[PATCH] ARM: dts: bcm2835-rpi: Avoid conflicts on i2c0

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Thu Nov 16 12:34:53 PST 2017


Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren at i2se.com> writes:

> The GPU firmware of the Raspberry Pi 3 uses i2c0 to communicate to
> the FXL6408 gpio expander. It's a bad idea to use the same interface
> from the ARM side. Since this interface isn't used by the other
> RPi boards, it's save to remove the complete node and avoid this
> conflict.

It's not used by other kernel drivers currently, but should we leave it
in for the pi0/1/2 folks that might have userspace I2C stuff using it?
That's a thing people do, right?  I actually don't know.
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