Re: [PATCH] SPI: SSP SPI Controller driver v3

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Mon Jan 07 2013 - 05:33:05 EST


On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 11:21:04AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:05 AM, channing <chao.bi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Frankly I'm currently not sure whether they share same IP.. per your reminds, I tried to find but get
> > limited info about PXA SSP's IP, from the code, looks like they have part of registers the same.
> >
> > As far as I know, spi-pxa2xx.c is specific for SSP controller of PXA2XX/PXA3XX core, right?
>
> As pointed out by Mika it may very well be the same IP anyway. People copy/paste
> share and fork VHDL/Verilog/SystemC code just as much as they do with
> kernel code.

Yes, at least on Intel Lynxpoint it is the same IP with few additional
features. I'm about to send patches to spi-pxa2xx which enable the
Lynxpoint support shortly.
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