linux/drivers/bcma
Linus Torvalds ca2a88f56a MTD pull for 3.8
- Various cleanups especially in NAND tests
  - Add support for NAND flash on BCMA bus
  - DT support for sh_flctl and denali NAND drivers
  - Kill obsolete/superceded drivers (fortunet, nomadik_nand)
  - Fix JFFS2 locking bug in ENOMEM failure path
  - New SPI flash chips, as usual
  - Support writing in 'reliable mode' for DiskOnChip G4
  - Debugfs support in nandsim
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Merge tag 'for-linus-20121219' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd

Pull MTD updates from David Woodhouse:
 - Various cleanups especially in NAND tests
 - Add support for NAND flash on BCMA bus
 - DT support for sh_flctl and denali NAND drivers
 - Kill obsolete/superceded drivers (fortunet, nomadik_nand)
 - Fix JFFS2 locking bug in ENOMEM failure path
 - New SPI flash chips, as usual
 - Support writing in 'reliable mode' for DiskOnChip G4
 - Debugfs support in nandsim

* tag 'for-linus-20121219' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (96 commits)
  mtd: nand: typo in nand_id_has_period() comments
  mtd: nand/gpio: use io{read,write}*_rep accessors
  mtd: block2mtd: throttle writes by calling balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited.
  mtd: nand: gpmi: reset BCH earlier, too, to avoid NAND startup problems
  mtd: nand/docg4: fix and improve read of factory bbt
  mtd: nand/docg4: reserve bb marker area in ecclayout
  mtd: nand/docg4: add support for writing in reliable mode
  mtd: mxc_nand: reorder part_probes to let cmdline override other sources
  mtd: mxc_nand: fix unbalanced clk_disable() in error path
  mtd: nandsim: Introduce debugfs infrastructure
  mtd: physmap_of: error checking to prevent a NULL pointer dereference
  mtg: docg3: potential divide by zero in doc_write_oob()
  mtd: bcm47xxnflash: writing support
  mtd: tests/read: initialize buffer for whole next page
  mtd: at91: atmel_nand: return bit flips for the PMECC read_page()
  mtd: fix recovery after failed write-buffer operation in cfi_cmdset_0002.c
  mtd: nand: onfi need to be probed in 8 bits mode
  mtd: nand: add NAND_BUSWIDTH_AUTO to autodetect bus width
  mtd: nand: print flash size during detection
  mted: nand_wait_ready timeout fix
  ...
2012-12-19 12:47:41 -08:00
..
bcma_private.h Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2012-12-14 14:27:45 -08:00
core.c
driver_chipcommon.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2012-12-14 14:27:45 -08:00
driver_chipcommon_nflash.c bcma: mark nflash if it is the boot flash 2012-10-19 15:52:37 -04:00
driver_chipcommon_pmu.c MTD pull for 3.8 2012-12-19 12:47:41 -08:00
driver_chipcommon_sflash.c bcma: add some more flash chips for serial flash 2012-10-19 15:52:39 -04:00
driver_gmac_cmn.c
driver_gpio.c bcma: add GPIO driver 2012-11-21 21:55:52 +01:00
driver_mips.c bcma: mips: fix clearing device IRQ 2012-12-10 15:49:53 -05:00
driver_pci.c
driver_pci_host.c bcma: handle return value of pci_assign_resource 2012-11-30 13:38:13 -05:00
host_pci.c bcma: suspend/resume callbacks should be conditionally compiled on CONFIG_PM_SLEEP 2012-10-29 15:19:31 -04:00
host_soc.c
Kconfig bcma: add GPIO driver 2012-11-21 21:55:52 +01:00
main.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2012-12-14 14:27:45 -08:00
Makefile bcma: add GPIO driver 2012-11-21 21:55:52 +01:00
README
scan.c
scan.h
sprom.c bcma: use fallback sprom if sprom on card was not valid 2012-10-19 15:52:53 -04:00
TODO

Broadcom introduced new bus as replacement for older SSB. It is based on AMBA,
however from programming point of view there is nothing AMBA specific we use.

Standard AMBA drivers are platform specific, have hardcoded addresses and use
AMBA standard fields like CID and PID.

In case of Broadcom's cards every device consists of:
1) Broadcom specific AMBA device. It is put on AMBA bus, but can not be treated
   as standard AMBA device. Reading it's CID or PID can cause machine lockup.
2) AMBA standard devices called ports or wrappers. They have CIDs (AMBA_CID)
   and PIDs (0x103BB369), but we do not use that info for anything. One of that
   devices is used for managing Broadcom specific core.

Addresses of AMBA devices are not hardcoded in driver and have to be read from
EPROM.

In this situation we decided to introduce separated bus. It can contain up to
16 devices identified by Broadcom specific fields: manufacturer, id, revision
and class.