[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 6/7] tegra: Select I2C ordering for Seaboard

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Feb 4 01:19:48 CET 2012


Hi Stephen,

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com> wrote:
> On 02/03/2012 04:24 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com> wrote:
>>> On 01/12/2012 12:00 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>>> Select the port ordering for I2C on Seaboard.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>>>> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>>
>>> This isn't the patch that I ack'd.
>>
>> Sorry, I added the disable.
>>
>>>
>>>> diff --git a/board/nvidia/dts/tegra2-seaboard.dts b/board/nvidia/dts/tegra2-seaboard.dts
>>>
>>> Unrelated to this patch, but shouldn't that be tegra-seaboard.dts not
>>> tegra2-seaboard.dts to match the naming in the kernel?
>>>
>>>> @@ -44,4 +49,9 @@
>>>>       usb at c5004000 {
>>>>               status = "disabled";
>>>>       };
>>>> +
>>>> +     i2c at 7000c400 {
>>>> +             status = "disabled";
>>>> +     };
>>>> +
>>>>  };
>>>
>>> That chunk wasn't in the original patch, and doesn't match the kernel's
>>> .dts file (and I believe that I2C controller really is in use, so
>>> shouldn't be disabled).
>>
>> It cannot be used - remember the discussion about pinmux? We elected
>> to disable I2C1 at present since you didn't like my nvidia,pinmux
>> binding for selecting which value to pass to funcmux. The fix is to
>> pass 1 instead of 0 for that port, but we have no clean way to specify
>> this.
>>
>> Rather disable it than leave it enabled and not working.
>
> Rather than having the .dts file not correctly describe the HW, wouldn't
> it be better to limit U-Boot's to only initializing the 1 I2C controller
> that it knows the valid pinmux setting for?

Well, on Seaboard I2C2 (sorry, not I2C1 as I said in my email) is not
used or connected to anything, so it is a reasonable description of
the hardware. The other 3 pinmux settings are valid.

Regards,
Simon

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