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27.Dd June 26, 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.pins"
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.
128.El
129.Pp
130The following
131.Xr device.hints 5
132are only provided by the
133.Cd ar71xx_gpio
134driver:
135.Bl -tag -width ".Va hint.gpio.function_clear"
136.It Va hint.gpio.%d.pinmask
137This is a bitmask of pins on the GPIO board that we would like to expose
138for use to the host operating system.
139To expose pin 0, 4 and 7, use the bitmask of
14010010001 converted to the hexadecimal value 0x0091.
141.It Va hint.gpio.%d.pinon
142This is a bitmask of pins on the GPIO board that will be set to ON at host
143start.
144To set pin 2, 5 and 13 to be set ON at boot, use the bitmask of
14510000000010010 converted to the hexadecimal value 0x2012.
146.It Va hint.gpio.function_set
147.It Va hint.gpio.function_clear
148These are bitmasks of pins that will remap a pin to handle a specific
149function (USB, UART TX/RX, etc) in the Atheros function registers.
150This is mainly used to set/clear functions that we need when they are set up or
151not set up by uBoot.
152.El
153.Pp
154Simply put, each pin of the GPIO interface is connected to an input/output
155of some device in a system.
156.Sh SEE ALSO
157.Xr gpioiic 4 ,
158.Xr gpioled 4 ,
159.Xr iicbus 4 ,
160.Xr device.hints 5 ,
161.Xr gpioctl 8
162.Sh HISTORY
163The
164.Nm
165manual page first appeared in
166.Fx 10.0 .
167.Sh AUTHORS
168This
169manual page was written by
170.An Sean Bruno Aq Mt sbruno@FreeBSD.org .
171