Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] pinctrl: upboard: Add UP2 pinctrl and gpio driver

From: Dan O'Donovan
Date: Wed Oct 31 2018 - 17:40:21 EST



On 10/31/2018 09:30 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 9:45 PM Dan O'Donovan <dan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The UP2 board features a Raspberry Pi compatible pin header (HAT) and a
>> board-specific expansion connector (EXHAT). Both expose assorted
>> functions from either the SoC (such as GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART...) or other
>> on-board devices (ADC, FPGA IP blocks...).
>>
>> These lines are routed through an on-board FPGA. The platform controller
>> in its stock firmware provides register fields to change:
>>
>> - Line enable (FPGA pins enabled / high impedance)
>> - Line direction (SoC driven / FPGA driven)
>>
>> To enable using SoC GPIOs on the pin header, this arrangement requires
>> both configuring the platform controller, and updating the SoC pad
>> registers in sync.
>>
>> Add a frontend pinctrl/GPIO driver that registers a new set of GPIO
>> lines for the header pins. When these are requested, the driver
>> propagates this request to the backend SoC pinctrl/GPIO driver by
>> grabbing a GPIO descriptor for the matching SoC GPIO line. The needed
>> mapping for this is retrieved via ACPI properties.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan O'Donovan <dan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> It appears you missed my review comments so please read them
> and reply or respin the patch accordingly.
Hi Linus. Unfortunately I did miss your comments completely. Somehow, they weren't in my Inbox, but I found them in the online archives now. Thanks for letting me know.
I'll reply to those soon.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij