Hi Wolfram, > Hello, > > I finally could get the work started with I2C on a MPC8260-based > platform. I applied Jochen's series on top of 2.6.25 and it seems I > could get the i2c-cpm and the rtc-rs5c372 driver working (except that it > doesn't autoload as a module, but I think this is my fault somewhere). > I have not checked all yet, but at least some reasonable things do happen. > > I now wanted to test the latest at24-driver on top of that and stumbled > over the fact, that I can't directly add platform_data to the dts-file. > (As at24 shall be a generic driver, data about the eeprom type needs to > be provided.) If I understood of correctly, I need to create another > child node and put all necessary data in there (what also means one > cannot use the predefined macros for known chips in at24.h). After that > I use of_get_property and collect the data. > > So, at the end, every driver using platform_data has to cope with two > mechanisms to get the desired data? This sounds questionable to me, but > maybe I just got something wrong as this is my first contact with of. > > Kind regards, > > Wolfram
You should probably send this question to the Powerpc list (added to cc) Thanks, Jochen _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
