Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Sometimes it is necessary to combine several gpio pins into an ad-hoc bus
and manipulate the pins as a group. In such cases manipulating the pins
individualy is not an option, because the value on the "bus" assumes
potentially-invalid intermediate values as each pin is changed in turn. Note
that the "bus" may be something as simple as a bi-color LED where changing
colors requires changing both gpio pins at once, or something as complex as
a bitbanged multiplexed address/data bus connected to a microcontroller.
In addition to the absolute requirement of simultaneously changing the
output values of driven pins, a desirable feature of these new methods is to
provide a higher-performance mechanism for reading and writing multiple
pins, especially from userland where pin-at-a-time access incurs a noticible
syscall time penalty.
These new interfaces are NOT intended to abstract away all the ugly details
of how gpio is implemented on any given platform. In fact, to use these
properly you absolutely must know something about how the gpio hardware is
organized. Typically there are "banks" of gpio pins controlled by registers
which group several pins together. A bank may be as small as 2 pins or as
big as "all the pins on the device, hundreds of them." In the latter case, a
driver might support this interface by allowing access to any 32 adjacent
pins within the overall collection. Or, more likely, any 32 adjacent pins
starting at any multiple of 32. Whatever the hardware restrictions may be,
you would need to understand them to use this interface.
In additional to defining the interfaces, two example implementations are
included here, for imx5/6, and allwinner. These represent the two primary
types of gpio hardware drivers. imx6 has multiple gpio devices, each
implementing a single bank of 32 pins. Allwinner implements a single large
gpio number space from 1-n pins, and the driver internally translates that
linear number space to a bank+pin scheme based on how the pins are grouped
into control registers. The allwinner implementation imposes the restriction
that the first_pin argument to the new functions must always be pin 0 of a
bank.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11810
When a gpiobus child is added, use its name to identify the mapped pin
names.
Make the respective changes to libgpio.
Add a new '-n' flag to gpioctl(8) to set the pin name.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2002
Reviewed by: rpaulo
Requested by: many
It seems the D_PSEUDO flag was meant to allow make_dev() to return NULL.
Nowadays we have a different interface for that; make_dev_p(). There's
no need to keep it there.
While there, remove an unneeded D_NEEDMINOR from the gpio driver.
Discussed with: gonzo@ (gpio)
The external gpio pins are connected to a PLD on the i2c bus, unfortunatley
this device does not conform by failing to send an ack after each byte written.
The iicbb driver will abort the transfer when the address is not ack'd and it
would introduce a lot of churn to be able to pass a flag down to
iicbb_start/iicbb_write. Instead we do bad things by grabbing the iicbus but
then doing our own bit banging.
- license clause now contains "AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS"
instead of just "AUTHOR"
- Add license/copyright to gpioc.c
Spotted by: Edward Tomasz Napierala, Andrew Turner
- GPIO bus controller interface
- GPIO bus interface
- Implementation of GPIO led(4) compatible device
- Implementation of iic(4) bus over GPIO (author: Luiz Otavio O Souza)
Tested by: Luiz Otavio O Souza, Alexandr Rybalko
