How to support SDIO wifi/bt in DT

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Fri Jan 17 11:58:52 EST 2014


On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Rob Herring wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Olof Johansson wrote:
> >
> >> "for SDIO slots" is somewhat misleading; nearly all controllers only
> >> do one slot/device per controller. The designware controller can do
> >> multiple slots, and that adds a bit of driver and binding complexity
> >> for something that seemingly not a single vendor has actually
> >> implemented.
> >
> > The Marvell 8688, just to name one, does both WIFI and BlueTooth over
> > the same SDIO controller using separate functions/slots.
> 
> But that is logical functions within a chip, not multiple discrete
> chips (i.e. slots) with their own reset, regulators, etc.

OK.  If that's the definition of a slot in this context then I agree.


Nicolas



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