golden pattern seems fragile, but you are aware of
that, as I see that you chose to read the ID 10 times to make the
decision whether the tap is valid or not. Other option (which is not
perfect) is to use SFDP data as golden pattern. If I remember
correctly, JESD216 suggests to use the Read SFDP cmd at 50 MHz, so it
won't help you much. In practice SPI NOR uses the Read SFDP command at
the flash's maximum speed and we haven't seen problems. But better would
be to use some flash OTP data maybe? I remember Pratyush has submitted a
phy calibration series in the past, I haven't had the chance to read his
proposal. Did you? How's your proposal different than his?

Cheers,
ta

> The reason behind choosing this approach instead of reading the ID again
> in the controller driver is to make it generic solution.
> - Other controller drivers which want to use similar tuning process, they
> will make use of this ID instead of reading the ID again in the driver.
> - Also, we can avoid hardcoding the command information and initiating the
> transfer in the controller driver as this should happen from spi-nor.
>
> Sai Krishna Potthuri (3):
>    spi: cadence-quadspi: Add support for PHY module and DQS
>    mtd: spi-nor: Add and update device_id field in spi_mem structure
>    spi: cadence-quadspi: Add Rx tuning support for Xilinx Versal OSPI
>
>   drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c        |   1 +
>   drivers/spi/spi-cadence-quadspi.c | 226 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   include/linux/spi/spi-mem.h       |   4 +
>   3 files changed, 230 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)