[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] Support for XPedite5370 and misc GPIO

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Peter Tyser,

In message <1224800639-31350-1-git-send-email-ptyser at xes-inc.com> you wrote:
>
> This patch series adds support for the XPedite5370 SBC.
> Its an MPC8572-based VPX card with a PMC/XMC site.  The
> XPedite5370 includes a significant number of I2C GPIO devices (5)
> which are used for board configuration.  I added support for
> 2 new I2C gpio devices in a new drivers/gpio directory.  I'm
> not sure if this is the preferred location/method, so let me know

I think it would be better to add these to drivers/i2c instead.

> if others have have different preferences.  It'd be nice to have a
> more generic GPIO framework (like Linux's) at some point, but

Agreed, but U-Boot is a bootloader, and small is beatiful :-)

And this is not just a few GPIO pins, but I2C devices, right?


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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