[U-Boot] [PATCH V3 07/32] misc: add i.MX8 misc driver

[Anatolij Gustschin]

Hi Peng,

On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 02:30:09 +0000
Peng Fan peng.fan at nxp.com wrote:
...
> > Thanks for working on this! I think we should rename this driver to imx-mu and
> > unify it, so that it can be used on i.MX7 and i.MX6SX, if needed.  
> 
> 
> Thanks for reviewing the patcset. Communicating with SCU needs
> dedicated mu designed for SCU, and the scfw requires all the 4 channels
> being used. It will introduce too much complexity to develop a generic mu
> driver support generic mu and scu mu. I would not do that.

OK.

...
> > > +	gd->arch.scu_dev = dev;  
> > 
> > Can we avoid using the dev pointer in global data?  
> 
> I could not find a better solution to make other components could
> easily refer the scu dev. Do you have any suggestions?

No. I think we will have to stick with the scu_dev in global data, now
I see that it is needed just after relocation and before initr_dm(),
so we can't get it just after relocation via dm functions.

> Do you have time to review the remaining patches in the patchset?

I'm working on ENET and I2C/USB/LVDS support for i.MX8QXP MEK based
on this patch series and will try to review remaining patches over
the weekend.

Thanks,
Anatolij