[coreboot] v3 smbus device structure
Marc Jones
marc.jones at amd.com
Fri Feb 22 22:02:51 CET 2008
We need to discuss v3 smbus operations. Someone has done a lot of work
to make smbus_ops.c and smbus.h. The code treats smbus as a bus, like
the pci bus, with a device structure and all.
This approach seems nice and maybe the right way to do it, but it is
somewhat overkill. I think that the complexity is one reason why the
structure is in place in v2 but never used. Instead, simpler
chipset/mainboard specific functions are used. The other reason is that
the smbus is accessed in ROMCC/CAR code and not in the main coreboot bus
enumeration code. My observation is that the SPD is the only device on
smbus used by most mainboards in coreboot.
So, what do we want to do for v3? If we go with the bus/device structure
every mainboard in v2 will need to have the smbus functions ported.
Also, someone will have to figure out how to describe the smbus devices
in the dts and the entire thing might need to use a simpler bus/device
structure. Or, we can do as was done in v2 and leave it to the
chipset/mainboard code.
Thoughts? Volunteers?
Marc
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