On 10/05/16 16:03, Darren Hart wrote:
On 5/10/16 5:39 AM, Tony Makkiel wrote:
Hi,
Where can I find minnowboard board files? According to
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/x86-platform.pdf
they should be at
drivers/platform/x85/minnowboard* .
Well.... that wasn't quite the point of that presentation :-) If you
haven't watched the video that goes with it, I'd recommend doing that.
I found the link from Google. Did not know there was a video file. Do
you have a link for it please?
Ultimately, the Minnowboard v1 patches were not accepted to the mainline
Linux kernel because they were board files, and the proper solution is
to provide the platform information via the firmware. We have been
working on the ACPI specification to enable this feature (see ACPI _DSD
which was added for this purpose), and are still working on a standard
mechanism to provide user-created ACPI DSDT overlays. That work is not
yet complete.
What is the name used by firmware in minnowboard? Probably , I can use
the same name for my driver in ACPI initialization to verify probe works.
There are some workarounds in place, perhaps John H. can comment on the
current state of those.
I am on kernel 4.5 and cant see any similar files. I am writing an
i2c driver using minnowboard as host. But not sure where to register the
device so that the device driver gets probed. I would prefer ACPI. But I
think I would need to modify the firmware to do that (Do I? If I have to
access to firmware might be a problem).
At present, I am using i2c_new_device within the driver module_init.
But am not sure what the proper way to do it is?
I suggest having a look at the example i2c driver in the minnowboard
extras repository.
https://github.com/MinnowBoard/minnow-max-extras/tree/master/modules/i2c
The example also use i2c_new_device. But the problem is, it assumes the
driver know the i2c id (i2c_get_adapter(0)). I want the driver to be
generic, so that if I use it on another platform with a different bus
id, it still gets probed.
This is for the MinnowBoard MAX and Turbot boards, not the MinnowBoard
v1, but conceptually it applies equally.
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