[PATCH RESEND 0/6 v10] gpio: Add block GPIO

Roland Stigge stigge at antcom.de
Mon Dec 17 13:02:45 EST 2012


On 12/17/2012 06:37 PM, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> 	/* Do synchronous data output with a single write access */
> 	__raw_writel(~mask, pio + PIO_OWDR);
> 	__raw_writel(mask, pio + PIO_OWER);
> 	__raw_writel(val, pio + PIO_ODSR);
> 
> For caching we would need a storage. Not sure if it's worth compared to
> a context switch into the kernel.

Block GPIO is not only for you in userspace. ;-) You can also implement
efficient n-bit bus I/O in kernel drivers, n-bit-banging. :-) So not
always context switches involved.

Roland



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