From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756132AbaKTOcD (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:32:03 -0500 Received: from mail-la0-f43.google.com ([209.85.215.43]:53945 "EHLO mail-la0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751257AbaKTOcA convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:32:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:33:05 +0400 From: Antony Pavlov To: Mason Cc: Andreas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= , LKML , Device Tree , Linux ARM Subject: Re: Looking for good references for ARM driver development Message-Id: <20141120183305.53af4ec99d746403b339aaf1@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <546CBFAC.9040906@free.fr> References: <546C920A.7060800@free.fr> <546CB0EB.9080005@suse.de> <546CBFAC.9040906@free.fr> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.0beta7 (GTK+ 2.24.22; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:05:00 +0100 Mason wrote: > Hello Andreas, > > On 19/11/2014 16:02, Andreas Färber wrote: > > > Am 19.11.2014 um 13:50 schrieb Mason: > > ... > > Since this appears to be about an ARM SoC according to your To list, > > in general, you create a device tree binding, that binding is > > registered within your platform/... driver code and referenced in the > > device tree for SoC or board, and then your driver will automatically > > be probed. > > I know nothing about DT (aside from the Wikipedia entry). > I'll take a closer look at Documentation/devicetree. > Will that explain what platform/... is? > > I see a drivers/platform folder, but nothing ARM-specific there? There are very good presentations from Free Electrons: * http://free-electrons.com/pub/conferences/2013/elce/petazzoni-device-tree-dummies/petazzoni-device-tree-dummies.pdf ** see also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_NyYEBxfn8 * https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/arm_in_the_linux_kernel/attachments/slides/273/export/events/attachments/arm_in_the_linux_kernel/slides/273/arm_support_kernel.pdf --  Best regards,   Antony Pavlov