Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] serial: 8250: Support separate rs485 rx-enable GPIO

[Farouk Bouabid]

Hi Christoph,


On 30.01.24 13:29, Christoph Niedermaier wrote:
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> From: Farouk Bouabid
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> Hi,
>
> > On 26.01.24 20:58, Lino Sanfilippo wrote:
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> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On 26.01.24 18:27, Farouk Bouabid wrote:
> > > > From: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > The RE signal is used to control the duplex mode of transmissions,
> > > > aka receiving data while sending in full duplex mode, while stopping
> > > > receiving data in half-duplex mode.
> > > >
> > > > On a number of boards the !RE signal is tied to ground so reception
> > > > is always enabled except if the UART allows disabling the receiver.
> > > > This can be taken advantage of to implement half-duplex mode - like
> > > > done on 8250_bcm2835aux.
> > > >
> > > > Another solution is to tie !RE to RTS always forcing half-duplex mode.
> > > >
> > > > And finally there is the option to control the RE signal separately,
> > > > like done here by introducing a new rs485-specific gpio that can be
> > > > set depending on the RX_DURING_TX setting in the common em485 callbacks.
> > > we just added the rx_during_tx_gpio to the serial core.
> > > Why cant you use this GPIO for your purpose?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Lino.
> > What we are trying to implement is a gpio that emulates the RTS signal
> > itself as we do not have a dedicated RTS signal that can be controlled
> > through MCR. The rx during tx state in our case is a fixed state of
> > "NO_RX_WHILE_TX"
> Why can't the property rts-gpios be used here for this purpose?


Yes that indeed serves our purpose. Thank you for the suggestion.


Regards

Farouk

> Regards
> Christoph