On Friday, August 07, 2015 at 10:37:54 PM, Simon Glass wrote: > Hi Marek,
Hi Simon, > On 7 August 2015 at 14:35, Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> wrote: > > On Friday, August 07, 2015 at 09:13:45 PM, Simon Glass wrote: > >> Hi Marek, > > > > Hi! > > > >> On 5 August 2015 at 19:49, Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> wrote: > >> > On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 at 04:39:33 PM, Simon Glass wrote: > >> >> Hi Marek, > >> > > >> > Hi Simon, > > > > [...] > > > >> >> It's up to you. Normally each bank has a name and the datasheet > >> >> specifies it. In your case if not you could think about a naming > >> >> scheme. > >> > > >> > Can you please take a look into arch/arm/dts/socfpga.dtsi ? > >> > The system has three GPIO controllers (look for gpio0, gpio1, gpio2) > >> > and each of these controllers has one bank (porta, portb, portc) . > >> > > >> > I can name my gpios portxN , where x is either of a,b,c and N is the > >> > GPIO number. The problem is, I cannot determine in dwapb_gpio_bind() > >> > which one is "porta", "portb" and "portc" because all I have is the > >> > physical addess of the GPIO controller and the index of the bank in > >> > the namespace of that controller. > >> > > >> > Sure, I can do some sort of global counting in the driver, but I would > >> > like to avoid that sort of thing. I can also add some kind of ad-hoc > >> > DT prop, but that's also not a good idea I think. Do you have any > >> > suggestion for me please ? > >> > >> One option is to use the device tree node name but it isn't very > >> friendly - gpio0@xxxxx. > > > > That's what I do now pretty much. > > > >> You could perhaps add a new property like 'bank-name'? > > > > Do we want to add ad-hoc DT nodes which are > > a) Not describing hardware > > b) Not part of the official DT bindings for that platform > > ? > > > > Is that really a way to go ? > > > > [...] > > It needs to be part of the official binding. Naming the hardware is > part of the hardware definition - see for example the regulator-name > property for regulators. So what do you think about introducing a 'bank-name' property then ? I think this might work just fine ? > Another option is to use an alias: > > aliases { > gpio0 = &gpio_0; > gpio1 = &gpio_1; > gpio2 = &gpio_2; > } > > Then you can turn gpio0 into bank A, gpio1 into bank B, etc. Is there a function which maps the udevice->dev->of_offset into an alias's seq ID ? Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot