Re: [PATCH 0/7] soc: aspeed: Add AST2600 eSPI controller support

Mark Brown
2026-03-14T01:02:56Z

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On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 10:36:02PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2026, at 17:24, Conor Dooley wrote:

> > FSL's appears to be there.

> I think this is just a similarly named device: Freescale/NXP's eSPI
> device driver is unrelated to the Intel eSPI spec but rather implements
> a normal SPI driver the same way that eDMA and eSDHC are Freescale's
> implementation of dmaengine and SDHCI drivers.

Yeah, SPI with a random letter or string in front of it is usually just
someone made a new controller for some reason (often a new feature, like
all the QuadSPI devices) and wants to differentiate it from their old
ones or connect it to other branding.

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