[PATCH 1/3] gpio: Add APM X-Gene SoC GPIO controller support

[Feng Kan]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Feng Kan <fkan at apm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Feng Kan <fkan at apm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I see each bank as separate gpio chip. It is a simple way to
>>> abstract the banks since they can operate independently.
>>
>> I think they should also be separate devices, and separate nodes
>> in the device tree.
>>
>>> It also
>>> provided me a way to fix the sysfs gpio base number, regardless if
>>> a particular bank node is pulled out.
>>
>> The GPIO sysfs is unpredictable for this and many other
>> reasons and should not be relied upon.
>>
>>> This is also done in similar way
>>> in some other gpio drivers such as the dwapb gpio driver.
>>
>> I think the dwapb has it's registers mingled while your banks
>> seem to be separate chunks.
>
> Thanks for the comments, I will fix these problems. Just some details
> in terms of the register layout. I will break out the gpio to separate
> device nodes as instructed, I will have to use the reg attribute to offset
> bank registers. Please let me know if it is acceptable.
>
> gfc_gpio_fl0              GFC42'h1701c00c
> gfc_gpio_fl0_mux      GFC42'h1701c010
> gfc_gpio_fl1              GFC42'h1701c018
> gfc_gpio_fl1_mux      GFC42'h1701c01c
> gfc_gpio_fl2              GFC42'h1701c024
> gfc_gpio_fl2_mux      GFC42'h1701c028
> gfc_gpio_fl0_od        GFC42'h1701c030
> gfc_gpio_fl1_od        GFC42'h1701c034
> gfc_gpio_fl2_od        GFC42'h1701c038

Please kindly give some guidance on this, as you can see the individual
gpio bank is interleaved in the address space, it is not likely to break this
into multiple device nodes.
>
>
>
>>
>> Yours,
>> Linus Walleij