On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Julien De Bona
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I found that commit 2539387611b8b15bb2367275df9bfd3e29dc2a0e in December
> 2010 broke the Gdium's GPIOs by doing this:
> - set ARCH_NR_GPIOS to 4, which can fit the Loongson 2f's 4 GPIOs but not
> the 64 GPIOs from the SM501 (the driver expects ARCH_NR_GPIOS==256)
> - register ARCH_NR_GPIOS ls2f GPIOs, which allocates all potential GPIOs to
> ls2f and leaves no room for the SM501 GPIOs.
>
> As many things are connected to the GPIOs on the Gdium, this broke many
> things.
>
> I attached a patch fixing this problem.  It sets ARCH_NR_GPIOS back to 256
> for Gdium and lets the ls2f driver only register the 4 GPIOs of the CPU.
> It's a patch against an old head (Linux 3.2), but I don't think current code
> has changed a lot.  I hope to work on an up-to-date head once my netbook
> works  At least I hope it can be useful for someone.
>
> Regards
> --
> Julien De Bona - [email protected]

Patches should go to Ralf and linux-mips@. Not here.

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