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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt
index 802402f6cc5d..b37dbb1edc62 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt
@@ -1,18 +1,9 @@
Specifying GPIO information for devices
-============================================
+=======================================
1) gpios property
-----------------
-Nodes that makes use of GPIOs should specify them using one or more
-properties, each containing a 'gpio-list':
-
- gpio-list ::= <single-gpio> [gpio-list]
- single-gpio ::= <gpio-phandle> <gpio-specifier>
- gpio-phandle : phandle to gpio controller node
- gpio-specifier : Array of #gpio-cells specifying specific gpio
- (controller specific)
-
GPIO properties should be named "[<name>-]gpios", with <name> being the purpose
of this GPIO for the device. While a non-existent <name> is considered valid
for compatibility reasons (resolving to the "gpios" property), it is not allowed
@@ -33,33 +24,27 @@ The following example could be used to describe GPIO pins used as device enable
and bit-banged data signals:
gpio1: gpio1 {
- gpio-controller
- #gpio-cells = <2>;
- };
- gpio2: gpio2 {
- gpio-controller
- #gpio-cells = <1>;
+ gpio-controller;
+ #gpio-cells = <2>;
};
[...]
- enable-gpios = <&gpio2 2>;
data-gpios = <&gpio1 12 0>,
<&gpio1 13 0>,
<&gpio1 14 0>,
<&gpio1 15 0>;
-Note that gpio-specifier length is controller dependent. In the
-above example, &gpio1 uses 2 cells to specify a gpio, while &gpio2
-only uses one.
+In the above example, &gpio1 uses 2 cells to specify a gpio. The first cell is
+a local offset to the GPIO line and the second cell represents consumer flags,
+such as if the consumer desires the line to be active low (inverted) or open
+drain. This is the recommended practice.
-gpio-specifier may encode: bank, pin position inside the bank,
-whether pin is open-drain and whether pin is logically inverted.
+The exact meaning of each specifier cell is controller specific, and must be
+documented in the device tree binding for the device, but it is strongly
+recommended to use the two-cell approach.
-Exact meaning of each specifier cell is controller specific, and must
-be documented in the device tree binding for the device.
-
-Most controllers are however specifying a generic flag bitfield
-in the last cell, so for these, use the macros defined in
+Most controllers are specifying a generic flag bitfield in the last cell, so
+for these, use the macros defined in
include/dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h whenever possible:
Example of a node using GPIOs:
@@ -74,7 +59,7 @@ GPIO pin number, and GPIO flags as accepted by the "qe_pio_e" gpio-controller.
Optional standard bitfield specifiers for the last cell:
- Bit 0: 0 means active high, 1 means active low
-- Bit 1: 0 mean push-pull wiring, see:
+- Bit 1: 0 means push-pull wiring, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push-pull_output
1 means single-ended wiring, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-ended_triode
@@ -82,6 +67,18 @@ Optional standard bitfield specifiers for the last cell:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_collector
- Bit 3: 0 means the output should be maintained during sleep/low-power mode
1 means the output state can be lost during sleep/low-power mode
+- Bit 4: 0 means no pull-up resistor should be enabled
+ 1 means a pull-up resistor should be enabled
+ This setting only applies to hardware with a simple on/off
+ control for pull-up configuration. If the hardware has more
+ elaborate pull-up configuration, it should be represented
+ using a pin control binding.
+- Bit 5: 0 means no pull-down resistor should be enabled
+ 1 means a pull-down resistor should be enabled
+ This setting only applies to hardware with a simple on/off
+ control for pull-down configuration. If the hardware has more
+ elaborate pull-down configuration, it should be represented
+ using a pin control binding.
1.1) GPIO specifier best practices
----------------------------------
@@ -151,24 +148,41 @@ in a lot of designs, some using all 32 bits, some using 18 and some using
first 18 GPIOs, at local offset 0 .. 17, are in use.
If these GPIOs do not happen to be the first N GPIOs at offset 0...N-1, an
-additional bitmask is needed to specify which GPIOs are actually in use,
-and which are dummies. The bindings for this case has not yet been
-specified, but should be specified if/when such hardware appears.
+additional set of tuples is needed to specify which GPIOs are unusable, with
+the gpio-reserved-ranges binding. This property indicates the start and size
+of the GPIOs that can't be used.
