[U-Boot] [PATCH 6/9] ARM: sunxi: Add support for R_PIO gpio banks

Maxime Ripard
2014-10-13T12:57:00Z

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 04:23:05PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 15:11 +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> >> From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> >>
> >> The A31, A23 and later SoCs have an extra pin controller, called CPUs_PIO
> >> or R_PIO, which handles pin banks L and beyond.
> >
> > Does it also have enough space for 9 banks? Since you overlay a struct
> > sunxi_gpio_reg on it which has a gpio_bank[SUNXI_GPIO_BANKS] over it.
>
> Yes it does, as seen in the latest A31 manuals released by Allwinner.
>
> > SUNXI_GPIO_BANKS is now also confusingly named since it is really
> > "number of banks on the first/original GPIO controller". Eventually
> > someone will use it as the actual total and be very sad.
> >
> > I think it might be best if we retcon some distinct name onto the
> > original GPIO controller so we can have SUNXIO_GPIO_BLA_BANKS and
> > SUNXI_GPIO_R_BANKS (or even just call them controller 0 and 1 and have
> > SUNXI_GPIO0_BANKS and SUNXI_GPIO1_BANKS, if that's not too confusing)
>
> The latest manuals have "CPUx-PORT" and "CPUs-PORT" for the respective
> chapters. I'm guessing "x" is for 0~3 cores, and s is for standby or
> something.

iirc, it was meant for "special".

>
> Of course it's also confusing that Allwinner's sources use the "R_"
> prefix for all hardware in that address range, while the datasheet
> lists the GPIO function names as "s_something".

We use the same pin convention than in the datasheet in mainline (but
starting from PL for the special pins). And it's true that we do
prefix all the functions by s_, once again, just like the datasheet
does.

The fact that it comes from a different controller is only expressed
by where the pinctrl pins node is defined in the DT.

Maxime

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