Trent Piepho wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Jon Smirl wrote:
[...snip...]
>> I don't see why we want to go through the trouble of having uboot tell
>> us things about a chip that are fixed in stone. Obviously something
>> like the frequency of the external crystal needs to be passed up, but
>> why pass up stuff that can be computed (or recovered by reading a
>> register)?
> 
> One could also say that if U-boot has to have the code and already
> calculated the value, why duplicate the code and the calculation in Linux?

Right, if the "bus-frequency" property for the I2C device is not 
defined, the Linux I2C bus driver should just overtake the pre-defined 
values. That's what I (we?) wanted to implement anyhow.

Wolfgang.

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