Optionally, a GPIO controller may have a "gpio-line-names" property. This is
an array of strings defining the names of the GPIO lines going out of the
-GPIO controller. This name should be the most meaningful producer name
-for the system, such as a rail name indicating the usage. Package names
-such as pin name are discouraged: such lines have opaque names (since they
-are by definition generic purpose) and such names are usually not very
-helpful. For example "MMC-CD", "Red LED Vdd" and "ethernet reset" are
-reasonable line names as they describe what the line is used for. "GPIO0"
-is not a good name to give to a GPIO line. Placeholders are discouraged:
-rather use the "" (blank string) if the use of the GPIO line is undefined
-in your design. The names are assigned starting from line offset 0 from
-left to right from the passed array. An incomplete array (where the number
-of passed named are less than ngpios) will still be used up until the last
-provided valid line index.
+GPIO controller.
+
+For lines which are routed to on-board devices, this name should be
+the most meaningful producer name for the system, such as a rail name
+indicating the usage. Package names, such as a pin name, are discouraged:
+such lines have opaque names (since they are by definition general-purpose)
+and such names are usually not very helpful. For example "MMC-CD", "Red LED
+Vdd" and "ethernet reset" are reasonable line names as they describe what
+the line is used for. "GPIO0" is not a good name to give to a GPIO line
+that is hard-wired to a specific device.
+
+However, in the case of lines that are routed to a general purpose header
+(e.g. the Raspberry Pi 40-pin header), and therefore are not hard-wired to
+specific devices, using a pin number or the names on the header is fine
+provided these are real (preferably unique) names. Using an SoC's pad name
+or package name, or names made up from kernel-internal software constructs,
+are strongly discouraged. For example "pin8 [gpio14/uart0_txd]" is fine
+if the board's documentation labels pin 8 as such. However "PortB_24" (an
+example of a name from an SoC's reference manual) would not be desirable.
+
+In either case placeholders are discouraged: rather use the "" (blank
+string) if the use of the GPIO line is undefined in your design. Ideally,
+try to add comments to the dts file describing the naming convention
+you have chosen, and specifying from where the names are derived.
+
+The names are assigned starting from line offset 0, from left to right,
+from the passed array. An incomplete array (where the number of passed
+names is less than ngpios) will be used up until the last provided valid
+line index.
Example:
@@ -178,6 +192,7 @@ gpio-controller@00000000 {
gpio-controller;
#gpio-cells = <2>;
ngpios = <18>;
+ gpio-reserved-ranges = <0 4>, <12 2>;
gpio-line-names = "MMC-CD", "MMC-WP", "VDD eth", "RST eth", "LED R",
"LED G", "LED B", "Col A", "Col B", "Col C", "Col D",
"Row A", "Row B", "Row C", "Row D", "NMI button",
@@ -215,7 +230,7 @@ Example of two SOC GPIO banks defined as gpio-controller nodes:
gpio-controller;
#gpio-cells = <2>;
- line_b {
+ line_b-hog {
gpio-hog;
gpios = <6 0>;
output-low;
@@ -235,46 +250,40 @@ Example of two SOC GPIO banks defined as gpio-controller nodes:
Some or all of the GPIOs provided by a GPIO controller may be routed to pins
on the package via a pin controller. This allows muxing those pins between
-GPIO and other functions.
+GPIO and other functions. It is a fairly common practice among silicon
+engineers.
+
+2.2) Ordinary (numerical) GPIO ranges
+-------------------------------------
It is useful to represent which GPIOs correspond to which pins on which pin
-controllers. The gpio-ranges property described below represents this, and
-contains information structures as follows:
-
- gpio-range-list ::= <single-gpio-range> [gpio-range-list]
- single-gpio-range ::= <numeric-gpio-range> | <named-gpio-range>
- numeric-gpio-range ::=
- <pinctrl-phandle> <gpio-base> <pinctrl-base> <count>
- named-gpio-range ::= <pinctrl-phandle> <gpio-base> '<0 0>'
- pinctrl-phandle : phandle to pin controller node
- gpio-base : Base GPIO ID in the GPIO controller
- pinctrl-base : Base pinctrl pin ID in the pin controller
- count : The number of GPIOs/pins in this range
-
-The "pin controller node" mentioned above must conform to the bindings
-described in ../pinctrl/pinctrl-bindings.txt.
