Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH 0/5] platform drivers for UP Board

From	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH 0/5] platform drivers for UP Board
Date	2016-07-04 18:20 +0200
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+Ismo

On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 17:07 +0100, Dan O'Donovan wrote:
> [Re-sending to a wider audience suggested by Darren Hart]
> 
> The UP Board is a new SBC based on the Intel Atom X5-Z8350 "Cherry 
> Trail" SoC and features a 40-pin I/O pin header and form-factor 
> inspired by the Raspberry Pi 2.
> 
> It utilises a CPLD between the SoC and the external 40-pin header
> to provide buffered voltage level-shifting of the I/O signals, mux
> switching and LED control, and programmable pin mapping between the
> SoC and the external pin header.
> 
> The gpio, pinctrl and led drivers provided in this patch series 
> enable and manage the functions provided by that CPLD.
> 
> I have some open questions about this patch series:
>  * Is it ok to place all of these various UP board drivers together
>    in drivers/platform/x86/, or would it be preferable to place them
>    in the respective sub-system directories (gpio, pinctrl, etc.)?
>    My rationale for keeping them together here is that they are all
>    specific to this UP Board platform and not expected to be
>    generally useful on any other platforms (except variants of UP).
>  * Is it acceptable to include hard-coded references to ACPI device
>    IDs (representing devices integrated on the SoC devices) for the
>    purpose of pin map and gpio references? Or is it required to
>    use only named gpio pins?
> 
> Any feedback/suggestions on the questions above, and the patch series
> in general, would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Further information on the UP board can be obtained from [1] and [2].

Ismo, since you are doing something regarding Intel Galileo open
connected board I think you would be interested in this discussion since
it brings for example pinctrl driver for a _board_ which Galileo and
Edison/Arduino need.

> 
> [1] https://www.up-board.org
> [2] https://up-community.org
> 
> Dan O'Donovan (5):
>   platform: x86: add driver for UP Board I/O CPLD
>   platform: x86: add UP Board I/O pinctrl driver
>   platform: x86: add UP Board I/O gpio driver
>   platform: x86: add UP Board CPLD LED driver
>   platform: x86: add platform driver for UP Board
> 
>  drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig            |  13 +
>  drivers/platform/x86/Makefile           |   5 +
>  drivers/platform/x86/up_board.c         | 167 ++++++++++
>  drivers/platform/x86/up_board_cpld.c    | 560
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/platform/x86/up_board_cpld.h    |  38 +++
>  drivers/platform/x86/up_board_gpio.c    | 254 +++++++++++++++
>  drivers/platform/x86/up_board_gpio.h    |  59 ++++
>  drivers/platform/x86/up_board_leds.c    |  85 +++++
>  drivers/platform/x86/up_board_leds.h    |  50 +++
>  drivers/platform/x86/up_board_pinctrl.c | 285 ++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/platform/x86/up_board_pinctrl.h | 102 ++++++
>  11 files changed, 1618 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/up_board.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/up_board_cpld.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/up_board_cpld.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/up_board_gpio.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/up_board_gpio.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/up_board_leds.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/up_board_leds.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/up_board_pinctrl.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/up_board_pinctrl.h
> 

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy

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[RESEND RFC PATCH 0/5] platform drivers for UP Board Dan O'Donovan <dan@emutex.com> - 2016-07-04 18:10 +0200
  [RESEND RFC PATCH 2/5] platform: x86: add UP Board I/O pinctrl driver Dan O'Donovan <dan@emutex.com> - 2016-07-04 18:10 +0200
  [RESEND RFC PATCH 4/5] platform: x86: add UP Board CPLD LED driver Dan O'Donovan <dan@emutex.com> - 2016-07-04 18:10 +0200
  [RESEND RFC PATCH 3/5] platform: x86: add UP Board I/O gpio driver Dan O'Donovan <dan@emutex.com> - 2016-07-04 18:10 +0200
  [RESEND RFC PATCH 5/5] platform: x86: add platform driver for UP Board Dan O'Donovan <dan@emutex.com> - 2016-07-04 18:10 +0200
    Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH 5/5] platform: x86: add platform driver for  UP Board Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie> - 2016-07-07 04:00 +0200
  [RESEND RFC PATCH 1/5] platform: x86: add driver for UP Board I/O CPLD Dan O'Donovan <dan@emutex.com> - 2016-07-04 18:10 +0200
    Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH 1/5] platform: x86: add driver for UP Board  I/O CPLD Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie> - 2016-07-07 15:50 +0200
    Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH 1/5] platform: x86: add driver for UP Board  I/O CPLD Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie> - 2016-07-08 19:10 +0200
  Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH 0/5] platform drivers for UP Board Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 18:20 +0200

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