How to support SDIO wifi/bt in DT
From: Alexandre Belloni <hidden>
Date: 2014-01-17 09:39:10
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:00:47PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote :
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:15:17AM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:quoted
We've dealt with it with local code in our tree for Chrome OS, and I suspect everyone else has too. It's definitely time to solve generically.As there's no code for any Cubox-i or Hummingboard (they're both purely DT), what this means is that the answer to Wifi/BT support in mainline is that this is "impossible at the moment"... I guess this is becoming a higher priority issue which really needs to be solved somehow. :)I'm looking at it right now actually, might as well sort it out while people are paying attention. Patches a little later today unless I get distrac^Winterrupted. :)
Maybe it is not completely related but I think it needs to be thought about while you are it: The TI wilink chips (TiWi, wl12xx, wl18xx) have wifi on SDIO and BT on UART but they share the same clock. So, the next question would be what if I just want to enable one or the other (and take that decision at runtime) ? Where do I put the pinctrl/clocks/regulators in the DT ? I guess it can become an issue to enable both WiFi and BT at the same time if both SDIO and UART are trying to handle the same pinctrl and regulators. -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/attachments/20140117/4f42f4b4/attachment.sig>