From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 17:57:10 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [RFC/PATCH] SPI API improvements In-Reply-To: <48275D97.7020204@atmel.com> References: <1210346484-1313-1-git-send-email-haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> <200805091722.41084.vapier@gentoo.org> <48275D97.7020204@atmel.com> Message-ID: <200805111757.11319.vapier@gentoo.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Sunday 11 May 2008, H?aavard Skinnemoen wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Friday 09 May 2008, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: > >> This patch hasn't been tested on all the boards involved, so there are > >> probably a few issues. For now, I'd like some comments on the new > >> interface -- if it looks good, we should spend some additional effort > >> to validate that it doesn't introduce any breakage. I could use some > >> help with this. > > > > just a quick glance, but do we care about U-Boot being a SPI slave ? i > > only noticed this as i was working on the Blackfin I2C driver recently > > and realized that the I2C framework has defines for U-Boot to act as a > > slave. not that the Blackfin driver even has any of the slave stuff > > implemented, i just noticed it ;). > > I can't see much reason to add support for U-Boot acting as a SPI slave, > and these patches certainly doesn't attempt to make that happen. If > you're thinking of the new "struct spi_slave", that's a reference to the > SPI slave we're talking to, i.e. whatever sits at the other end of the > SPI bus. > > If someone else wants support for slave-mode SPI, maybe we should add > it, but that should be an entirely separate set of patches. sure sure ... i agree with you completely. just floating the idea in case anyone else actually cared about it. i certainly dont :). -mike -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20080511/05c9e3d4/attachment.pgp