Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] pinctrl: rockchip: Add iomux-route switching support

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Mon May 29 2017 - 08:25:17 EST


On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 9:20 AM, David Wu <david.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On the some rockchip SOCS, some things like rk3399 specific uart2 can use
> multiple pins. Somewhere between the pin io-cells and the uart it seems
> to have some sort of switch to decide to which pin to actually route the
> data.
>
> +-------+ +--------+ /- GPIO4_B0 (pinmux 2)
>
> | uart2 | -- | switch | --- GPIO4_C0 (pinmux 2)
>
> +-------+ +--------+ \- GPIO4_C3 (pinmux 2)
> (switch selects one of the 3 pins base on the GRF_SOC_CON7[BIT0, BIT1])
>
> The routing switch is determined by one pin of a specific group to be set
> to its special pinmux function. If the pinmux setting is wrong for that
> pin the ip block won't work correctly anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Wu <david.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied with Heiko's ACK.

Yours,
Linus Walleij