On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 10:41 AM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org
<mailto:peter.maydell@linaro.org>> wrote:
On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 at 19:40, Hao Wu <wuhaotsh@google.com
<mailto:wuhaotsh@google.com>> wrote:
>
> We made 3 changes to the at24c_eeprom_init function in
> npcm7xx_boards.c:
>
> 1. We allow the function to take a I2CBus* as parameter. This allows
> us to attach an EEPROM device behind an I2C mux which is not
> possible with the old method.
>
> 2. We make at24c EEPROMs are backed by drives so that we can
> specify the content of the EEPROMs.
>
> 3. Instead of using i2c address as unit number, This patch assigns
> unique unit numbers for each eeproms in each board. This avoids
> conflict in providing multiple eeprom contents with the same address.
> In the old method if we specify two drives with the same unit number,
> the following error will occur: `Device with id 'none85' exists`.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hao Wu <wuhaotsh@google.com <mailto:wuhaotsh@google.com>>
> ---
> hw/arm/npcm7xx_boards.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/arm/npcm7xx_boards.c b/hw/arm/npcm7xx_boards.c
> index a656169f61..cdb52b9922 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/npcm7xx_boards.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/npcm7xx_boards.c
> @@ -107,13 +107,18 @@ static I2CBus *npcm7xx_i2c_get_bus(NPCM7xxState
*soc, uint32_t num)
> return I2C_BUS(qdev_get_child_bus(DEVICE(&soc->smbus[num]),
"i2c-bus"));
> }
>
> -static void at24c_eeprom_init(NPCM7xxState *soc, int bus, uint8_t addr,
> - uint32_t rsize)
> +static void at24c_eeprom_init(I2CBus *i2c_bus, int bus, uint8_t addr,
> + uint32_t rsize, int unit_number)
> {
> - I2CBus *i2c_bus = npcm7xx_i2c_get_bus(soc, bus);
> I2CSlave *i2c_dev = i2c_slave_new("at24c-eeprom", addr);
> DeviceState *dev = DEVICE(i2c_dev);
> + BlockInterfaceType type = IF_NONE;
Why make this a variable? We only use it in one place...
You're right, we can actually inline it.