Hi Uwe,
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> +Peter
>
> On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 16:02 +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that with v4.8-rc1 serial console of some of our Broxton
>> systems does not work properly anymore. I'm able to see output but
>> input
>> does not work.
>>
>> I bisected it down to commit 4ef03d328769eddbfeca1f1c958fdb181a69c341
>> ("tty/serial/8250: use mctrl_gpio helpers").
>
> Mika, thanks for the detailed analysis.
> Yegor, consider this mail as a follow up to [1].
>
> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg23071.html
Do you have any idea on how to fix this issue?
>> The reason why it fails is that in ACPI we do not have names for GPIOs
>> (except when _DSD is used) so we use the "idx" to index into _CRS GPIO
>> resources. Now mctrl_gpio_init_noauto() goes through a list of GPIOs
>> calling devm_gpiod_get_index_optional() passing "idx" of 0 for each.
>> The
>> UART device in Broxton has following (simplified) ACPI description:
>>
>> Device (URT4)
>> {
>> ...
>> Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate () {
>> GpioIo (Exclusive, PullDefault, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>> IoRestrictionOutputOnly,
>> "\\_SB.GPO0", 0x00, ResourceConsumer)
>> {
>> 0x003A
>> }
>> GpioIo (Exclusive, PullDefault, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>> IoRestrictionOutputOnly,
>> "\\_SB.GPO0", 0x00, ResourceConsumer)
>> {
>> 0x003D
>> }
>> })
>>
>> In this case it finds the first GPIO (0x003A which happens to be RX
>> pin
>> for that UART), turns it into GPIO which then breaks input for the
>> UART
>> device. This also breaks systems with bluetooth connected to UART
>> (those
>> typically have some GPIOs in their _CRS).
>>
>> Any ideas how to fix this?
>>
>> We cannot just drop the _CRS index lookup fallback because that would
>> break many existing machines out there so maybe we can limit this to
>> only DT enabled machines. Or alternatively probe if the property first
>> exists before trying to acquire the GPIOs (using
>> device_property_present()).
>
> --
> Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com>
> Intel Finland Oy
