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From: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
To: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] pinctrl: add Intel BayTrail GPIO/pinctrl support
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:11:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <534BFAAF.3070805@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <534B93BA.6020406@linux.intel.com>

On 04/14/2014 02:52 AM, Mathias Nyman wrote:
>>
>
> This was the conclusion we reached after some discussion with Linus W.
> Initially this was just a GPIO driver, but Linus correctly spotted that
> Baytrail has many pinctrl-like features (like pin muxing, etc) that we
> might need to address in the future.
>
> threads where this was discussed:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136994203308585&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137113578604763&w=2

So this is the interesting part:

> We expect BIOS to set all pin configurations correctly.

This device will only be used on an ACPI system, right?  And isn't ACPI 
supposed to hide all the pinctrl programming from the OS?  I thought 
that was the whole point behind ACPI and the reason why ARM64 isn't 
going to use device trees.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-14 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-18 11:33 [PATCH v3 0/1] Pinctrl/gpio driver for Intel Baytrail platforms Mathias Nyman
2013-06-18 11:33 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] pinctrl: add Intel BayTrail GPIO/pinctrl support Mathias Nyman
2013-06-18 15:17   ` Linus Walleij
2013-06-19 10:28     ` Mathias Nyman
2014-04-11 22:54   ` Timur Tabi
2014-04-14  7:52     ` Mathias Nyman
2014-04-14 15:11       ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2014-04-15 10:01         ` Mathias Nyman
2014-04-17 16:47           ` Timur Tabi
2014-04-23 11:46             ` Mathias Nyman
2014-04-23 12:07               ` Timur Tabi
2014-04-23 13:59                 ` Westerberg, Mika
2014-04-23 15:14                   ` Timur Tabi
2014-04-23 22:20                     ` Linus Walleij
2014-04-23 22:54                       ` Timur Tabi
2014-04-24  6:27                       ` Westerberg, Mika
2014-04-24 11:20                         ` Timur Tabi
2014-04-24 11:38                           ` Westerberg, Mika
2014-04-24  6:35                     ` Westerberg, Mika
2014-04-24 11:18                       ` Timur Tabi
2014-04-24 11:58                         ` Westerberg, Mika
2014-04-24 13:29                           ` Linus Walleij
2014-04-24 15:25                           ` Timur Tabi
2014-04-25  7:41                             ` Westerberg, Mika
2014-04-25 10:36                               ` Linus Walleij
2014-04-25 16:13                               ` Timur Tabi
2014-04-25 16:21                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-04-25 16:31                                   ` Timur Tabi
2014-05-02 22:31                                     ` Linus Walleij
2014-04-23 22:17     ` Linus Walleij

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