Re: [PATCH] mips: gpio: mscc_sgpio: Add DT bindings documentation

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On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 3:43 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Lars,
>
> thanks for your patch!
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 1:22 PM Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > +MSCC Serial GPIO driver
>
> Expand the acronym please, if IIUC this is
> "Microsemi Corporation (MSCC) Serial GPIO driver"
>
> > +- mscc,sgpio-frequency: The frequency at which the serial bitstream is
> > +  generated and sampled. Default: 12500000 (Hz).
>
> Uhm what is a serial bitstream in this context, I am lost.
> Please elaborate.

Is this SGPIO as in this[1]? If so, then I don't think using the GPIO
binding is appropriate here. SGPIO is pretty fixed use. There is a
bitbanged SGPIO implementation in the Calxeda SATA driver BTW.

Rob

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGPIO



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