From: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
To: ChiaWei Wang <chiawei_wang@aspeedtech.com>,
Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] soc: aspeed: Add eSPI driver
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 02:59:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACPK8XfCpUDXi-e1Sh1t+wm_-vXNihRchkmQby7fUXi0mCdMwA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <HK0PR06MB377987E19F57E53CC4F32FF991AF0@HK0PR06MB3779.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com>
On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 02:39, ChiaWei Wang <chiawei_wang@aspeedtech.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 11:32 PM
> > To: ChiaWei Wang <chiawei_wang@aspeedtech.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] soc: aspeed: Add eSPI driver
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 01:59:38PM +0800, Chia-Wei, Wang wrote:
> > > The Aspeed eSPI controller is slave device to communicate with the
> > > master through the Enhanced Serial Peripheral Interface (eSPI).
> > > All of the four eSPI channels, namely peripheral, virtual wire,
> > > out-of-band, and flash are supported.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Chia-Wei, Wang <chiawei_wang@aspeedtech.com>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/soc/aspeed/Kconfig | 49 ++
> > > drivers/soc/aspeed/Makefile | 5 +
> > > drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-espi-ctrl.c | 197 ++++++
> > > drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-espi-flash.c | 490 ++++++++++++++
> > > drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-espi-oob.c | 706
> > ++++++++++++++++++++
> > > drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-espi-peripheral.c | 613 +++++++++++++++++
> > > drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-espi-vw.c | 211 ++++++
> > > include/uapi/linux/aspeed-espi.h | 160 +++++
> > > 8 files changed, 2431 insertions(+)
> > > create mode 100644 drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-espi-ctrl.c
> > > create mode 100644 drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-espi-flash.c
> > > create mode 100644 drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-espi-oob.c
> > > create mode 100644 drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-espi-peripheral.c
> > > create mode 100644 drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-espi-vw.c
> >
> > drivers/spi/ is the correct location for a SPI controller.
> >
> > > create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/aspeed-espi.h
> >
> > This userspace interface is not going to be accepted upstream.
> >
> > I'd suggest you look at similar SPI flash capable SPI controller drivers upstream
> > and model your driver after them. This looks like it needs major reworking.
> >
> eSPI resues the timing and electrical specification of SPI but runs completely different protocol.
> Only the flash channel is related to SPI and the other 3 channels are for EC/BMC/SIO.
> Therefore, an eSPI driver might not fit into the SPI model.
I agree, the naming is confusing but eSPI doesn't belong in drivers/spi.
As it is a bus that is common to more than just the Aspeed BMC, we may
want to implement it as a new bus type that has devices hanging off
it, similar to FSI.
Cheers,
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-08 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20210106055939.19386-1-chiawei_wang@aspeedtech.com>
[not found] ` <20210106055939.19386-6-chiawei_wang@aspeedtech.com>
2021-01-06 7:51 ` [PATCH 5/6] soc: aspeed: Add eSPI driver kernel test robot
2021-01-06 15:32 ` Rob Herring
2021-01-07 2:35 ` ChiaWei Wang
2021-01-08 2:59 ` Joel Stanley [this message]
2021-01-08 3:09 ` Ryan Chen
[not found] ` <20210106055939.19386-5-chiawei_wang@aspeedtech.com>
2021-01-06 10:59 ` [PATCH 4/6] irqchip/aspeed: Add Aspeed eSPI interrupt controller Marc Zyngier
2021-01-07 2:59 ` ChiaWei Wang
2021-01-07 10:17 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-01-08 2:33 ` ChiaWei Wang
[not found] ` <20210106055939.19386-2-chiawei_wang@aspeedtech.com>
2021-01-06 15:07 ` [PATCH 1/6] dt-bindings: aspeed: Add eSPI controller Rob Herring
2021-01-07 2:31 ` ChiaWei Wang
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