Re: [RFC v7 4/6] gpio: mpfs: add polarfire soc gpio support

[Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>]

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On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 10:04:53AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 1:28 PM Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > From: Lewis Hanly <lewis.hanly@microchip.com>
> >
> > Add a driver to support the Polarfire SoC gpio controller
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lewis Hanly <lewis.hanly@microchip.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
> 
> Just a comment on second thought:
> 
> > +config GPIO_POLARFIRE_SOC
> > +       bool "Microchip FPGA GPIO support"
> > +       depends on OF_GPIO
> > +       select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
> 
> select GPIO_GENERIC?
> 
> > +static int mpfs_gpio_direction_input(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int gpio_index)
> > +{
> > +       struct mpfs_gpio_chip *mpfs_gpio = gpiochip_get_data(gc);
> > +       u32 gpio_cfg;
> > +       unsigned long flags;
> > +
> > +       raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&mpfs_gpio->lock, flags);
> > +
> > +       gpio_cfg = readl(mpfs_gpio->base + MPFS_GPIO_CTRL(gpio_index));
> > +       gpio_cfg |= MPFS_GPIO_EN_IN;
> > +       gpio_cfg &= ~(MPFS_GPIO_EN_OUT | MPFS_GPIO_EN_OUT_BUF);
> 
> OK this part is unique...
> 
> > +static int mpfs_gpio_direction_output(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int gpio_index, int value)
> > +{
> > +       struct mpfs_gpio_chip *mpfs_gpio = gpiochip_get_data(gc);
> > +       u32 gpio_cfg;
> > +       unsigned long flags;
> > +
> > +       raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&mpfs_gpio->lock, flags);
> > +
> > +       gpio_cfg = readl(mpfs_gpio->base + MPFS_GPIO_CTRL(gpio_index));
> > +       gpio_cfg |= MPFS_GPIO_EN_OUT | MPFS_GPIO_EN_OUT_BUF;
> 
> Also here
> 
> > +static int mpfs_gpio_get_direction(struct gpio_chip *gc,
> > +                                  unsigned int gpio_index)
> > +static int mpfs_gpio_get(struct gpio_chip *gc,
> > +                        unsigned int gpio_index)
> > +static void mpfs_gpio_set(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int gpio_index, int value)
> 
> But these are just MMIO functions.
> 
> Is it possible to use augmented generic MMIO, i.e just override these
> two functions that
> need special handling?

So, I've been looking into this again (finally), with an eye to stripping
the interrupt handling bits out, and trying to upstream this in pieces.
I dunno if I'm making a mistake here, but I don't know if there's much
value in implementing this suggestion - as far as I can tell only the
get()/set() functions can be replaced by what's provided by gpio-mmio.c.
There are no controller wide registers that control direction and so
bgpio_get_dir() can't be used - direction is read from the same
mpfs_gpio->base + MPFS_GPIO_CTRL(gpio_index) registers that it is set
using. Adding bgpio stuff, to just go ahead and overwrite it, to save on
trivial get()/set() implementations seems to me like adding complication
rather than removing it. What am I missing here?

Cheers,
Conor.

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