dt-bindings: mtd: refactor NAND bindings and add nand-controller-legacy.yaml

The modern NAND controller binding requires NAND chips to be described as
child nodes of the controller, for example:

  nand-controller {
          ...
          nand@0 {
                  /* raw NAND chip properties */
          };
  };

However, many existing device trees place NAND chip properties directly
within the controller node because those controllers support only a single
chip. This layout is still widely used by older platforms and by other DT
consumers such as U-Boot. Migrating all existing users to the new layout
will take time.

Several kernel drivers, such as ams-delta.c, davinci_nand.c and
fsmc_nand.c, still expect the legacy layout where raw NAND properties are
defined in the controller node.

To support both layouts during the transition:

- Extract NAND chip-related properties into separate schemas
  (nand-property.yaml and raw-nand-property.yaml) from
  nand-chip.yaml and raw-nand-chip.yaml.
- Introduce nand-controller-legacy.yaml to allow both the
  legacy and modern layouts.
- Add a select condition in nand-controller.yaml to prevent
  node name pattern matching for fsl,* NAND controllers.

Keep compatibility with existing device trees while allowing gradual
migration to the modern binding structure.

Signed-off-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
This commit is contained in:
Frank Li
2026-03-24 18:16:18 -04:00
committed by Miquel Raynal
parent 25a915fad5
commit 0ba8da2f31
6 changed files with 231 additions and 118 deletions

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@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ maintainers:
allOf:
- $ref: mtd.yaml#
- $ref: nand-property.yaml
description: |
This file covers the generic description of a NAND chip. It implies that the
@@ -22,51 +23,6 @@ properties:
description:
Contains the chip-select IDs.
nand-ecc-engine:
description: |
A phandle on the hardware ECC engine if any. There are
basically three possibilities:
1/ The ECC engine is part of the NAND controller, in this
case the phandle should reference the parent node.
2/ The ECC engine is part of the NAND part (on-die), in this
case the phandle should reference the node itself.
3/ The ECC engine is external, in this case the phandle should
reference the specific ECC engine node.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle
nand-use-soft-ecc-engine:
description: Use a software ECC engine.
type: boolean
nand-no-ecc-engine:
description: Do not use any ECC correction.
type: boolean
nand-ecc-algo:
description:
Desired ECC algorithm.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string
enum: [hamming, bch, rs]
nand-ecc-strength:
description:
Maximum number of bits that can be corrected per ECC step.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
minimum: 1
nand-ecc-step-size:
description:
Number of data bytes covered by a single ECC step.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
minimum: 1
secure-regions:
description:
Regions in the NAND chip which are protected using a secure element
like Trustzone. This property contains the start address and size of
the secure regions present.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint64-matrix
required:
- reg

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@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
%YAML 1.2
---
$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/mtd/nand-controller-legacy.yaml#
$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
title: NAND Controller Common Properties
maintainers:
- Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
- Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
description: >
The NAND controller should be represented with its own DT node, and
all NAND chips attached to this controller should be defined as
children nodes of the NAND controller. This representation should be
enforced even for simple controllers supporting only one chip.
This is only for legacy nand controller, new controller should use
nand-controller.yaml
properties:
"#address-cells":
const: 1
"#size-cells":
enum: [0, 1]
ranges: true
cs-gpios:
description:
Array of chip-select available to the controller. The first
entries are a 1:1 mapping of the available chip-select on the
NAND controller (even if they are not used). As many additional
chip-select as needed may follow and should be phandles of GPIO
lines. 'reg' entries of the NAND chip subnodes become indexes of
this array when this property is present.
minItems: 1
maxItems: 8
partitions:
type: object
required:
- compatible
patternProperties:
"^nand@[a-f0-9]$":
type: object
$ref: raw-nand-chip.yaml#
"^partition@[0-9a-f]+$":
type: object
$ref: /schemas/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml#/$defs/partition-node
deprecated: true
allOf:
- $ref: raw-nand-property.yaml#
- $ref: nand-property.yaml#
# This is a generic file other binding inherit from and extend
additionalProperties: true

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@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ description: |
children nodes of the NAND controller. This representation should be
enforced even for simple controllers supporting only one chip.
select: false
properties:
$nodename:
pattern: "^nand-controller(@.*)?"

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@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
%YAML 1.2
---
$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/mtd/nand-property.yaml#
$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
title: NAND Chip Common Properties
maintainers:
- Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
description: |
This file covers the generic properties of a NAND chip. It implies that the
bus interface should not be taken into account: both raw NAND devices and
SPI-NAND devices are concerned by this description.
properties:
nand-ecc-engine:
description: |
A phandle on the hardware ECC engine if any. There are
basically three possibilities:
1/ The ECC engine is part of the NAND controller, in this
case the phandle should reference the parent node.
2/ The ECC engine is part of the NAND part (on-die), in this
case the phandle should reference the node itself.
3/ The ECC engine is external, in this case the phandle should
reference the specific ECC engine node.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle
nand-use-soft-ecc-engine:
description: Use a software ECC engine.
type: boolean
nand-no-ecc-engine:
description: Do not use any ECC correction.
type: boolean
nand-ecc-algo:
description:
Desired ECC algorithm.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string
enum: [hamming, bch, rs]
nand-ecc-strength:
description:
Maximum number of bits that can be corrected per ECC step.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
minimum: 1
nand-ecc-step-size:
description:
Number of data bytes covered by a single ECC step.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
minimum: 1
secure-regions:
description:
Regions in the NAND chip which are protected using a secure element
like Trustzone. This property contains the start address and size of
the secure regions present.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint64-matrix
# This file can be referenced by more specific devices (like spi-nands)
additionalProperties: true

