Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] i2c: ChromeOS EC tunnel driver

From: Stephen Warren
Date: Thu May 01 2014 - 15:05:53 EST


On 04/30/2014 11:44 AM, Doug Anderson wrote:
> On ARM Chromebooks we have a few devices that are accessed by both the
> AP (the main "Application Processor") and the EC (the Embedded
> Controller). These are:
> * The battery (sbs-battery).
> * The power management unit tps65090.
...
> On the Samsung ARM Chromebook 2 the scheme is changed yet again, now:
> * The AP/EC comms are now using SPI for faster speeds.
> * The EC's i2c bus is exposed to the AP through a full i2c tunnel.
>
> The upstream "tegra124-venice2" uses the same scheme as the Samsung
> ARM Chromebook 2, though it has a different set of components on the
> other side of the bus.
>
> This driver supports the scheme used by the Samsung ARM Chromebook 2.
> Future patches to this driver could add support for the battery tunnel
> on the HP Chromebook 11 (and perhaps could even be used to access
> tps65090 on the HP Chromebook 11 instead of using a special driver,
> but I haven't researched that enough).

The binding looks reasonable to me, so that part,
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>

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