[PATCH 2/4] dt-bindings: gpio: add raspberry pi GPIO expander binding

[Stefan Wahren]

Hi Baruch,

> Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> hat am 2. Januar 2018 um 14:19 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> The Raspberry Pi 3 GPIO expander is controlled by the VC4 firmware over
> I2C. The firmware mailbox interface allows the ARM core to control the
> GPIO lines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
> ---
>  .../bindings/gpio/brcm,bcm2835-expgpio.txt         | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/brcm,bcm2835-expgpio.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/brcm,bcm2835-expgpio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/brcm,bcm2835-expgpio.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..55257f31a9be
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/brcm,bcm2835-expgpio.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
> +Raspberry Pi GPIO expander
> +
> +The Raspberry Pi 3 GPIO expander is controlled by the VC4 firmware. The
> +firmware exposes a mailbox interface that allows the ARM core to control the
> +GPIO lines on the expander.
> +
> +Required properties:
> +
> +- compatible : Should be "brcm,bcm2835-expgpio"

from my understand this driver is specific to the Raspberry Pi and it's vendor is the Raspberry Pi Foundation. So i prefer Eric's suggestion of "raspberrypi,firmware-gpio", which also applies to the filename.

> +- gpio-controller : Marks the device node as a gpio controller
> +- #gpio-cells : Should be two.  The first cell is the pin number, and
> +  the second cell is used to specify the gpio polarity:
> +  0 = active high
> +  1 = active low
> +- firmware : Reference to the RPi firmware device node
> +
> +Example:
> +
> +expgpio: expgpio {
> +	compatible = "brcm,bcm2835-expgpio";
> +	gpio-controller;
> +	#gpio-cells = <2>;
> +	firmware = <&firmware>;
> +};
> -- 
> 2.15.1
> 
> 
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