Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jul 2020 14:51:46 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] spi: spidev: Add compatible for external SPI ports on Kontron boards |
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 03:48:37PM +0200, Frieder Schrempf wrote: > On 15.07.20 15:10, Mark Brown wrote:
> > I'm not sure platforms like this are a great fit for DT TBH - the > > trouble with DT is that it turns things into ABIs regardless of if it's > > really a finished thing, platform data based systems were a lot more > > flexible here.
> I see your point. Still it seems like the overlays would provide a > sufficient alternative in matters of flexibility. Raspberry Pi uses it for > years, which made me assume that some generic loading API is available. But > it seems like everything is RPi-specific and downstream.
Yes, overlays would be fine if there were a way to use them for connectors like this. The connectors are a real problem, it's not just RPi that has their own loaders/infrastructure downstream. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |