[PATCH 2/3] aspeed/pinctrl: Fix simultaneous RS-232 / PWM and DVO outputs on AST2500 devices

[Ryan Chen]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Chen" <ryan_chen at aspeedtech.com>
> To: "Andrew Jeffery" <andrew at aj.id.au>, "Timothy Pearson" <tpearson at raptorengineering.com>, "linux-aspeed"
> <linux-aspeed at lists.ozlabs.org>
> Cc: "Morris Mao" <morris_mao at aspeedtech.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 10:06:25 PM
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/3] aspeed/pinctrl: Fix simultaneous RS-232 / PWM 
> and DVO outputs on AST2500 devices

>>On Thu, 2 May 2019, at 08:20, Timothy Pearson wrote:
>> There appears to be a small error in the pinmux table on pages 130 
>>and
>> 131 of the AST2500 datasheet v1.6.  Specifically, the COND2  
>>requirement used to mux the surrounding pins to DVI was inadvertently  
>>replicated to pins V1, W1, V2, and W2 in the table, which do not  
>>incorporate DVI functionality.
>> 
>> As a result of this error, both serial TX lines and the PWM 0/1 
>> outputs were overriding the VPO pinmux settings when VPO was enabled 
>> in the pinmux hogs.
>> 
>> This patch has been verified to function on Blackbird hardware.  Both 
>> serial TXD pins and PWM0/PWM1 were functionally tested with 
>> SCU94[1:0] set to 0x1.
> 
> Hello Tim.
> 
> The AST2500 pwm0/1 configure need following condition, the SCU94[1:0] 
> is 0x1, it should not work.
> Could you help confirm it?
> 
> v2 : pwm 0 : scu88[0] = 1 & scu 94[1:0] = 0 & scu90[5] = 0
> w2 : pwm 1 : scu88[1] = 1 & scu 94[1:0] = 0 & scu90[5] = 0

>>I can confirm that with SCU94[1:0] == 0x1 the PWM0 and PWM1 outputs work correctly -- this was tested on our Blackbird >>hardware.  If you are reading from the datasheet, I suspect there are a few errors in it relating to the relatively rarely used DVO >>mux settings.

Yes it can work after check with designer, if you don't enable the CRT driver, it will work.
But for safety. You need also and with COND2 for pwm driver loaded.