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27.Dd June 27, 2019
28.Dt GPIO 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm gpiobus
32.Nd GPIO bus system
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34To compile these devices into your kernel and use the device hints, place the
35following lines in your kernel configuration file:
36.Bd -ragged -offset indent
37.Cd "device gpio"
38.Cd "device gpioc"
39.Cd "device gpioiic"
40.Cd "device gpioled"
41.Ed
42.Pp
43Additional device entries for the
44.Li ARM
45architecture include:
46.Bd -ragged -offset indent
47.Cd "device a10_gpio"
48.Cd "device bcm_gpio"
49.Cd "device imx51_gpio"
50.Cd "device lpcgpio"
51.Cd "device mv_gpio"
52.Cd "device ti_gpio"
53.Cd "device gpio_avila"
54.Cd "device gpio_cambria"
55.Cd "device zy7_gpio"
56.Cd "device pxagpio"
57.Ed
58.Pp
59Additional device entries for the
60.Li MIPS
61architecture include:
62.Bd -ragged -offset indent
63.Cd "device ar71xxx_gpio"
64.Cd "device octeon_gpio"
65.Cd "device rt305_gpio"
66.Ed
67.Pp
68Additional device entries for the
69.Li POWERPC
70architecture include:
71.Bd -ragged -offset indent
72.Cd "device wiigpio"
73.Cd "device macgpio"
74.Ed
75.Pp
76Additional device entries for the
77.Li RISC-V
78architecture include:
79.Bd -ragged -offset indent
80.Cd "device sifive_gpio"
81.Ed
82.Sh DESCRIPTION
83The
84.Nm
85system provides a simple interface to the GPIO pins that are usually
86available on embedded architectures and can provide bit banging style
87devices to the system.
88.Pp
89The acronym
90.Li GPIO
91means
92.Dq General-Purpose Input/Output.
93.Pp
94The BUS physically consists of multiple pins that can be configured
95for input/output, IRQ delivery, SDA/SCL
96.Em iicbus
97use, etc.
98.Pp
99On some embedded architectures (like MIPS), discovery of the bus and
100configuration of the pins is done via
101.Xr device.hints 5
102in the platform's kernel
103.Xr config 5
104file.
105.Pp
106On some others (like ARM), where
107.Xr FDT 4
108is used to describe the device tree, the bus discovery is done via the DTS
109passed to the kernel, being either statically compiled in, or by a variety
110of ways where the boot loader (or Open Firmware enabled system) passes the
111DTS blob to the kernel at boot.
112.Pp
113On a
114.Xr device.hints 5
115based system these hints can be used to configure drivers for devices
116attached to
117.Nm
118pins:
119.Bl -tag -width ".Va hint.driver.unit.pin_list"
120.It Va hint.driver.unit.at
121The
122.Nm gpiobus
123where the device is attached.
124For example,
125.Qq gpiobus0 .
126.Ar driver
127and
128.Ar unit
129are the driver name and the unit number for the device driver.
130.It Va hint.driver.unit.pins
131This is a bitmask of the pins on the
132.Nm gpiobus
133that are connected to the device.
134The pins will be allocated to the specified driver instance.
135Only pins with numbers from 0 to 31 can be specified using this hint.
136.It Va hint.driver.unit.pin_list
137This is a list of pin numbers of pins on the
138.Nm gpiobus
139that are connected to the device.
140The pins will be allocated to the specified driver instance.
141This is a more user friendly alternative to the
142.Ar pins
143hint.
144Additionally, this hint allows specifying pin numbers greater than 31.
145The numbers can be decimal or hexadecimal with 0x prefix.
146Any non-digit character can be used as a separator.
147For example, it can be a comma, a slash or a space.
148The separator can be followed by any number of space characters.
149.El
150.Pp
151The following
152.Xr device.hints 5
153are only provided by the
154.Cd ar71xx_gpio
155driver:
156.Bl -tag -width ".Va hint.gpio.function_clear"
157.It Va hint.gpio.%d.pinmask
158This is a bitmask of pins on the GPIO board that we would like to expose
159for use to the host operating system.
160To expose pin 0, 4 and 7, use the bitmask of
16110010001 converted to the hexadecimal value 0x0091.
162.It Va hint.gpio.%d.pinon
163This is a bitmask of pins on the GPIO board that will be set to ON at host
164start.
165To set pin 2, 5 and 13 to be set ON at boot, use the bitmask of
16610000000010010 converted to the hexadecimal value 0x2012.
167.It Va hint.gpio.function_set
168.It Va hint.gpio.function_clear
169These are bitmasks of pins that will remap a pin to handle a specific
170function (USB, UART TX/RX, etc) in the Atheros function registers.
171This is mainly used to set/clear functions that we need when they are set up or
172not set up by uBoot.
173.El
174.Pp
175Simply put, each pin of the GPIO interface is connected to an input/output
176of some device in a system.
177.Sh SEE ALSO
178.Xr gpioiic 4 ,
179.Xr gpioled 4 ,
180.Xr iicbus 4 ,
181.Xr device.hints 5 ,
182.Xr gpioctl 8
183.Sh HISTORY
184The
185.Nm
186manual page first appeared in
187.Fx 10.0 .
188.Sh AUTHORS
189This
190manual page was written by
191.An Sean Bruno Aq Mt sbruno@FreeBSD.org .
192