Hi, This set of patches introduces a new pinctrl driver for the Ingenic JZ4740 and JZ4780, which handles pin configuration, pin muxing and GPIO config for those MIPS SoCs. The initial driver was developed by to Paul Burton, so I'll expect his Signed-Off-By to be added to each patch. It has been severely modified and improved by myself, notably to add support for the JZ4740 (the initial non-upstream driver only handled the JZ4780). I successfully tested it on Imagination Technologies' CI20 board (JZ4780), as well as on the Dingoo A320 chinese handheld console (JZ4740). One patch in this series add a pinctrl configuration for some drivers instanciated in the QI LB60 devicetree. Since I don't own this device, this one patch was not tested. Some words about the driver itself: - pinctrl-ingenic.c contains the core functions that can be shared across all Ingenic SoCs, - pinctrl-jz4740.c contains the JZ4740-specific low-level functions and the jz4740-pinctrl driver, - pinctrl-jz4780.c contains the JZ4780-specific low-level functions and the jz4780-pinctrl driver. The reason behind using a common file sharing core functions and backend ops for each SoC version, is that the pin/GPIO controllers of the Ingenic SoCs are extremely similar across SoC versions, except that some have the registers shuffled around. Making a distinct separation permits the reuse of large parts of the driver to support the two SoC versions. One problem still unresolved: the pinctrl framework does not allow us to configure each pin on demand (someone please prove me wrong), when the various PWM channels are requested or released. For instance, the PWM channels can be configured from sysfs, which would require all PWM pins to be configured properly beforehand for the PWM function, eventually causing conflicts with other platform or board drivers. The proper solution here would be to modify the pwm-jz4740 driver to handle only one PWM channel, and create an instance of this driver for each one of the 8 PWM channels. Then, it could use the pinctrl framework to dynamically configure the PWM pin it controls. Until this can be done, the only jz4740 board supported upstream (Qi lb60) could configure all of its connected PWM pins in PWM function mode, if those are not used by other drivers nor by GPIOs on the board. The only jz4780 board upstream (CI20) does not yet support the PWM driver. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
