[U-Boot] [PATCH] 0/12 Multiadapter/multibus I2C

[Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>]

Hello ksi,

ksi at koi8.net wrote:
> Here is the second attempt for initial portion of multibus/multiadapter
> I2C support.
>   

Can you please send your patches with some better commit messages.
You only send your Signed-off-by, without any explanation. Please
change this.

> This includes a set of common files, all drivers in drivers/i2c and all
> boards affected by these changes (config files, board files, and lib_xx
> files.)
>
> There is an illustrative example of multiadapter multibus I2C config in
> MPC8548CDS.h config file (#if 0'd.) Definitions in that example are
> bogus so please don't expect it to work. It will compile though...
>
> This set also includes big rework for soft_i2c.c that makes it template
> version that allows up to 4 bitbanged adapters. This number can be
>   

Didn;t you try my suggestion? This is a really big define monster now,
which I think, we can avoid, and without to change nearly all lines of
the existing driver.
> reduced/increased; 4 is arbitrary chosen value. I'm not a CPP guru so I
> did not find a way to make a version without a limit. Sure I could add
> additional configuration variable for this limit but it is one more
> variable and resulting soft_i2c.c would be much uglier.
>
> The general rule for multi-adapter controllers (fsl_i2c, mxc_i2c, etc.)
> is that all defines for the first controller do not have any number in
> their names, the second one has "2" and so on. That allows for
> compatibility with existing code. All existing defaults are kept.
>
> I did test-compile all ARM and PPC boards. Unfortunately I have never
> worked with m68k, mips, blackfin so I don't have toolchains for those
> to do test builds.
>
> The only board that failed to compile was SIMPC8313.h that fails to
> link NAND bootstrap with "NAND bootstrap too big" but it has nothing to
> do with new I2C code; it also fails without my patches.
>
> All patches are against today's u-boot-i2c.git.
>   
bye
Heiko

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