> > I think there will be a day when a switch without LED controller appears, > > but the system has a few LEDs for the ports connected to an > > arbitrary GPIO controller, and then we will need this. But we have > > not seen that yet :) > > The microchip sparx5 might be going in that direction. It has what > looks like a reasonably generic sgpio controller: > drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-microchip-sgpio.c That gpio controller supports both, some kind of hardware controlled and pure software controlled mode. AFAIK the driver only supports software controlled mode (yet?). In any case, our board (arch/arm/boot/dts/lan966x-kontron-kswitch-d10-mmt.dtsi) is broken in a way that we are forced to use the software controlled mode anyway. Therefore, there is already such a board ;) -michael
