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Commit 3a379bbc authored by Boris Brezillon's avatar Boris Brezillon
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i3c: Add core I3C infrastructure

Add core infrastructure to support I3C in Linux and document it.

This infrastructure adds basic I3C support. Advanced features will be
added afterwards.

There are a few design choices that are worth mentioning because they
impact the way I3C device drivers can interact with their devices:

- all functions used to send I3C/I2C frames must be called in
  non-atomic context. Mainly done this way to ease implementation, but
  this is not set in stone, and if anyone needs async support, new
  functions can be added later on.
- the bus element is a separate object, but it's tightly coupled with
  the master object. We thus have a 1:1 relationship between i3c_bus
  and i3c_master_controller objects, and if 2 master controllers are
  connected to the same bus and both exposed to the same Linux instance
  they will appear as two distinct busses, and devices on this bus will
  be exposed twice.
- I2C backward compatibility has been designed to be transparent to I2C
  drivers and t...
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