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

Andreas Bießmann andreas at biessmann.org
Fri Aug 19 14:56:14 CEST 2016


On 2016-08-19 14:48, Jagan Teki wrote:
> On 19 August 2016 at 18:16, Andreas Bießmann <andreas at biessmann.org> 
> wrote:

<snip>

>>>> 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.

It would be hard to verify it, if you would have taken that task ... So 
I'll do it, with a lower priority sometime next months.

Andreas

> 
> thanks!


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