[PATCH v2 1/3] dt-bindings: pinctrl: Add a reserved-gpio-ranges property

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com
Fri Jan 26 01:20:26 PST 2018


On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 17:13 -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Some qcom platforms make some GPIOs or pins unavailable for use
> by non-secure operating systems, and thus reading or writing the
> registers for those pins will cause access control issues.
> Introduce a DT property to describe the set of GPIOs that are
> available for use so that higher level OSes are able to know what
> pins to avoid reading/writing.

>  	gpio-controller;
>  	#gpio-cells = <2>;
>  	ngpios = <18>;
> +	reserved-gpio-ranges = <0 4>, <12 2>;

What about preserving namespace, i.e.

gpio-reserved-ranges vs. your variant?

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy



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