[RFC PATH 1/2] dt-bindings: gpio: add starfive, jh7100-gpio bindings

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Fri Jul 2 14:03:56 PDT 2021


Hi Drew,

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 10:56 PM Drew Fustini <drew at beagleboard.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 10:34:56AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 2:22 AM Drew Fustini <drew at beagleboard.org> wrote:
> > > Add bindings for the GPIO controller in the StarFive JH7100 SoC [1].
> > >
> > > [1] https://github.com/starfive-tech/beaglev_doc
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Drew Fustini <drew at beagleboard.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Huan Feng <huan.feng at starfivetech.com>
> >
> > Thanks for your patch!
> >
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/starfive,jh7100-gpio.yaml
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
> > > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)
> > > +%YAML 1.2
> > > +---
> > > +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/gpio/starfive,jh7100-gpio.yaml#
> > > +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> > > +
> > > +title: StarFive JH7100 GPIO controller
> > > +
> > > +maintainers:
> > > +  - Huan Feng <huan.feng at starfivetech.com>
> > > +  - Drew Fustini <drew at beagleboard.org>
> > > +
> > > +properties:
> > > +  compatible:
> > > +    items:
> > > +      - const: starfive,jh7100-gpio
> > > +
> > > +  reg:
> > > +    maxItems: 1
> > > +
> > > +  interrupts:
> > > +    description:
> > > +      Interrupt mapping, one per GPIO. Maximum 32 GPIOs.
> > > +    minItems: 1
> > > +    maxItems: 32
> >
> > What about clocks and resets?
>
> Thank you for your feedback, Geert.
>
> GPIO controller uses clk_apb1_bus under dom0_sys.  I believe the device
> tree node would use something like this:
>
>   clocks = <&clkgen JH7100_CLK_APB1>;
>
> I see the sifive-gpio.yaml has:
>
>   clocks:
>     maxItems: 1
>
> Would that be the correct way to do it for the starfive gpio yaml?

Yep.

> The reset for GPIO controller is presetn under dom_sys.  Do you think
> know you know an example that has reset in the YAML?  Is there some code
> that would actually make use of that information?
>
> >
> > > +
> > > +  gpio-controller: true
> > > +
> > > +  "#gpio-cells":
> > > +    const: 2
> > > +
> > > +  interrupt-controller: true
> > > +
> > > +  "#interrupt-cells":
> > > +    const: 2
> > > +
> > > +required:
> > > +  - compatible
> > > +  - reg
> > > +  - interrupts
> > > +  - interrupt-controller
> > > +  - "#interrupt-cells"
> > > +  - "#gpio-cells"
> > > +  - gpio-controller
>
> Do you think I should add 'clocks' to 'required:'?

I'm still having issues with i2c if the GPIO block lists a clock, due to
fw_devlink dependencies.

> > > +
> > > +additionalProperties: false
> > > +
> > > +examples:
> > > +  - |
> > > +      gpio at 11910000 {
> > > +        compatible = "starfive,jh7100-gpio";
> > > +        reg = <0x11910000 0x10000>;
> > > +        gpio-controller;
> > > +        #gpio-cells = <2>;
> > > +        interrupt-controller;
> > > +        #interrupt-cells = <2>;
> > > +        interrupts = <32>;
>
> I would add:
>
>   clocks = <&clkgen JH7100_CLK_APB1>;
>
> But I am not sure how reset would work?

That should become "resets = <&rstgen JH7100_RSTN_GPIO_APB>",
but we don't have the reset controller in Linux yet (we do in barebox).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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