[PATCH v2 00/11] Add Apple M1 support to PASemi i2c driver

[Olof Johansson]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 9:36 AM Sven Peter <sven at svenpeter.dev> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-i2c/20210926095847.38261-1-sven@svenpeter.dev/
>
> Changes for v2:
>  - Added reviewed-by/acks
>  - Switched from ioport_map to pci_iomap as suggested by Arnd Bergmann
>  - Renamed i2c-pasemi-apple.c to i2c-pasemi-platform.c as suggested by
>    Wolfram Sang
>  - Replaced the ioport number in the adapter name with dev_name to be
>    able to identify separate busses in e.g. i2cdetect.
>
> I still don't have access to any old PASemi hardware but the changes from
> v1 are pretty small and I expect them to still work. Would still be nice
> if someone with access to such hardware could give this a quick test.
>
>
> And for those who didn't see v1 the (almost) unchanged original cover letter:
>
> This series adds support for the I2C controller found on Apple Silicon Macs
> which has quite a bit of history:
>
> Apple bought P.A. Semi in 2008 and it looks like a part of its legacy continues
> to live on in the M1. This controller has actually been used since at least the
> iPhone 4S and hasn't changed much since then.
> Essentially, there are only a few differences that matter:
>
>         - The controller no longer is a PCI device
>         - Starting at some iPhone an additional bit in one register
>           must be set in order to start transmissions.
>         - The reference clock and hence the clock dividers are different
>
> In order to add support for a platform device I first replaced PCI-specific
> bits and split out the PCI driver to its own file. Then I added support
> to make the clock divider configurable and converted the driver to use
> managed device resources to make it a bit simpler.
>
> The Apple and PASemi driver will never be compiled in the same kernel
> since the Apple one will run on arm64 while the original PASemi driver
> will only be useful on powerpc.
> I've thus followed the octeon (mips)/thunderx(arm64) approach to do the
> split: I created a -core.c file which contains the shared logic and just
> compile that one for both the PASemi and the new Apple driver.

Series:

Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>


-Olof