<div dir="ltr">I expect Nuvoton to be sending upstream support for their BMC SoCs later this year. LPC is slowly being replaced by eSPI so, even though I expect a few more companies to introduce BMC SoCs in the next few years, I don't expect a huge increase in the number of LPC slave drivers.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 1:07 AM, Arnd Bergmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arnd@arndb.de" target="_blank">arnd@arndb.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 4:16 AM, Joel Stanley <<a href="mailto:joel@jms.id.au">joel@jms.id.au</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 5:16 AM, Rob Lippert <<a href="mailto:rlippert@google.com">rlippert@google.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Joel Stanley <<a href="mailto:joel@jms.id.au">joel@jms.id.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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</span><span class="">> Yeah, <a href="http://get_maintainers.pl" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">get_maintainers.pl</a> only suggested lkml. cc lkml I think.<br>
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> I'm not sure if we want to put these drivers in misc, or if we want to<br>
> use something like drivers/soc/aspeed.<br>
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> Arnd, Greg, do you have any suggestions here?<br>
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</span>I think the main question is whether there are going to be other drivers<br>
like this one. Are there any other BMCs that still survive on the market<br>
with an LPC slave port? The only other ones I have seen were the<br>
old Broadcom one (apparently discontinued when Broadcom acquired<br>
the Emulex BMC line) and those Emulex BMCs (now part of ASpeed,<br>
presumably merged with the other product line) and some obscure<br>
Nuvoton product I could not find out much about.<br>
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If we do expect more drivers like this, I'd put it into a new drivers/lpc<br>
directory (which we might use for both slave and master drivers,<br>
at least one master driver is pending merge), otherwise drivers/bus/<br>
or drivers/soc/ would be better.<br>
<br>
Between the last two, I'm not sure, since this still doesn't fit perfectly<br>
in one or the other, but both would work.<br>
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Arnd<br>
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