linux-kernel - Re: MXS persistent bits driver

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Message-ID: <20130711163708.GW11243@lukather>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:37:08 +0200
From:	"maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com" <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@...i.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"fabio.estevam@...escale.com" <fabio.estevam@...escale.com>,
	Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>, "cb@...c.de" <cb@...c.de>
Subject: Re: MXS persistent bits driver

Hi Hector,

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:56:42AM +0200, Hector Palacios wrote:
> On 07/11/2013 10:24 AM, maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com wrote:
> >>I haven't seen this is supported upstream. Is anybody working on that?
> >>Where would such a driver fit?
> >
> >Christoph Baumann recently started porting the Freescale's driver to
> >newer release.
> >
> >http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-July/181569.html
> >
> >This needs quite a lot of work, but it's ongoing.
> >
> >Also, about where to put such a driver, I started a discussion about
> >this last week. Mostly, that would be part of MTD, from what is out of
> >the discussion so far.
> >
> >http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-July/182002.html
> 
> I was talking about RTC persistent bits, not OTP bits, but I they
> also fit in your EEPROM like model. I like it!

Oops, sorry, I read your mail too quickly.

But it's true that it would fit quite well in the EEPROM stuff we're
discussing.

Feel free to participate, and I'll let you know if something come out of
it.

Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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