Re: [PATCH RFC v2 1/8] spi: dt-bindings: spi-peripheral-props: add spi-offloads property

[Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>]

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On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 02:15:35PM +0200, Nuno Sá wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-05-22 at 19:24 +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 09:54:39AM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 7:53 AM Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 11:51:58AM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 4:32 PM Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 05:56:47PM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
> > > > 
> > I think you're right something like that is a stretch to say that that
> > is a feature of the SPI controller - but I still don't believe that
> > modelling it as part of the ADC is correct. I don't fully understand the
> > io-backends and how they work yet, but the features you describe there
> > seem like something that should/could be modelled as one, with its own
> > node and compatible etc. Describing custom RTL stuff ain't always
> > strightforward, but the stuff from Analog is versioned and documented
> > etc so it shouldn't be quite that hard.
> > 
> 
> Putting this in io-backends is likely a stretch but one thing to add is that the
> peripheral is always (I think) kind of the consumer of the resources. Taking the
> trigger (PWM) as an example and even when it is directly connected with the offload
> block, the peripheral still needs to know about it. Think of sampling frequency...
> The period of the trigger signal is strictly connected with the sampling frequency of
> the peripheral for example. So I see 2 things:

Cherry picking this one thing to reply to cos I'm not sure if it was
understood as I intended. When I talked about io-backends I was not
suggesting that we drop the spi-offload idea, I was suggesting that if
something has a dedicated register region & resources that handles both
offloading and some usecase specific data processing that it should be a
device of its own, acting as a provider of both spi-offloads and
io-backends.
I'll look at the rest of the mail soonTM.

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