[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/12] LG Optimus Black (P970) codename sniper support series (and driver-model issue)

[Paul Kocialkowski]

Le lundi 20 juillet 2015 à 15:17 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski a écrit :
> This patch series adds support for the LG Optimus Black (P970) codename sniper,
> see the commit that introduces the board and config files for a short
> description of the device.

Any comment on this series? I would really like to get that new device
merged before the merge window ends.

Thanks!

> This should be applied on top of patches that I have submitted to the list but
> were not merged yet, especially:
> * omap-common: Common boot code OMAP3 support and cleanup
> * omap3: CONFIG_REVISION_TAG ifdef check for get_board_rev
> 
> At this point, support as submitted as this point is minimalistic. It is not
> ready for daily use, but introduces the basic elements that are needed to have
> a sane base upon which the rest of the device support will be introduced.
> 
> In particular, the device is currently headless, mainly because the display
> backlight is not enabled. Other important features such as the MUIC are not
> enabled, so USB will only work in U-Boot when the device boots with an USB
> cable already attached. In addition, the external MMC is not supported in U-Boot
> either, as it requires support for a separate PMIC.
> 
> A work in progress commit introduces support for (some of) those bits in a dirty
> and non-mergeable way is available at: 
> http://git.code.paulk.fr/gitweb/?p=u-boot.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/sniper-next
> 
> Having those bits written correctly would require writing some drivers using the
> power framework. In the long run, those would have to use the driver model API,
> which would involve converting the I2C driver to DM as well. This is too much
> overhead for now, but it will be done eventually.
> 
> The main problem I see with doing that work now is that I2C DM seems to heavily
> rely on device-tree. Other parts of the OMAP platform support were converted to
> DM but use platform data defined in each board. That solution looks good to me,
> but doesn't work with I2C. Thus, we could either modify the I2C driver to cope
> with the lack of device-tree or make the use of device-tree a hard requirement
> for driver model, implying that each omap3 boards would have to provide a
> device-tree file as well.
> 
> Both solutions look good to me and I'll let experts decide what to do. Either
> way, I need to know what the right solution to this problem is to be able to
> move forward.
> 
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