Celebration in the streets (aka pinmux is merged)

[Andrew Jeffery]

On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 16:11 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 14:54 +0930, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > 
> > Congratulations Andrew and everyone who has helped with design,
> > testing and review.
> > 
> > This is a major component of the Aspeed SoC support that is now
> > complete. It allows us to configure the pads (pins) of the SoC using
> > the device tree and/or from other drivers, instead of looking up
> > registers in the datasheet and sticking values all over the place.
> > 
> > The driver is in the subsystem tree and on it's way to appear in
> > Linux 4.9.
> Congratulations guys ! This was probably the single most challenging
> kernel component of the stack !

I think this taught me a valuable lesson about volunteering for random
work...

> 
> Beers on me next time you're in town :-)

I'll take you up on that! Does Canberra have enough beer? :D

Andrew

> 
> Ben.
> 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Joel
> > 
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> > Date: Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:20 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/8] pinctrl: Add core support for Aspeed SoCs
> > To: Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au>
> > Cc: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>, Alexandre Courbot
> > <gnurou at gmail.com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>, Rob Herring
> > <robh+dt at kernel.org>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > <benh at kernel.crashing.org>, Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org>,
> > "linux-gpio at vger.kernel.org" <linux-gpio at vger.kernel.org>,
> > "linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>,
> > "devicetree at vger.kernel.org" <devicetree at vger.kernel.org>
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The Aspeed SoCs typically provide more than 200 pins for GPIO and
> > > other
> > > functions. The signal enabled on a pin is determined on a priority
> > > basis, where a given pin can provide a number of different signal
> > > types.
> > > 
> > > In addition to the priority levels, the Aspeed pin controllers
> > > describe
> > > the signal active on a pin by compound logical expressions
> > > involving
> > > multiple operators, registers and bits. Some difficulty arises as a
> > > pin's function bit masks for each priority level are frequently not
> > > the
> > > same (i.e. we cannot just flip a bit to change from a high to low
> > > priority signal), or even in the same register(s). Some
> > > configuration
> > > bits affect multiple pins, while in other cases the signals for a
> > > bus
> > > must each be enabled individually.
> > > 
> > > Together, these features give rise to some complexity in the
> > > implementation. A more complete description of the complexities is
> > > provided in the associated header file.
> > > 
> > > The patch doesn't implement pinctrl/pinmux/pinconf for any
> > > particular
> > > Aspeed SoC, rather it adds the framework for defining pinmux
> > > configurations.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au>
> > > Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
> > Patch applied! It's not getting better than this through iteration,
> > it is better
> > to get the system up and develop inside the mainline tree from now
> > on.
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