On 24.04.19 12:33, Mika Westerberg wrote:
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 12:19:02PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
I think what you want is "GPIO signaled ACPI event". It works so that
you declare _AEI method below the GPIO controller listing the GPIOs you
want to trigger events for and then either _Lxx, _Exx or _EVT method for
each of them under the same controller. GPIO core then handles it
automatically when you register the GPIO chip. See also
acpi_gpiochip_request_interrupts().
Right, that is was I read as well. Let's assume I would be able to patch the
tables: Would I describe all the logic of this patch in ACPI terms? Where to
enable interrupts, how to dispatch the SCI event, how to acknowledge it
etc.? Will it also take care of locking? (BTW, my locking seems to have some
remaining inconsistency, on second look.)
The GPIO core would then take care of it by requesting the GPIO in
question and dispatching to the correct event handler. In this patch you
just leave out the SCI part and only implement the irqchip like you did
already.
Could you point me to a gpio driver that works like that already? Would be
easier to learn that from an example. That infrastructure with all its different
modes is seriously complex and not very well documented.
And even if that were possible, we would be back to the square of existing
devices without those definitions. If this were a recent chipset, I would
say, "go, fix future firmware versions". But this one is legacy.
Is it fixing some real issue with these legacy platforms? I mean without
the patch some GPE event is not handled properly? It was not clear to me
from the commit message.
Without that patch, you are forced to poll for event changes in your
application, timer-driven. There are application that cannot process these GPIOs
because they lack such logic (mraa with node-red-node-intel-gpio is a public
example).
Jan
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