Re: [RFC 3/3] iio: imu: bme680: Add ACPI support

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk>]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:02:36 +0300
Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Jonathan Cameron
> <jic23@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 25 June 2018 08:40:08 BST, Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com> wrote:  
> >>On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 4:44 PM, Jonathan Cameron
> >><jonathan.cameron@huawei.com> wrote:  
> >>> On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:04:37 +0530
> >>> Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>  
> >>>> Add support to probe the bme680 sensor on the i2c bus using
> >>>> ACPI.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cc: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@gmail.com>  
> >>>
> >>> This looks fine.  Do we know for sure that they use that ACPI
> >>> ID?  For these sorts of devices, it's fairly common to have entirely
> >>> random ids presented.   Also, I'm a little curious to know, what
> >>> ACPI based device has one of these?  
> >>
> >>Hi Jonathan,
> >>
> >>I am not aware of any ACPI device using our chosen ID. We just
> >>picked BME0680 based on previous drivers from Bosch.
> >>
> >>It is useful to enumerate the sensor via ACPI because our
> >>qemu testing setup uses ACPI.  
> >
> > Cool. Any docs on that setup?  Would be useful blog post if easy to do.  
> 
> We have multiple iterations of our setup, depending on the project.
> 
> Generic description that we use at University can be found here:
> 
> https://linux-kernel-labs.github.io/master/labs/vm.html
> 
> Scripts are here:
> 
> https://github.com/linux-kernel-labs/linux/tree/master/tools/labs/qemu
> 
> For IIO we use DLN2 (USB-I2C/SPI) adapter and we pass
> -acpitable file=description.aml to qemu.
> 
Cool. I just got around to getting one of these last week as
it seemed a useful tool to have!

Thanks - will have a play with this when I get some time.

Jonathan
> 
> thanks,
> Daniel.