[RFC linux 1/2] drivers: fsi: Add SBE client device driver

[Joel Stanley]

Hi Eddie,

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Edward James <eajames at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Yes, the OCC driver will depend on the SBE driver for P9. I suppose the OCC
> driver could handle all the SBE register access over FSI itself... but not
> sure if that's a good approach.

Can you expand on why you think this not a good approach?

What abstraction does the SBE driver provide that the OCC driver
benefits from? In other words, how does the code change in the OCC
driver if we don't have a SBE driver in between?

Cheers,

Joel