[PATCH v3 2/4] dt-bindings: gpio: add raspberry pi GPIO expander binding

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Mon Jan 29 08:11:34 PST 2018


On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 02:45:08PM +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> 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>
> ---
> v3:
>   * Rename node name.
> 
> v2:
>   * Rename compatible string to raspberrypi,firmware-gpio
> ---
>  .../bindings/gpio/raspberrypi,firmware-gpio.txt    | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/raspberrypi,firmware-gpio.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/raspberrypi,firmware-gpio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/raspberrypi,firmware-gpio.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..936dc59eba12
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/raspberrypi,firmware-gpio.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 "raspberrypi,firmware-gpio"
> +- 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: gpio-expander {

Still not right. The correct generic node name is "gpio".

> +	compatible = "raspberrypi,firmware-gpio";
> +	gpio-controller;
> +	#gpio-cells = <2>;
> +	firmware = <&firmware>;

Can you make this a child of the firmware node instead?

Rob



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