Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 4 authors, 2011-03-31

Re: How to define an I2C-to-SPI bridge device ?

From: Andre Schwarz <hidden>
Date: 2010-09-06 11:40:36
Also in: linux-devicetree

  Anton,
we're about to get new MPC8377 based hardware with various peripherals.
quoted
There are two I2C-to-SPI bridge devices (NXP SC18IS602) and I'm not sure
how to define a proper dts...

Of course it's an easy thing creating 2 child nodes on the CPU's I2C
device - but how can I represent the created SPI bus ?
Um.. the same as the other SPI buses? I.e.

i2c-controller {  /* SOC I2C controller */
	spi-controller {  /* The I2C-to-SPI bridge */
		spi-device@0 {
		};
		spi-device@1 {
		};
	};
};
ok , thanks - looks straight forward.
Is this any more than plain definition, i.e. will this trigger any I2C 
or SPI device registration/linking ?
quoted
Is the (possibly) required driver (of_sc18is60x_spi ?) supposed to be an
I2C slave or an SPI host driver ?
It should be an I2C driver that registers an SPI master (i.e.
calls spi_alloc_master() and spi_register_master()).
hmm - ok. Will have to do it manually then ...

I still wonder how to make the driver arch-generic *and* of-capable.
Do we need a generic I2C slave driver that can be probed along with an 
"of glue driver" or should the of-binding be part of a single device 
driver ?

Sorry for the dumb questions - looks like I expected a little too much 
functionality already existing.


Regards,
André


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