[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/55] dm: exynos: Driver model improvements leading to spring support

Minkyu Kang mk7.kang at samsung.com
Wed Jul 22 06:52:49 CEST 2015


On 20/07/15 23:19, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Minkyu,
> 
> On 2 July 2015 at 18:15, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> This series adds a number of fixes and improvements to driver model as
>> well as two new uclasses (video bridges and I2c muxes).
>>
>> The series is aimed at adding support for spring (HP 11 Chromebook). Since
>> it is very similar to other ARM Chromebooks, some effory is made to use
>> common code rather than duplicating functionality. In fact spring uses
>> the same code as several other boards, just with a different device tree
>> and a few configuration changes.
>>
>> Audio works correctly on pit, pi, spring and snow with this series. A bug
>> in the I2C driver broken this recently.
>>
>> The exynos implementation still has a few rough areas - e.g. some hard-coded
>> GPIOs and the old-style SPL. Also it does not yet support CPU frequency
>> scaling and power management.
>>
>> Spring has some oddities and they are hard to handle with U-Boot's old
>> way of doing drivers. With driver model these can be implemented cleanly
>> and this sort of problem was the original motivation for my interest in
>> driver model.
>>
>> This series is available at u-boot-dm in branch spring-working. It is
>> based on the previous set of driver model changes in branch clk-working.
> 
> Are you planning to pick this up or should I? It is still dependent on
> some driver model changes which I am working to apply.
> 

If you want, please take patches to dm tree.

Thanks,
Minkyu Kang.



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