[PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: A523: fix voltage withstand encoding

[PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: A523: fix voltage withstand encoding

[Andre Przywara]

The Allwinner A523 uses the same GPIO voltage "withstand" programming
(setting the input level voltage thresholds) as the previous SoCs, but
for some odd reason inverts the encoding of 1.8V vs. 3.3V.

Add a new bias voltage type to note this difference, and select it for
the A523. At the same time also use the newer "CTL" version, which in
addition allows to turn off the withstand programming for I/O voltages
other than exact 1.8V or 3.3V (for instance for 2.5V sometimes used for
Ethernet PHYs). The A523 has that enable register, but didn't use it
so far.

This fixes eMMC and reportedly Ethernet operation on some A523 boards.

Fixes: 648be4cd9517 ("pinctrl: sunxi: Add support for the Allwinner A523")
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
---
 drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sun55i-a523-r.c | 2 +-
 drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sun55i-a523.c   | 2 +-
 drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c         | 6 ++++++
 drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.h         | 2 ++
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sun55i-a523-r.c b/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sun55i-a523-r.c
index dfdcfa740ecc9..cffc1e53eef14 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sun55i-a523-r.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sun55i-a523-r.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ static const u8 a523_r_irq_bank_muxes[SUNXI_PINCTRL_MAX_BANKS] =
 static struct sunxi_pinctrl_desc a523_r_pinctrl_data = {
 	.irq_banks = ARRAY_SIZE(a523_r_irq_bank_map),
 	.irq_bank_map = a523_r_irq_bank_map,
-	.io_bias_cfg_variant = BIAS_VOLTAGE_PIO_POW_MODE_SEL,
+	.io_bias_cfg_variant = BIAS_VOLTAGE_PIO_POW_MODE_CTL_INV,
 	.pin_base = PL_BASE,
 };
 
diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sun55i-a523.c b/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sun55i-a523.c
index 801f62abc93df..001bd42afa3ef 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sun55i-a523.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sun55i-a523.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ static const u8 a523_irq_bank_muxes[SUNXI_PINCTRL_MAX_BANKS] =
 static struct sunxi_pinctrl_desc a523_pinctrl_data = {
 	.irq_banks = ARRAY_SIZE(a523_irq_bank_map),
 	.irq_bank_map = a523_irq_bank_map,
-	.io_bias_cfg_variant = BIAS_VOLTAGE_PIO_POW_MODE_SEL,
+	.io_bias_cfg_variant = BIAS_VOLTAGE_PIO_POW_MODE_CTL_INV,
 };
 
 static int a523_pinctrl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c b/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c
index cabcb8b6f38e5..634d9f1f23947 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c
@@ -718,6 +718,7 @@ static int sunxi_pinctrl_set_io_bias_cfg(struct sunxi_pinctrl *pctl,
 {
 	unsigned short bank;
 	unsigned long flags;
+	bool inverted = false;
 	u32 val, reg;
 	int uV;
 
@@ -757,6 +758,9 @@ static int sunxi_pinctrl_set_io_bias_cfg(struct sunxi_pinctrl *pctl,
 		writel(reg | val, pctl->membase +
 		       sunxi_grp_config_reg(pctl, pin));
 		return 0;
+	case BIAS_VOLTAGE_PIO_POW_MODE_CTL_INV:
+		inverted = true;
+		fallthrough;
 	case BIAS_VOLTAGE_PIO_POW_MODE_CTL:
 		val = uV > 1800000 && uV <= 2500000 ? BIT(bank) : 0;
 
@@ -771,6 +775,8 @@ static int sunxi_pinctrl_set_io_bias_cfg(struct sunxi_pinctrl *pctl,
 		fallthrough;
 	case BIAS_VOLTAGE_PIO_POW_MODE_SEL:
 		val = uV <= 1800000 ? 1 : 0;
+		if (inverted)
+			val = !val;
 
 		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&pctl->lock, flags);
 		reg = readl(pctl->membase + pctl->pow_mod_sel_offset);
diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.h b/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.h
index d0936a32123ba..2c8648c3301b6 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.h
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.h
@@ -128,8 +128,10 @@ enum sunxi_desc_bias_voltage {
 	 * Bias voltage is set through PIO_POW_MOD_SEL_REG
 	 * and PIO_POW_MOD_CTL_REG register, as seen on
 	 * A100 and D1 SoC, for example.
+	 * Some SoCs invert the encoding for 1.8V vs. 3.3V.
 	 */
 	BIAS_VOLTAGE_PIO_POW_MODE_CTL,
+	BIAS_VOLTAGE_PIO_POW_MODE_CTL_INV,
 };
 
 struct sunxi_desc_function {
-- 
2.46.4

Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: A523: fix voltage withstand encoding

[Per Larsson]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:39:56 +0200
Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> wrote:

> The Allwinner A523 uses the same GPIO voltage "withstand" programming
> (setting the input level voltage thresholds) as the previous SoCs, but
> for some odd reason inverts the encoding of 1.8V vs. 3.3V.
> 
> Add a new bias voltage type to note this difference, and select it for
> the A523. At the same time also use the newer "CTL" version, which in
> addition allows to turn off the withstand programming for I/O voltages
> other than exact 1.8V or 3.3V (for instance for 2.5V sometimes used
> for Ethernet PHYs). The A523 has that enable register, but didn't use
> it so far.
> 
> This fixes eMMC and reportedly Ethernet operation on some A523 boards.
> 
> Fixes: 648be4cd9517 ("pinctrl: sunxi: Add support for the Allwinner
> A523") Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
> ---

I'd say this looks like the correct fix. With this (and removing
the incorrect voltage bump "fix") the eMMC on my X96QPro+ works.
Not seeing any regressions, so

Tested-by: Per Larsson <per@palvencia.se>