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

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Jul 23 04:08:43 CEST 2015


Hi Minkyu,,

On 21 July 2015 at 22:52, Minkyu Kang <mk7.kang at samsung.com> wrote:
> 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.

OK I'll do that once I have the prerequisites in.

Regards,
Simon


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