How to define an I2C-to-SPI bridge device ?
Anton Vorontsov
cbouatmailru at gmail.com
Fri Sep 3 22:08:58 EST 2010
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 10:36:19AM +0200, André Schwarz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we're about to get new MPC8377 based hardware with various peripherals.
> There are two I2C-to-SPI bridge devices (NXP SC18IS602) and I'm not sure
> how to define a proper dts...
>
> Of course it's an easy thing creating 2 child nodes on the CPU's I2C
> device - but how can I represent the created SPI bus ?
Um.. the same as the other SPI buses? I.e.
i2c-controller { /* SOC I2C controller */
spi-controller { /* The I2C-to-SPI bridge */
spi-device at 0 {
};
spi-device at 1 {
};
};
};
> Is the (possibly) required driver (of_sc18is60x_spi ?) supposed to be an
> I2C slave or an SPI host driver ?
It should be an I2C driver that registers an SPI master (i.e.
calls spi_alloc_master() and spi_register_master()).
Thanks,
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Anton Vorontsov
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