GPIO support for HTC Dream

Daniel Walker dwalker at codeaurora.org
Tue Dec 15 15:07:06 EST 2009


On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 20:12 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > One other thing.  Are the gpio's handled by Pavel's driver actually from the
> > > MSM chip or from an external CPLD?  The registers are all defined as:
> > >
> > > +               .reg = reg_num + DREAM_CPLD_BASE,
> > >
> > > If they are external from the MSM chip this driver should probably be renamed
> > > to something more appropriate since it is probably dream specific and not
> > > generic to the msm architecture.
> > 
> > These are board specific gpios. I think it would be less confusing if
> > the msm gpio support was added first.
> 
> I did not see msm-generic gpios in the trees, where are they? What is
> connected over them?

Did you look at arch/arm/mach-msm/gpio.[ch] ? It looks like there some
idle related code in there, and "SMEM" is connected through that code.
(unless I'm looking at an older tree.)

Daniel




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