Re: PXA25x: GPIO driver fails probe due to resource conflict with pinctrl driver

[Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>]

Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> writes:

> Without further code changes this wouldn't be sufficient, 
> because the
> pinctrl driver also touches the GPIO direction registers at 
> offset
> 0x0c-0x14.

Historically, this problem was adressed by a "hack" if I remember 
correctly, as the
registers do overlap (on pxa27x at least, but I think on pxa25x as 
well) :
- GAFR (alternate functions) and GPDR (input or output) are 
  "pinctrl"
- GPSR, GPCR, GPLR are "gpio" registers
- the memory map (physical) at 0x40e0 0000 is as Jonathan wrote :
  - 3 u32 GPLR (gpio)
  - 3 u32 GPDR (pinctrl)
  - 3 u32 GPSR (gpio)
  - 3 u32 GPCR (gpio)

The "hack" was that one driver was mapping the area _without_ 
claiming it (this
is part from memory, I didn't check in the code today). The gpio 
was probably
the claiming one, while the pinctrl was the "only using one".

As of today, I should have a look what was changed, but I'm pretty 
sure in all
pxa2xx architecture there is an overlap, as for these ancient 
platforms the
pinctrl wasn't yet separated from the gpio IC.

The only was out so far I can see from my head would be to declare 
multiple
very small IO ranges :
- pinctrl pxa25x : 0x40e0 000c (12 bytes), 0x40e0 0054 (32 bytes)
- pinctrl pxa25x : 0x40e0 000c (12 bytes), 0x40e0 0054 (32 bytes), 
  0x40e0 010c (4 bytes)
- gpio : from 0x40e0 0000 to 0x40e0 0070 included, without the 
  pinctrl ones

As a general guide, in gpio-pxa.c, you have the table in 
[1]. Think GPDR and GAFR as
pinctrl, and all the other ones as gpio. Ah and yes, the GAFR ones 
are missing in this
table.

One last think : in a pre device-tree world, when we didn't had 
yet the pxa pinctrl
driver, the gpio driver was directly playing with the GPDR 
registers, fun old times.

Cheers.

--
Robert

[1]
/*
 * We handle the GPIOs by banks, each bank covers up to 32 GPIOs 
 with
 * one set of registers. The register offsets are organized below:
 *
 *           GPLR    GPDR    GPSR    GPCR    GRER    GFER    GEDR
 * BANK 0 - 0x0000  0x000C  0x0018  0x0024  0x0030  0x003C  0x0048
 * BANK 1 - 0x0004  0x0010  0x001C  0x0028  0x0034  0x0040  0x004C
 * BANK 2 - 0x0008  0x0014  0x0020  0x002C  0x0038  0x0044  0x0050
 *
 * BANK 3 - 0x0100  0x010C  0x0118  0x0124  0x0130  0x013C  0x0148
 * BANK 4 - 0x0104  0x0110  0x011C  0x0128  0x0134  0x0140  0x014C
 * BANK 5 - 0x0108  0x0114  0x0120  0x012C  0x0138  0x0144  0x0150
 *
 * BANK 6 - 0x0200  0x020C  0x0218  0x0224  0x0230  0x023C  0x0248
 *
 * NOTE:
 *   BANK 3 is only available on PXA27x and later processors.
 *   BANK 4 and 5 are only available on PXA935, PXA1928
 *   BANK 6 is only available on PXA1928
 */