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@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ maintainers:
allOf:
- $ref: nand-chip.yaml#
- $ref: raw-nand-property.yaml#
description: |
The ECC strength and ECC step size properties define the user
@@ -31,79 +32,6 @@ properties:
description:
Contains the chip-select IDs.
nand-ecc-placement:
description:
Location of the ECC bytes. This location is unknown by default
but can be explicitly set to "oob", if all ECC bytes are
known to be stored in the OOB area, or "interleaved" if ECC
bytes will be interleaved with regular data in the main area.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string
enum: [ oob, interleaved ]
deprecated: true
nand-ecc-mode:
description:
Legacy ECC configuration mixing the ECC engine choice and
configuration.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string
enum: [none, soft, soft_bch, hw, hw_syndrome, on-die]
deprecated: true
nand-bus-width:
description:
Bus width to the NAND chip
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
enum: [8, 16]
default: 8
nand-on-flash-bbt:
description:
With this property, the OS will search the device for a Bad
Block Table (BBT). If not found, it will create one, reserve
a few blocks at the end of the device to store it and update
it as the device ages. Otherwise, the out-of-band area of a
few pages of all the blocks will be scanned at boot time to
find Bad Block Markers (BBM). These markers will help to
build a volatile BBT in RAM.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/flag
nand-ecc-maximize:
description:
Whether or not the ECC strength should be maximized. The
maximum ECC strength is both controller and chip
dependent. The ECC engine has to select the ECC config
providing the best strength and taking the OOB area size
constraint into account. This is particularly useful when
only the in-band area is used by the upper layers, and you
want to make your NAND as reliable as possible.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/flag
nand-is-boot-medium:
description:
Whether or not the NAND chip is a boot medium. Drivers might
use this information to select ECC algorithms supported by
the boot ROM or similar restrictions.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/flag
nand-rb:
description:
Contains the native Ready/Busy IDs.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32-array
rb-gpios:
description:
Contains one or more GPIO descriptor (the numper of descriptor
depends on the number of R/B pins exposed by the flash) for the
Ready/Busy pins. Active state refers to the NAND ready state and
should be set to GPIOD_ACTIVE_HIGH unless the signal is inverted.
wp-gpios:
description:
Contains one GPIO descriptor for the Write Protect pin.
Active state refers to the NAND Write Protect state and should be
set to GPIOD_ACTIVE_LOW unless the signal is inverted.
maxItems: 1
required:
- reg

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
%YAML 1.2
---
$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/mtd/raw-nand-property.yaml#
$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
title: Raw NAND Chip Common Properties
maintainers:
- Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
description: |
The ECC strength and ECC step size properties define the user
desires in terms of correction capability of a controller. Together,
they request the ECC engine to correct {strength} bit errors per
{size} bytes for a particular raw NAND chip.
The interpretation of these parameters is implementation-defined, so
not all implementations must support all possible
combinations. However, implementations are encouraged to further
specify the value(s) they support.
properties:
nand-ecc-placement:
description:
Location of the ECC bytes. This location is unknown by default
but can be explicitly set to "oob", if all ECC bytes are
known to be stored in the OOB area, or "interleaved" if ECC
bytes will be interleaved with regular data in the main area.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string
enum: [ oob, interleaved ]
deprecated: true
nand-ecc-mode:
description:
Legacy ECC configuration mixing the ECC engine choice and
configuration.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string
enum: [none, soft, soft_bch, hw, hw_syndrome, on-die]
deprecated: true
nand-bus-width:
description:
Bus width to the NAND chip
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
enum: [8, 16]
default: 8
nand-on-flash-bbt:
description:
With this property, the OS will search the device for a Bad
Block Table (BBT). If not found, it will create one, reserve
a few blocks at the end of the device to store it and update
it as the device ages. Otherwise, the out-of-band area of a
few pages of all the blocks will be scanned at boot time to
find Bad Block Markers (BBM). These markers will help to
build a volatile BBT in RAM.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/flag
nand-ecc-maximize:
description:
Whether or not the ECC strength should be maximized. The
maximum ECC strength is both controller and chip
dependent. The ECC engine has to select the ECC config
providing the best strength and taking the OOB area size
constraint into account. This is particularly useful when
only the in-band area is used by the upper layers, and you
want to make your NAND as reliable as possible.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/flag
nand-is-boot-medium:
description:
Whether or not the NAND chip is a boot medium. Drivers might
use this information to select ECC algorithms supported by
the boot ROM or similar restrictions.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/flag
nand-rb:
description:
Contains the native Ready/Busy IDs.
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32-array
rb-gpios:
description:
Contains one or more GPIO descriptor (the numper of descriptor
depends on the number of R/B pins exposed by the flash) for the
Ready/Busy pins. Active state refers to the NAND ready state and
should be set to GPIOD_ACTIVE_HIGH unless the signal is inverted.
wp-gpios:
description:
Contains one GPIO descriptor for the Write Protect pin.
Active state refers to the NAND Write Protect state and should be
set to GPIOD_ACTIVE_LOW unless the signal is inverted.
maxItems: 1
# This is a generic file other binding inherit from and extend
additionalProperties: true