Re: [RFC] pinctrl driver for Zynq

[Steffen Trumtrar]

Hi!

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 02:09:14PM -0700, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think I have pinctrl driver that is covering the pinmux options of
> Zynq and I also figured out how the DT bindings work.
> 
> But there are a couple of things that probably could be done better.
> 
> One thing making the DT bindings explode, seems to be all those single
> pin functions that can be muxed to every pin.
> Next to GPIO, this applies to SD card and write protect - which are even
> present twice since Zynq has two SDIO cores. Just these functions
> account for a couple of hundred nodes in the DT and a bunch of lines in
> the driver. Is there a better way to do this?
> 
> In particular for GPIO there seemed to be a better solution with
> implementing gpio_request_enable(), but that seemed to allow GPIO in
> parallel to request and mux the pin which does not work on Zynq. IOW: I
> expected the core would reject a call of gpio_request_enable for a pin
> that is already muxed to some other function, but that was not the case
> in my testing. Am I missing something here?
> 
> And finally, for SD card detect and write protect, we actually have to
> disable the muxing. The problem with those functions is, that they have
> a dedicated mux for that function which is in parallel to the "normal"
> pinmuxes. So, muxing a "normal" function to a pin would not void the
> muxing of the SD signals. I thought this would be easily resolved by
> implementing the 'disable' op, but after I did that, I noticed that
> there is only a stale documentation comment of this member of struct
> pinmux_ops left, the actual function pointer is gone.
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 	Sören
> 
> ------------8<-----------------8<-------------------8<--------------8<----------
> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:24:35 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH RFC] pinctrl: Add driver for Zynq
> 
> Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/zynq-7000.dtsi | 3039 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/zynq-zc706.dts |   13 +
>  arch/arm/mach-zynq/Kconfig       |    1 +
>  drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig          |    8 +
>  drivers/pinctrl/Makefile         |    1 +
>  drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-zynq.c   |  927 ++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 3988 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-zynq.c
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/zynq-7000.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/zynq-7000.dtsi
> index 6cc83d4c6c76..814873da0392 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/zynq-7000.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/zynq-7000.dtsi
> @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
>  		slcr: slcr@f8000000 {
>  			#address-cells = <1>;
>  			#size-cells = <1>;
> -			compatible = "xlnx,zynq-slcr", "syscon";
> +			compatible = "xlnx,zynq-slcr", "syscon", "simple-bus";
>  			reg = <0xF8000000 0x1000>;
>  			ranges;
>  			clkc: clkc@100 {
> @@ -250,6 +250,3043 @@
>  						"dbg_trc", "dbg_apb";
>  				reg = <0x100 0x100>;
>  			};
> +
> +			pinctrl0: pinctrl@700 {
> +				compatible = "xlnx,pinctrl-zynq";
> +				reg = <0x700 0x200>;
> +
> +				pinctrl_i2c0_0: pinctrl-i2c0@0 {
> +					i2c0-mux {
> +						function = "i2c0";
> +						pins = "i2c0_0_grp";
> +					};
> +				};
> +

(...)

> +				pinctrl_sdio1_cd_54: pinctrl-sdio1_cd@54 {
> +					sdio1_cd-mux {
> +						function = "sdio1_cd";
> +						pins = "sdio1_emio_cd_grp";
> +					};
> +				};
> +			};
>  		};
>  

Wouldn't this reaaally bloat the dtb?
I know that imx decided to remove all the pinctrls from the dtsis, because
the dtbs got to big.

Regards,
Steffen

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