[U-Boot-Users] What the right procedure should be when write a new driver for U-boot?
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Thu Oct 5 18:01:47 CEST 2006
In message <1158829226.8962.35.camel at localhost> you wrote:
>
> When I read U-boot's code, I found the devices initialize function
> devices_init() (called in /u-boot-x.x.x/lib_xxx/board.c), It creates a
> device list, then dev_xxx_init() register the devices such as LCD, USB,
> Serial, Keyboard in the list.
The "devices" list is what can be used for assignement to the
standard I/O "devices" (i. e. the stdin, stdout and stderr data
streams).
> But, some SOC have their own drivers, for example s3c24x0 have their own
> driver of USB, Serial,(/cpu/arm920t/s3c24x0/usb_ohci.c) they don't care
> about the device list, they do it their way.
Some devices like serial or LCD may be used for standard I/O streams,
others (like USB or network may not.
> Is there any 'official' policy on it?
Yes - see above.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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