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I'm not sure I follow. Why does the drivers been written to handle chip disablement imply that they are FOSS?
by EE84M3i 6y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Why does the drivers been written to handle chip disablement imply that they are FOSS?
- squarefoot 6y agoI assume that being the PinePhone the first phone whose sections can be disabled by turning off chips, and not telling a driver to do that, the driver should be agnostic wrt the chip status, and not panic especially if the chip is being switched off during work. That would hopefully require the drivers to be rewritten by Pine64 devs to manage an event that as of today would happen only on the PinePhone. I didn't look at the phone architecture yet, so I was referring to chips mapped on the MCU bus lines since the chip enable was mentioned. USB peripherals would be very different, still interesting if they both used USB for ease of support and directly drive the CE lines to be sure the chip is being disabled.