[RFC PATCH 0/9] drm/i915/spi: discrete graphics internal spi

Jani Nikula jani.nikula at linux.intel.com
Wed Feb 17 08:35:19 EST 2021


On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler at intel.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler at intel.com> wrote:
>> > Intel discrete graphic devices have internal spi storage, that holds
>> > firmware and oprom images. The spi device is exposed to the user space
>> > via mtd framework to be accessed during manufacturing.
>> > The device is hardware locked after manufacturing and only read access
>> > is provided.
>> >
>> > The i915 plays role of a multi function device (mfd) and spi device is
>> > exposed as its child device. i915_spi platform driver binds to this
>> > device.
>> 
>> What's the plan wrt i915/spi maintainership?
>
> My suggestions is that this will be maintained by myself, as the major
> consumer is the manufacturing line.  It will be a separate section in
> MAINTAINERS file.

Works for me. Do you want to apply the patches directly to drm-intel, or
your own branch and send pull requests to i915 maintainers? Can also
start with the former, and move to the latter as needed.

Joonas, Rodrigo, thoughts?

BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center



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