[PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Add num-cs for A20 spi nodes
Emmanuel Vadot
manu at bidouilliste.com
Mon Dec 5 01:39:06 PST 2016
On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 10:28:21 +0100
Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:24:14AM +0100, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> > > > > > If num-cs isn't present nothing prevent to start a transfer
> > > > > > with a non-valid CS pin, resulting in an error. num-cs are
> > > > > > default property especially made for this and a SPI driver
> > > > > > should try to get the property at probe/attach time.
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes, but as far as I know, our driver doesn't. I'm all in for
> > > > > having support for that in our driver, but without it, that
> > > > > patch is kind of useless.
> > > >
> > > > Yes the Linux driver doesn't use it but my upcoming one for FreeBSD
> > > > uses it. So it is not useless for downstream user of DTS.
> > >
> > > Ah, I didn't know this was for FreeBSD. So you started to use our DTs,
> > > or do you have some modifications to it? How does that work?
> >
> > Yes we use the DTS from linux from quite some times now. We're
> > currently synced with 4.7-ish. We either use them directly or
> > modify them according to our needs and driver support.
>
> Do you have a link to those modifications?
>
> Thanks,
> Maxime
>
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> Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> http://free-electrons.com
Sure,
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/boot/fdt/dts/arm/
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Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>
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