-
-In case named gpio ranges are used (ranges with both <pinctrl-base> and
-<count> set to 0), the property gpio-ranges-group-names contains one string
-for every single-gpio-range in gpio-ranges:
- gpiorange-names-list ::= <gpiorange-name> [gpiorange-names-list]
- gpiorange-name : Name of the pingroup associated to the GPIO range in
- the respective pin controller.
-
-Elements of gpiorange-names-list corresponding to numeric ranges contain
-the empty string. Elements of gpiorange-names-list corresponding to named
-ranges contain the name of a pin group defined in the respective pin
-controller. The number of pins/GPIOs in the range is the number of pins in
-that pin group.
+controllers. The gpio-ranges property described below represents this with
+a discrete set of ranges mapping pins from the pin controller local number space
+to pins in the GPIO controller local number space.
-Previous versions of this binding required all pin controller nodes that
-were referenced by any gpio-ranges property to contain a property named
-#gpio-range-cells with value <3>. This requirement is now deprecated.
-However, that property may still exist in older device trees for
-compatibility reasons, and would still be required even in new device
-trees that need to be compatible with older software.
+The format is: <[pin controller phandle], [GPIO controller offset],
+ [pin controller offset], [number of pins]>;
+
+The GPIO controller offset pertains to the GPIO controller node containing the
+range definition.
+
+The pin controller node referenced by the phandle must conform to the bindings
+described in pinctrl/pinctrl-bindings.txt.
+
+Each offset runs from 0 to N. It is perfectly fine to pile any number of
+ranges with just one pin-to-GPIO line mapping if the ranges are concocted, but
+in practice these ranges are often lumped in discrete sets.
+
+Example:
+
+ gpio-ranges = <&foo 0 20 10>, <&bar 10 50 20>;
-Example 1:
+This means:
+- pins 20..29 on pin controller "foo" is mapped to GPIO line 0..9 and
+- pins 50..69 on pin controller "bar" is mapped to GPIO line 10..29
+
+
+Verbose example:
qe_pio_e: gpio-controller@1460 {
#gpio-cells = <2>;
@@ -288,9 +297,30 @@ Here, a single GPIO controller has GPIOs 0..9 routed to pin controller
pinctrl1's pins 20..29, and GPIOs 10..29 routed to pin controller pinctrl2's
pins 50..69.
-Example 2:
- gpio_pio_i: gpio-controller@14B0 {
+2.3) GPIO ranges from named pin groups
+--------------------------------------
+
+It is also possible to use pin groups for gpio ranges when pin groups are the
+easiest and most convenient mapping.
+
+Both <pinctrl-base> and <count> must be set to 0 when using named pin groups
+names.
+
+The property gpio-ranges-group-names must contain exactly one string for each
+range.
+
+Elements of gpio-ranges-group-names must contain the name of a pin group
+defined in the respective pin controller. The number of pins/GPIO lines in the
+range is the number of pins in that pin group. The number of pins of that
+group is defined in the implementation and not in the device tree.
+
+If numerical and named pin groups are mixed, the string corresponding to a
+numerical pin range in gpio-ranges-group-names must be empty.
+
+Example:
+
+ gpio_pio_i: gpio-controller@14b0 {
#gpio-cells = <2>;
compatible = "fsl,qe-pario-bank-e", "fsl,qe-pario-bank";
reg = <0x1480 0x18>;
@@ -305,6 +335,14 @@ Example 2:
"bar";
};
-Here, three GPIO ranges are defined wrt. two pin controllers. pinctrl1 GPIO
-ranges are defined using pin numbers whereas the GPIO ranges wrt. pinctrl2
-are named "foo" and "bar".
+Here, three GPIO ranges are defined referring to two pin controllers.
+
+pinctrl1 GPIO ranges are defined using pin numbers whereas the GPIO ranges
+in pinctrl2 are defined using the pin groups named "foo" and "bar".
+
+Previous versions of this binding required all pin controller nodes that
+were referenced by any gpio-ranges property to contain a property named
+#gpio-range-cells with value <3>. This requirement is now deprecated.
+However, that property may still exist in older device trees for
+compatibility reasons, and would still be required even in new device
+trees that need to be compatible with older software.