[U-Boot] [PATCH] dm: gpio: pca953x: introduce driver model support for pca953x

Michal Simek michal.simek at xilinx.com
Thu Apr 14 08:24:19 CEST 2016


On 13.4.2016 08:04, Michal Simek wrote:
> On 13.4.2016 07:50, Peng Fan wrote:
>> Hi Michal,
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 07:17:55AM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
>>> On 12.4.2016 03:25, Peng Fan wrote:
>>>> Hi Michal,
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 02:40:06PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
>>>>> On 11.4.2016 14:09, Michal Simek wrote:
>>>>>> On 11.4.2016 07:47, Peng Fan wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 12:33:34PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 18 March 2016 at 03:54, Peng Fan <van.freenix at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Introduce a new driver that supports driver model for pca953x.
>>>>>>>>> The pca953x chips are used as I2C I/O expanders.
>>>>>>>>> This driver is designed to support the following chips:
>>>>>>>>> "
>>>>>>>>> 4 bits: pca9536, pca9537
>>>>>>>>> 8 bits: max7310, max7315, pca6107, pca9534, pca9538, pca9554,
>>>>>>>>>         pca9556, pca9557, pca9574, tca6408, xra1202
>>>>>>>>> 16 bits: max7312, max7313, pca9535, pca9539, pca9555, pca9575,
>>>>>>>>>          tca6416
>>>>>>>>> 24 bits: tca6424
>>>>>>>>> 40 bits: pca9505, pca9698
>>>>>>>>> "
>>>>>>>>> But for now this driver only supports max 24 bits and pca953x compatible
>>>>>>>>> chips. pca957x compatible chips are not supported now.
>>>>>>>>> These can be addressed when we need to add such support for the different
>>>>>>>>> chips.
>>>>>>>>> This driver has been tested on i.MX6 SoloX Sabreauto board with max7310
>>>>>>>>> i2c expander using gpio command as following:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> =>gpio status -a
>>>>>>>>> Bank gpio at 48:
>>>>>>>>> gpio at 480: input: 1 [ ]
>>>>>>>>> => gpio clear gpio at 480
>>>>>>>>> gpio: pin gpio at 480 (gpio 224) value is 0
>>>>>>>>> => gpio status -a
>>>>>>>>> Bank gpio at 48:
>>>>>>>>> gpio at 480: output: 0 [ ]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Don't you think 480 is confusing? Perhaps you should have gpio at 48_ as
>>>>>>>> the bank name? Also I think you should support a gpio-bank-name
>>>>>>>> property in the node, to allow a sensible name to be provided.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 480 is added by gpio uclass driver I think.
>>>>>>> The dts is copied from Linux side. I'd not change the dts, will try to
>>>>>>> see how to introudce a sensible name here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's the binding you are using?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The part of this patch should be DT binding.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is my node.
>>>>>> 	tca6416_u61: gpio at 21 {
>>>>>> 		compatible = "ti,tca6416";
>>>>>> 		reg = <0x21>;
>>>>>> 		gpio-controller;
>>>>>> 		#gpio-cells = <2>;
>>>>>> 	};
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok. I found where the problem is.
>>>>>
>>>>> i2c bus has
>>>>> #address-cells = <1>;
>>>>> #size-cells = <0>;
>>>>>
>>>>> And then OF_CHECK_COUNTS thinks that it is incorrect setting for bus
>>>>> but it should be valid for i2c where only address without size is used.
>>>>> When I apply patch below driver is probed
>>>>
>>>> I did not met this issue.
>>>
>>> That's interesting. Can you please add
>>>
>>> Can you please apply this and look at na and ns values?
>>> If you are on imx6q then you should reach the same problem as I if this
>>> code is called that's why I would like to confirm this.
>>>
>>> diff --git a/common/fdt_support.c b/common/fdt_support.c
>>> index ced119e70d9f..9c18b312d647 100644
>>> --- a/common/fdt_support.c
>>> +++ b/common/fdt_support.c
>>> @@ -1109,6 +1109,7 @@ static u64 __of_translate_address(void *blob, int
>>> node_offset, const fdt32_t *in
>>>
>>>        /* Cound address cells & copy address locally */
>>>        bus->count_cells(blob, parent, &na, &ns);
>>> +       printf("addr cells %d, size cells %d\n", na, ns);
>>>        if (!OF_CHECK_COUNTS(na, ns)) {
>>>                printf("%s: Bad cell count for %s\n", __FUNCTION__,
>>>                       fdt_get_name(blob, node_offset, NULL));
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/common/fdt_support.c b/common/fdt_support.c
>>>>> index ced119e70d9f..5f5b49c6210b 100644
>>>>> --- a/common/fdt_support.c
>>>>> +++ b/common/fdt_support.c
>>>>> @@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ void fdt_del_node_and_alias(void *blob, const char
>>>>> *alias)
>>>>> #define OF_MAX_ADDR_CELLS      4
>>>>> #define OF_BAD_ADDR    FDT_ADDR_T_NONE
>>>>> #define OF_CHECK_COUNTS(na, ns)        ((na) > 0 && (na) <=
>>>>> OF_MAX_ADDR_CELLS && \
>>>>> -                       (ns) > 0)
>>>>> +                       (ns) >= 0)
>>
>> You are correct.
>>
>> I have no idea why I first test my patch, I did not met the issue as you.
>> After applying your patch as above, gpio status -a can correctly detect
>> max7310.
>>
>> The dts I used is for mx6sxsabreauto board, not in U-Boot now.
> 
> good. Do you want me to create this patch or do you want to create it
> and add it as 1/2 before this one?
> 

I have sent a patch for it and you are in CC.

Thanks,
Michal



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