[PATCH] gpio: spacemit-k1: Use PDR for pin direction, not SDR/CDR

[Troy Mitchell]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 10:58:49AM +0800, Vivian Wang wrote:
> On the SpacemiT GPIO controller, the direction control register PDR is
> readable and writable [1]. Therefore, implement direction control by
> using PDR as dirout, and don't mark it as unreadable.
> 
> The original implementation, using SDR as dirout and CDR as dirin, is
> not actually a supported configuration by gpio-mmio. The hardware
> supports changing the direction of some pins atomically by writing a
> value with the corresponding bits set to SDR (set as output) or to CDR
> (set as input). However, gpio-mmio does not actually handle this.
> 
> Using only PDR as dirout to match the expectations of gpio-mmio. This
> also allows us to avoid clobbering potentially important GPIO direction
> configurations set by pre-Linux boot stages.
> 
> Found while trying to add PCIe support to OrangePi RV2, where the
> regulator (controlled by GPIO 116) turns off on boot while some other
> GPIO pin in the same bank is touched, which is not desirable.
> 
> Link: https://developer.spacemit.com/documentation?token=Rn9Kw3iFHirAMgkIpTAcV2Arnkf#18.4-gpio # [1]
> Fixes: d00553240ef8 ("gpio: spacemit: add support for K1 SoC")
> Signed-off-by: Vivian Wang <wangruikang at iscas.ac.cn>
> ---
> Tested on K1 only - help with K3 testing would be appreciated.
Confirmed that PDR is also R/W on K3. Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Troy Mitchell <troy.mitchell at linux.spacemit.com>