[PATCH v4] gpio: mvebu: new gpio driver for mvebu platforms

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Sep 20 08:48:28 EDT 2012


On Wednesday 19 September 2012, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> This patch set adds a new GPIO driver for Marvell EBU SoCs, which aims
> at replacing the existing GPIO driver from plat-orion/gpio.c. The
> driver comes with the necessary DT changes to make it work on Armada
> 370 and Armada XP, and it has been tested successfully by Sebastian
> Hesselbarth on Dove. It should also work flawlessly on other Marvell
> EBU SoCs (Kirkwood, Orion, Discovery), but this remains to be tested
> by the relevant maintainers. This isn't however a problem, as those
> older platforms need to explictly be converted over to the new pinctrl
> driver and the new gpio driver. Until that, they will happily continue
> to use the old, known-working gpio driver. So this patch set has no
> chance to break any of the existing Marvell platforms.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>



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