[U-Boot] [PATCH v7] dm: at91: Add driver model support for the spi driver

[Jagan Teki]

On 19 August 2016 at 18:16, Andreas Bießmann <andreas at biessmann.org> wrote:
> Hi Jagan,
>
>
> On 2016-08-19 14:10, Jagan Teki wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> On 19 August 2016 at 17:20, Andreas Bießmann <andreas at biessmann.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Jagan,
>>>
>>> On 2016-08-19 13:35, Jagan Teki wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 8 August 2016 at 06:14,  <Wenyou.Yang at microchip.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Jagan,
>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Jagan Teki [mailto:jagannadh.teki at gmail.com]
>>>>>> Sent: 2016年8月6日 21:00
>>>>>> To: Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang at atmel.com>
>>>>>> Cc: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot at lists.denx.de>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v7] dm: at91: Add driver model support
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> the spi
>>>>>> driver
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 31 July 2016 at 17:05, Jagan Teki <jagannadh.teki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> > On 29 July 2016 at 06:08, Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang at atmel.com> wrote:
>>>>>> >> Add driver model support while retaining the existing legacy code.
>>>>>> >> This allows the driver to support boards that have converted to
>>>>>> >> driver model as well as those that have not.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Need some info - how many boards still pending to use this driver to
>>>>>> use
>>>>>> it in dm?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> For now, only sama5d2_xplained has used this drive in dm, other boards
>>>>> with AT91 SoC has not used dm driver,
>>>>> such as at91sam9g20ek, at91sam9x5ek, at91sam9m10g45ek, sama5d3xek.
>>>>> sama5d4ek, ....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please convert these boards to dm as well, because driver still have
>>>> non-dm code never know when it gets removed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> non-dm code has to live for some time since this is a shared driver for
>>> avr32 and arm architecture of atmel SoC. Unfortunately avr32 still lacks
>>> dm
>>> support in u-boot. I have some prepared patches but AFAIR there was a
>>> problem with early malloc ... after that I had no time to get it done.
>>>
>>> Beside that I also insist on converting the remaining at91 boards to dm.
>>> Since there are some boards I would suggest a time frame until end of
>>> this
>>> year.
>>
>>
>> OK, look like avr32 should be a blocker here since at91 boards can do
>> at-least. What is the plan on avr32, shall I look in to it?
>
>
> I hope I can look for it in next couple of month. So v2016.11 should be
> doable, maybe v2017.01. Do you have some avr32 hardware to verify it?

Don't have.

thanks!
-- 
Jagan.