Q: define i2c nodes in device tree?

["Albrecht Dreß" <albrecht.dress@arcor.de>]

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Hi all,

I have some probably dumb questions regarding the definition of i2c  
slaves in the of device tree file...

My test system is a lite5200b board to which I attached two pca8575 io  
expander chips at i2c addresses 0x20 and 0x21.  Using the stock kernel  
2.6.29, I added the driver from the GPIO section, but I couldn't figure  
out how to add them to the dts file.  I tried e.g.

<snip>
i2c@3d40 {
	[...]
         compatible = "fsl,mpc5200b-i2c","fsl,mpc5200-i2c","fsl-i2c";
         [...]

         gpio@20 {
                 compatible = "pcf857x";
                 device_type = "gpio";
                 reg = <0x20 1>;
	};
};
</snip>

and some other like "gpio-controller" instead of "gpio" but (surprise)  
it doesn't work - dmesg says that the driver is registered, but nothing  
else shows up.  Unfortunately, I couldn't find documentation about the  
naming conventions of the i2c child nodes.

As I actually want to use the chips as parallel io (not separate  
gpio's) and thus would need to write my own driver I wonder if I really  
have to declare it in the device tree?  Would the simple way -just load  
the kernel module as with arm/intel- also work?  Would it be possible  
to use additional resources like an interrupt pin on the '5200 without  
the device tree?

Any information about a proper approach would be really helpful!

Thanks in advance, Albrecht.

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