Re: [RFC 2/5] i3c: Add core I3C infrastructure

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Tue Aug 01 2017 - 13:27:11 EST



> I'm surprised they didn't allow for slave clock stretching when
> communicating with a legacy i2c device, it will prohibit use of a rather
> large class of devices. :(

Yes, but I3C is push/pull IIRC.

> As for interrupts you are always free to wire up an out-of-band
> interrupt like before. :)

Yes, my wording was a bit too strong. It is possible, sure. Yet, I
understood that one of the features of I3C is to have in-band interrupt
support. We will see if the demand for backward compatibility or "saving
pins" is higher.

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