Re: [PATCH 2/5] drivers: gpio: Add support for multiple IPs

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On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Grygorii Strashko
<grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/04/2016 09:28 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:

>> The DT model sort of mandates how the interrupts should be mapped
>> at this point, and as far as I can tell from the binding the example looks
>> like so:
>>
>> gpio: gpio@1e26000 {
>>         compatible = "ti,dm6441-gpio";
>>         gpio-controller;
>>         #gpio-cells = <2>;
>>         reg = <0x226000 0x1000>;
>>         interrupt-parent = <&intc>;
>>         interrupts = <42 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH 43 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH
>>                 44 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH 45 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH
>>                 46 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH 47 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH
>>                 48 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH 49 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH
>>                 50 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH>;
>>         ti,ngpio = <144>;
>>         ti,davinci-gpio-unbanked = <0>;
>>         interrupt-controller;
>>         #interrupt-cells = <2>;
>> };
>
> Above, DT bindings models Davinci GPIO IP as monolithic GPIO controller
> with N gpio pins, but internally separate GPIO chips are created for each
> banksX&Y register set (32 pins, 2 banked irq -or- 32 direct irqs).

Hm it would be good to get away from that and just have one big gpio
chip.

> Translation from linear GPIO numbering to the proper internal GPIO chip is done
> using chip.of_xlate().

Yeah :/ this could be made simpler with a single chip just spanning all
the banks and the common registers I think.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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