From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mrst: add SFI platform device parsing code
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:54:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100923105438.GE25663@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100923114845.1938d9dc@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:48:45AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > any of this code could ever be made generic. The spec seems to only
> > cover the data structure, and relationships between devices seem to be
> > left to whatever convention the firmware writer feels like using, or
> > am I missing something?
> Not really no. It's basically little more than a component and IRQ list.
> The GPIO table in 0.8 exposes the GPIO lines a bit more sanely.
> In fact all that SFI provides generically pretty much fits into
> platform_foo() already because there is so little - or into the I²C or
> SPI bus data.
I believe the issue here is the handling of things where the
functionality Linux needs is implemented over multiple chips so we need
a way for the chips to find each other.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-23 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-20 14:01 [PATCH] x86/mrst: add SFI platform device parsing code Alan Cox
2010-09-20 15:04 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-20 14:27 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-20 15:27 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-22 4:03 ` Grant Likely
2010-09-22 15:22 ` David Woodhouse
2010-09-22 15:33 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-22 15:35 ` David Woodhouse
2010-09-22 15:39 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-22 22:04 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-22 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-23 6:07 ` Grant Likely
2010-09-23 9:54 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-23 10:27 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-23 10:27 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-23 10:58 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-23 10:52 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-23 10:13 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-23 14:11 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-23 13:27 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-23 14:46 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-23 15:55 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-23 10:48 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-23 10:54 ` Mark Brown [this message]
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