Re: MXS persistent bits driver

[Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com>]

Dear Maxime,

On 07/11/2013 10:24 AM, maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com wrote:
> Hi Hector,
>
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 09:30:34AM +0200, Hector Palacios wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Linux 2.6.35 had a driver for sysfs access to the MXS persistent
>> bits (drivers/misc/mxs-persistent.c).
>
> Freescale's 2.6.35 I suspect, right?

Yes.

>> I haven't seen this is supported upstream. Is anybody working on that?
>> Where would such a driver fit?
>
> Christoph Baumann recently started porting the Freescale's driver to
> newer release.
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-July/181569.html
>
> This needs quite a lot of work, but it's ongoing.
>
> Also, about where to put such a driver, I started a discussion about
> this last week. Mostly, that would be part of MTD, from what is out of
> the discussion so far.
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-July/182002.html

I was talking about RTC persistent bits, not OTP bits, but I they also fit in your 
EEPROM like model. I like it!

Best regards,
--
Hector Palacios