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From: Misbah khan <misbah_khan@engineer.com>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: PPC440EPx GPIO control help
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:17:26 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13252501.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1192618194.13993.25.camel@localhost.localdomain>


I Prefer that you write a coustem driver. map the GPIO address (Either make
use of mapped area of GPIO that u may find in the source for comercial
kernel or else map the physical address in the driver and access it ).

---Misbah


Josh Boyer-4 wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 23:21 -0700, Jeff Mock wrote:
>> David Hawkins wrote:
>> >> I have a PPC440EPx Sequoia Evaluation board that runs on Linux 2.6.21. 
>> >> What I would want to do is to control (write and read values to) its 
>> >> GPIO. Perhaps similar to Turbo C's outputb(0x378,0x01) to write and 
>> >> inportb(0x378) to read. I read the PPC440EPx manual but I find it 
>> >> difficult to understand.
>> >>
>> >> Could anyone show me any tutorial or some sample codes?
>> > 
>> > I copied the code below from some test code I wrote for a TS7300
>> > board (uses an ARM EP9302 processor). However, since its user-space
>> > code it should work fine.
>> > 
>> 
>> I might be a little out of date, but I think you must write your own 
>> driver to wiggle the GPIO pins on a 440 processor.  I just finished a 
>> project using a 440GX with a 2.6.15 kernel (we froze the code about 8 
>> months ago).
>> 
>> The 440 powerPC core is a 32-bit processor with 36-bit physical 
>> addresses.  The physical address for the GPIO pins is someplace above 
>> 4GB.  An mmap() of /dev/mem only lets you map the lower 4GB of the 
>> address space, as a result you can't write a user space program on the 
>> 440 to wiggle the GPIO pins.  (This was true with 2.6.15, I can't speak 
>> for later kernels).
> 
> This depends on the 440 chip itself.  If I recall correctly, the
> 440EP(x) chips don't have I/O above 4GB.
> 
> josh
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-17 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-17  3:29 PPC440EPx GPIO control help Dell Query
2007-10-17  4:15 ` David Hawkins
2007-10-17  6:21   ` Jeff Mock
2007-10-17 10:49     ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-17 12:17       ` Misbah khan [this message]
2007-10-17 20:26       ` Jeff Mock
2007-10-17 20:41         ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-17 16:19     ` David Hawkins
2007-10-18  2:05       ` Dell Query
2007-10-18  2:00     ` Dell Query
2007-10-18  3:22       ` Jeff Mock
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-17  3:14 Dell Query

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