Hello Simon, On 02/18/2015 03:26 AM, Simon Glass wrote: > > On 16 February 2015 at 01:19, Javier Martinez Canillas > <javier.martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello Olof, >> >> On 02/02/2015 12:26 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> The mainline ChromeOS Embedded Controller (EC) driver is still missing some >>> features that are present in the downstream ChromiumOS tree. These are: >>> >>> - Low Pin Count (LPC) interface >>> - User-space device interface >>> - Access to vboot context stored on a block device >>> - Access to vboot context stored on EC's nvram >>> - Power Delivery Device >>> - Support for multiple EC in a system >>> >>> This is a fifth version of a series that adds support for the first two of >>> the missing features: the EC LPC and EC character device interfaces that >>> are used by user-space to access the ChromeOS EC. The support patches were >>> taken from the downstream ChromiumOS 3.14 tree with the fixes and cleanups >>> squashed to have a minimal patch-set. >>> >> >> Any comments on this series? The last version was posted a couple of weeks >> ago but the series have been in the list for months. Lee has already acked >> the mfd changes so you can merge all through your chrome-platform tree if >> you want. >> >> It wold be great if this series get in to have the EC user-space interface >> supported and to minimize the delta with the Chromemium OS kernel since it >> still has other features that needs to be upstreamed like multiple EC in a >> system and access to vboot context stored in block device or EC's nvram. > > Are you sure Olof is the right maintainer for this going to mainline? > The downstream ChromiumOS kernel has this stuff in drivers/mfd but Lee was patient enough to explain to me why it does not fit there. So I think the best place is drivers/platform/chrome/ which is maintained by Olof. > I do feel for you trying to get all this in and have seen your many > attempts. It has been in U-Boot for 18 months...I hope you get there > in the end. > Thanks a lot for your empathy. I do hope to get there too since there are still more features to match what is in the downstream tree but needs to be based on this series. > Regards, > Simon > Best regards, Javier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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