Re: [PATCH 1/7] [OMAP] gpio: Allow for extended GPIO space

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Cory Maccarrone <darkstar6262@gmail.com> [100720 06:59]:
> This change copies from the s3c24xx the ability for a board to specify
> if it wants 64 or 128 more GPIOs in the board space.  This is needed
> to get the HTC Herald board's extra htcpld gpios to work as actual
> gpios.

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> +config OMAP_GPIO_EXTRA
> +	int
> +	default 128 if OMAP_GPIO_EXTRA128
> +	default 64 if OMAP_GPIO_EXTRA64
> +	default 0
> +
> +config OMAP_GPIO_EXTRA64
> +	bool
> +	help
> +	  Add an extra 64 gpio numbers to the available GPIO pool. This is
> +	  available for boards that need extra gpios for external devices.
> +
> +config OMAP_GPIO_EXTRA128
> +	bool
> +	help
> +	  Add an extra 128 gpio numbers to the available GPIO pool. This is
> +	  available for boards that need extra gpios for external devices.
> +

Let's wait on this and the following patch a a little, I believe there
are already patches in the works to deal with this for the multi-arm
support. So this should get solved eventually in a generic way.

Regards,

Tony