Re: How to define an I2C-to-SPI bridge device ?
From: Andre Schwarz <hidden>
Date: 2010-09-06 11:40:36
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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 ?
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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 MATRIX VISION GmbH, Talstrasse 16, DE-71570 Oppenweiler Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 271090 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Gerhard Thullner, Werner Armingeon, Uwe Furtner, Hans-Joachim Reich