[PATCH v9 00/13] Add support for Kontron sl28cpld

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Tue Sep 8 03:42:21 EDT 2020


On Mon, 07 Sep 2020, Michael Walle wrote:

> The Kontron sl28cpld is a board management chip providing gpio, pwm, fan
> monitoring and an interrupt controller. For now this controller is used on
> the Kontron SMARC-sAL28 board. But because of its flexible nature, it
> might also be used on other boards in the future. The individual blocks
> (like gpio, pwm, etc) are kept intentionally small. The MFD core driver
> then instantiates different (or multiple of the same) blocks. It also
> provides the register layout so it might be updated in the future without a
> device tree change; and support other boards with a different layout or
> functionalities.
> 
> See also [1] for more information.
> 
> This is my first take of a MFD driver. I don't know whether the subsystem
> maintainers should only be CCed on the patches which affect the subsystem
> or on all patches for this series. I've chosen the latter so you can get a
> more complete picture.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/0e3e8204ab992d75aa07fc36af7e4ab2@walle.cc/

I'll take all of the non-ARM patches later this week.

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