[PATCH] drivers/misc: add Aspeed LPC snoop driver

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Sat Jun 10 05:00:16 AEST 2017


On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Rick Altherr <raltherr at google.com> wrote:
> I expect Nuvoton to be sending upstream support for their BMC SoCs later
> this year.

Ah, good to hear!

> 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.

Do you know how eSPI slave drivers work? Are they regular SPI slaves
that implement the eSPI bits in software, or is there hardware level
support for eSPI slaves that makes them look like LPC at the high
level?

        Arnd


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