[PATCH v5 00/11] memory: add Atmel EBI (External Bus Interface) driver

Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com
Wed Jan 14 08:21:52 PST 2015


Hi,

On 11/01/2015 at 13:56:15 +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote :
> Hi Lee,
> 
> On Wed,  3 Dec 2014 21:44:04 +0100
> Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 
> > The EBI (External Bus Interface) is used to access external peripherals
> > (NOR, SRAM, NAND, and other specific devices like ethernet controllers).
> > Each device is assigned a CS line and an address range and can have its
> > own configuration (timings, access mode, bus width, ...).
> > This driver provides a generic DT binding to configure a device according
> > to its requirements.
> > For specific device controllers (like the NAND one) the SMC timings
> > should be configured by the controller driver through the matrix and
> > smc syscon regmaps.
> > 
> > The first 4 patches introduce 2 syscon devices needed to configure the
> > EBI bus, patch 5 and 6 adds support for the EBI bus, and the remaining
> > patches declares the EBI related nodes in sama5d3 dts[i] files.
> 
> Can you take the first 4 patches of this series (adding 2 syscon
> devices and their associated bindings doc) for 3.20 ?
> Alexandre has worked on multi platform support for Atmel SoCs and his
> work depends on these two syscon devices.
> 
> Let me know if you want me to send to send a new series containing only
> those 4 commits.
> 

Actually, because of other series depending on it and because you
already acked them, Nicolas wants to take those 4 patches through the
AT91 tree, unless you have any reason to take them through your tree.

Sorry for the noise.

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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