1.\" Copyright (c) 2013, Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org> 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd November 5, 2013 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 45architecure 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 61architecure 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 70architecure include: 71.Bd -ragged -offset indent 72.Cd "device wiigpio" 73.Cd "device macgpio" 74.Ed 75.Sh DESCRIPTION 76The 77.Em gpiobus 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 architechtures (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 kernel at boot. 105.Pp 106The following are only provided by the 107.Cd ar71xx_gpio 108driver. 109.Bl -tag -width ".Va hint.gpioiic.%d.atXXX" 110.It Va hint.gpio.%d.pinmask 111This is a bitmask of pins on the gpio board that we would like to expose 112for use to the host o/s. 113To expose pin 0, 4 and 7, use the bitmask of 11410010001 converted to the hexadecimal value 0x0091. 115.It Va hint.gpio.%d.pinon 116This is a bitmask of pins on the gpio board that will be set to ON at host 117start. 118To set pin 2, 5 and 13 to be set ON at boot, use the bitmask of 11910000000010010 converted to the hexadecimal value 0x2012. 120.It Va hint.gpio.function_set 121.It Va hint.gpio.function_clear 122These are a bitmask of pins that will remap a pin to handle a specific 123function (USB, UART TX/RX, etc) in the Atheros function registers. 124This is mainly used to set/clear functions that we need when they are setup or 125not setup by uBoot. 126.El 127.Pp 128Simply put, each pin of the GPIO interface is connected to an input/output 129of some device in a system. 130.Sh SEE ALSO 131.Xr gpioiic 4 , 132.Xr gpioled 4 , 133.Xr iicbus 4 , 134.Xr gpioctl 8 135.Sh HISTORY 136The 137.Nm 138manual page first appeared in 139.Fx 10.0 . 140.Sh AUTHORS 141This 142manual page was written by 143.An Sean Bruno Aq sbruno@FreeBSD.org . 144