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mikroBUS bus driver with gbsim

Adding mikroBUS to the Greybus bridged phys might be the right answer, but I'm not sure. Sounds right.

It seems if we make mikroBUS a bus driver, it should have a 'match' function? https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/driver-model/bus.html

Is 'match' not needed in this case? Could their be a 'match' function that ends up calling the 'match' function for the I2C/SPI/UART busses? How would it determine which buses it needs?

Why would the device tree define the transport? So many confusing terms!!!

mikroBUS bus driver with I2C EEPROM holding manifest

The transport is the physical I2C/SPI/UART busses! The goal is to first get mikroBUS add-on boards working on PocketBeagle+TechLab before worrying about any other transports or other board configurations. By keeping the handling of defining the extra platform data in the mikroBUS bus driver, it should be able to have all the extra definitions it needs right there.

The use of gbsim in the earlier phase was just to try to avoid needing to parse manifest data.

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I wonder if it would help if I did a device tree example for instantiating a mikroBUS bus. What do you think? I might add that to the main page as a draft.

Jkridner (talk)

mikroBUS bus driver with gbsim

Is 'match' not needed in this case? Could there be a 'match' function that ends up calling the 'match' function for the I2C/SPI/UART busses? How would it determine which buses it needs?

As per my understanding match function is required?Which eventually calls the match function of the individual I2C/SPI/UART buses, I was thinking that the manifest has different Cports in it , so we can structure it like this: say for a click that uses I2C and GPIO resources :

; I2C protocol on CPort 1
[cport-descriptor 1]
bundle = 1
protocol = 0x03
property = ...

; GPIO protocol on CPort 2
[cport-descriptor 2]
bundle = 2
protocol = 0x02
property = ...

The property field under each Cport specifies the Extra Platform Data, is this feasible? In this case we can get the required information from the manifest itself.

Why would the device tree define the transport? So many confusing terms!!!

This was a misunderstanding, I was thinking of the bus driver's relation with greybus, The bus driver has no direct relation with greybus right? It is just an independent bus driver, mainly for handling of defining the extra platform data while instantiating the click devices(works similar to Cape Bus difference being the data will be fetched from manifest blob, reusing the greybus manifest parsing logic), in the later phase this bus can be added to greybus Phy.

I wonder if it would help if I did a device tree example for instantiating a mikroBUS bus. What do you think? I might add that to the main page as a draft.

This would be really helpful

Vaishnav98 (talk)