On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 08:58:14 +0200
"Michael Walle" <mwa...@kernel.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > > The driver is trying to read the "spi-max-frequency" property of the
> > > *controller* driver node. There is no such property. The
> > > "spi-max-frequency" property belongs to the SPI devices on the bus.  
> >
> > Ah, indeed, good catch! Many thanks for sending this!
> >    
> > > Right now, the driver will always fall back to the default value of 1MHz
> > > and thus flash reads are very slow with just about 215kb/s.  
> >
> > That's even slower, right? I guess around 125 KB/s?  
> 
> Yes of course :) 1Mhz/8 at most. I was fooled by the "sf update"
> command which will skip the same sectors and then the overall speed
> will be faster.
> 
> > > In fact, the SPI uclass will already take care of everything and we just
> > > have to clamp the frequency to the values the driver/hardware supports.
> > > Thus, drop the whole max_hz handling.  
> >
> > Looks good to me, I verified this by timing the read, this patch indeed 
> > significantly increases the performance. Also changing the limit in the
> > DT gets reflected in the driver and in the read speed. Also verified
> > that the values read from the SPI flash are the same in all cases.
> >  
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <mwa...@kernel.org>  
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przyw...@arm.com>
> > Tested-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przyw...@arm.com>
> >
> > I will make this part of the first 2024.10 PR.  
> 
> This means just 1/2 or both? Because there was no Rb on the second
> patch.

Just this one for now, as I was preparing the pull request. It's a fix, so
I can send it anytime later, it doesn't have to wait for anything.
I was hoping we can fix that other calculation issue at the same time.

Cheers,
Andre.

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