From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vivek Gautam Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:16:11 +0530 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH RFC 0/2] usb: host: Add a wrapper layer for mutiple host support In-Reply-To: References: <1403619022-15662-1-git-send-email-gautam.vivek@samsung.com> <201406250808.23420.marex@denx.de> <201406251033.51050.marex@denx.de> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Simon, Marek, On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Vivek Gautam wrote: sorry for spamming, the earlier message got sent by mistake. > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Simon Glass wrote: >> Hi Marek, >> >> On 25 June 2014 02:33, Marek Vasut wrote: >>> On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 08:27:39 AM, Simon Glass wrote: >>> [...] >>>> > > > model. Instead, I'd love to see a mean to instantiate each *HCI >>>> > > > controller and have a USB core which would track those instances. The >>>> > > > USB core would then be able to call whatever generic ops on those >>>> > > > instances as needed. Does that make sense please ? >>>> > > >>>> > > True, i understand your point here. I think the second approach i was >>>> > > talking of, goes in this direction. >>>> > > I think i could not put it well in words there. >>>> > > >>>> > > I will prepare an RFC patch for that, and post it as soon as its >>>> > > ready, so that you can have >>>> > > a look. >>>> > >>>> > Ah, this would be so very appreciated! Thank you! >>>> >>>> Should we consider just going straight for driver model? >>> >>> I was thinking about that, but I'm worried it might break USB support on some >>> platforms. Also, the size of U-Boot will grow on many platforms, right? >>> >>> What do you think ? >> >> If you add CONFIG_DM_USB as an option, you can then pull in either >> usb-uclass.c or the old usb code. Since USB is often tied to a board >> then you can move just that board (or group of boards) to dm. >> >> I am keeping a working tree in u-boot-dm.git which does this for >> serial, SPI, SPI flash and GPIO. It seems to work fairly well as a >> technique for keeping both things in the tree in the interim.. Ok, so i am having a look at the u-boot-dm tree, and also going through the documentation for driver-model. The driver-model looks a promising choice at the moment keeping in mind that later we would need to move to it anyways. I will try understanding the things and raise a flag in case something is not clear. >> >> As to the size increase, yes it will increase the size, but not that >> much, and after all, aren't we trying to move the code to dm? -- Best Regards Vivek Gautam Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore India