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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.Sh DESCRIPTION
76The
77.Nm
78system provides a simple interface to the GPIO pins that are usually
79available on embedded architectures and can provide bit banging style
80devices to the system.
81.Pp
82The acronym
83.Li GPIO
84means
85.Dq General-Purpose Input/Output.
86.Pp
87The BUS physically consists of multiple pins that can be configured
88for input/output, IRQ delivery, SDA/SCL
89.Em iicbus
90use, etc.
91.Pp
92On some embedded architectures (like MIPS), discovery of the bus and
93configuration of the pins is done via
94.Xr device.hints 5
95in the platform's kernel
96.Xr config 5
97file.
98.Pp
99On some others (like ARM), where
100.Xr FDT 4
101is used to describe the device tree, the bus discovery is done via the DTS
102passed to the kernel, being either statically compiled in, or by a variety
103of ways where the boot loader (or Open Firmware enabled system) passes the
104DTS blob to the kernel at boot.
105.Pp
106On a
107.Xr device.hints 5
108based system these hints can be used to configure drivers for devices
109attached to
110.Nm
111pins:
112.Bl -tag -width ".Va hint.driver.unit.pin_list"
113.It Va hint.driver.unit.at
114The
115.Nm gpiobus
116where the device is attached.
117For example,
118.Qq gpiobus0 .
119.Ar driver
120and
121.Ar unit
122are the driver name and the unit number for the device driver.
123.It Va hint.driver.unit.pins
124This is a bitmask of the pins on the
125.Nm gpiobus
126that are connected to the device.
127The pins will be allocated to the specified driver instance.
128Only pins with numbers from 0 to 31 can be specified using this hint.
129.It Va hint.driver.unit.pin_list
130This is a list of pin numbers of pins on the
131.Nm gpiobus
132that are connected to the device.
133The pins will be allocated to the specified driver instance.
134This is a more user friendly alternative to the
135.Ar pins
136hint.
137Additionally, this hint allows specifying pin numbers greater than 31.
138The numbers can be decimal or hexadecimal with 0x prefix.
139Any non-digit character can be used as a separator.
140For example, it can be a comma, a slash or a space.
141The separator can be followed by any number of space characters.
142.El
143.Pp
144The following
145.Xr device.hints 5
146are only provided by the
147.Cd ar71xx_gpio
148driver:
149.Bl -tag -width ".Va hint.gpio.function_clear"
150.It Va hint.gpio.%d.pinmask
151This is a bitmask of pins on the GPIO board that we would like to expose
152for use to the host operating system.
153To expose pin 0, 4 and 7, use the bitmask of
15410010001 converted to the hexadecimal value 0x0091.
155.It Va hint.gpio.%d.pinon
156This is a bitmask of pins on the GPIO board that will be set to ON at host
157start.
158To set pin 2, 5 and 13 to be set ON at boot, use the bitmask of
15910000000010010 converted to the hexadecimal value 0x2012.
160.It Va hint.gpio.function_set
161.It Va hint.gpio.function_clear
162These are bitmasks of pins that will remap a pin to handle a specific
163function (USB, UART TX/RX, etc) in the Atheros function registers.
164This is mainly used to set/clear functions that we need when they are set up or
165not set up by uBoot.
166.El
167.Pp
168Simply put, each pin of the GPIO interface is connected to an input/output
169of some device in a system.
170.Sh SEE ALSO
171.Xr gpioiic 4 ,
172.Xr gpioled 4 ,
173.Xr iicbus 4 ,
174.Xr device.hints 5 ,
175.Xr gpioctl 8
176.Sh HISTORY
177The
178.Nm
179manual page first appeared in
180.Fx 10.0 .
181.Sh AUTHORS
182This
183manual page was written by
184.An Sean Bruno Aq Mt sbruno@FreeBSD.org .
185