[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 14/17] dm: Add GPIO support and tests

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Nov 22 18:37:18 CET 2013


Hi Mateusz,


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Mateusz Zalega <m.zalega at samsung.com>wrote:

> On 11/07/13 17:32, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Add driver model support for GPIOs. (...)
>
> Just a thought - what's keeping us from implementing 1:1 GPIO devicetree
> mapping with Linux?
>

Nothing, it is fully compatible with that.

The only complication is the complexity of the code and bindings, involving
pinmux also. This might mean that we need a simpler setup for SPL. But I
think at some point it becomes easier to use the full bindings than
maintain something separate.

Regards,
Simon


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