[PATCH] gpio: dt-bindings: add ibm,ppc4xx-gpio binding

Christian Lamparter chunkeey at googlemail.com
Thu May 12 08:07:48 AEST 2016


This patch adds binding information for IBM/AMCC/APM GPIO
Controllers of the PowerPC 4XX series and compatible SoCs.

The "PowerPC 405EP Embedded Processor Data Sheet" has the
following to say about the GPIO controllers: "

 - Controller functions and GPIO registers are programmed
   and accessed via memory-mapped OPB bus master accesses

 - All GPIOs are pin-shared with other functions. DCRs control
   whether a particular pin that has GPIO capabilities acts
   as a GPIO or is used for another purpose.

 - Each GPIO outputs is separately programmable to emulate
   an open-drain driver (i.e. drives to zero, threestated if
   output bit is 1)

"
The ppc4xx_gpio.c driver is part of the platform/sysdev drivers
in arch/powerpc/sysdev.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey at googlemail.com>
---
I looked into arch/powerpc/sysdev/ppc4xx_gpio.c driver and
it doesn't have support for the tri-state logic (open drain
is disabled), but the hardware would support it.
(the #gpio-cells description suffers because of this, since
the high-z option isn't there).

Also there's another problem: There's no DCR pinmux driver?!
So sadly, there's not much information on how to use the DCRs
to control the which pin is muxed to the GPIO or to a SoC
function like the i2c.

This was all the valuable information I could find about the
hardware, so it is included it in the binding text, even
though there's no support for it... Is there anything else
to add?
---
 .../devicetree/bindings/gpio/ibm,ppc4xx-gpio.txt   | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/ibm,ppc4xx-gpio.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/ibm,ppc4xx-gpio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/ibm,ppc4xx-gpio.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..22aabb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/ibm,ppc4xx-gpio.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+* IBM/AMCC/APM GPIO Controller for PowerPC 4XX series and compatible SoCs
+
+All GPIOs are pin-shared with other functions. DCRs control whether a
+particular pin that has GPIO capabilities acts as a GPIO or is used for
+another purpose. GPIO outputs are separately programmable to emulate
+an open-drain driver.
+
+Required properties:
+	- compatible: must be "ibm,ppc4xx-gpio"
+	- reg: address and length of the register set for the device
+	- #gpio-cells: must be set to 2. The first cell is the pin number
+		and the second cell is used to specify the gpio polarity:
+		0 = active high
+		1 = active low
+	- gpio-controller: marks the device node as a gpio controller.
+
+Example:
+
+GPIO0: gpio at ef600b00 {
+	compatible = "ibm,ppc4xx-gpio";
+	reg = <0xef600b00 0x00000048>;
+	#gpio-cells = <2>;
+	gpio-controller;
+};
-- 
2.8.1



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