Re: [PATCH 3/3] devicetree: bindings: pinctrl: Add bindings doc for Sunplus SP7021.

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Dear Linus!

I am the person who wrote this driver. Let me answer to your questions...

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] devicetree: bindings: pinctrl: Add bindings doc for
Sunplus SP7021.


+        zero_func:
+          description: |
+            Disabled pins which are not used by pinctrl node's client
device.
+          $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32-array
I have never seen this before. Can't you just use pin control hogs for this so the
pin controller just take care of these pins?

zero_func is required.

The bootloader may have different device tree (I am using general sp7021 DTS in my u-boot setup, for example), while the kernel DTS may be changed between boots and specifies it more precisely - it is configured by user. So u-boot DTB and kernel DTB may be different -> result is that some pins may be muxed wrongly after u-boot starts kernel. Or even in pre-u-boot stage (we have the bootloader that starts u-boot, called XBoot). This XBoot also do some muxing. So we need this feature to get rid of possible unneded muxes done before kernel has been started.

There is the "group of pins" functions and individual pins that may intersect.

You may have "group of pins", say, emmc preconfigured before kernel started (in general DTS for u-boot) and you may want to have the pin from emmc group to be muxed as, say, SD card detect. You mux it in kernel DTS as GPIO, it will be in correct GPIO state, configured correctly, but while emmc group is enabled (nobody disabled it in kernel DTS!) the pin will belong to emmc function (preset group) and will not be functional.

I invented zero_func while has been debugging the problem like "why my Eth is not working when all pins are configured correctly and muxed to Eth". I spend some time to find that the pin I muxed to Eth has been muxed to SPI_FLASH GROUP in very early stage (in ROM boot). And I have no way to cleanup this mux group easily.

zero_func is the way to easily guarantee that you will successfully and correctly mux some pins / functions on kernel load even if somebody muxed other pins to this functions before kernel.

If I'd implement "automatic" mux cleanup before muxing some pin, the code would be more complex. I would like to keep code as simple as I can and give better control to user.



+      allOf:
+        - if:
+            properties:
+              function:
+                enum:
+                  - SPI_FLASH
+          then:
+            properties:
+              groups:
+                enum:
+                  - SPI_FLASH1
+                  - SPI_FLASH2
+        - if:
+            properties:
+              function:
+                enum:
+                  - SPI_FLASH_4BIT
+          then:
+            properties:
+              groups:
+                enum:
+                  - SPI_FLASH_4BIT1
+                  - SPI_FLASH_4BIT2
+        - if:
+            properties:
+              function:
+                enum:
+                  - HDMI_TX
+          then:
+            properties:
+              groups:
+                enum:
+                  - HDMI_TX1
+                  - HDMI_TX2
+                  - HDMI_TX3
+        - if:
+            properties:
+              function:
+                enum:
+                  - LCDIF
+          then:
+            properties:
+              groups:
+                enum:
+                  - LCDIF

This looks complex to me, I need feedback from bindings people on this.

sp7021 supports two types of muxes:

1) group muxing (1-N sets of predefined pins for some function)

2) individual pin muxing

Some functions may be muxed only in group, like SPI_FLASH or HDMI.

That's why we have

pins = <...>;

and

function = <funcname>;

group = <funcsubname-group>;

second case could be cuted to

function = <funcsubname-group> only;

But I think, the syntax of a pair {function,group} fits SoC logic better. Especially if customer is reading possible muxes table for the chip.



+        pins_uart0: pins_uart0 {
+            function = "UA0";
+            groups = "UA0";
+        };
+
+        pins_uart1: pins_uart1 {
+            pins = <
+
SPPCTL_IOPAD(11,SPPCTL_PCTL_G_PMUX,MUXF_UA1_TX,0)
+
SPPCTL_IOPAD(10,SPPCTL_PCTL_G_PMUX,MUXF_UA1_RX,0)
+
SPPCTL_IOPAD(7,SPPCTL_PCTL_G_GPIO,0,SPPCTL_PCTL_L_OUT)
+            >;
+        };
This first looks like two ways to do the same thing?
UART0 uses strings for group + function and uart1 control individual pins.

Is it possible to just do it one way?

I think the pins = <...> scheme includes also multiplexing settings and then it
should be named pinmux = <...>:
No. Sorry. It is two different way of supported two different types of muxing, described above.

Please read
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/pinmux-node.yaml
closely.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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