[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 01/41] pinctrl: Add help text to Kconfig
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Mon Aug 31 00:55:12 CEST 2015
The pinctrl Kconfig options should have help messages. Add this to a few
options.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
Changes in v5:
- Merge with Masahiro's v5 patch
Changes in v4: None
Changes in v3: None
Changes in v2: None
drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig b/drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig
index 30b8e45..918a859 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig
@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ config PINMUX
default y
help
This option enables pin multiplexing through the generic pinctrl
- framework.
+ framework. Most SoCs have their own own multiplexing arrangement
+ where a single pin can be used for several functions. An SoC pinctrl
+ driver allows the required function to be selected for each pin.
+ The driver is typically controlled by the device tree.
config PINCONF
bool "Support pin configuration controllers"
@@ -86,6 +89,12 @@ config SPL_PINMUX
help
This option is an SPL-variant of the PINMUX option.
See the help of PINMUX for details.
+ The pinctrl subsystem can add a substantial overhead to the SPL
+ image since it typically requires quite a few tables either in the
+ driver or in the device tree. If this is acceptable and you need
+ to adjust pin multiplexing in SPL in order to boot into U-Boot,
+ enable this option. You will need to enable device tree in SPL
+ for this to work.
config SPL_PINCONF
bool "Support pin configuration controllers in SPL"
--
2.5.0.457.gab17608
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