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4_DSD Device Properties Related to GPIO
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6
7With the release of ACPI 5.1, the _DSD configuration object finally
8allows names to be given to GPIOs (and other things as well) returned
9by _CRS.  Previously, we were only able to use an integer index to find
10the corresponding GPIO, which is pretty error prone (it depends on
11the _CRS output ordering, for example).
12
13With _DSD we can now query GPIOs using a name instead of an integer
14index, like the ASL example below shows::
15
16  // Bluetooth device with reset and shutdown GPIOs
17  Device (BTH)
18  {
19      Name (_HID, ...)
20
21      Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate ()
22      {
23          GpioIo (Exclusive, PullUp, 0, 0, IoRestrictionOutputOnly,
24                  "\\_SB.GPO0", 0, ResourceConsumer) {15}
25          GpioIo (Exclusive, PullUp, 0, 0, IoRestrictionOutputOnly,
26                  "\\_SB.GPO0", 0, ResourceConsumer) {27, 31}
27      })
28
29      Name (_DSD, Package ()
30      {
31          ToUUID("daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301"),
32          Package ()
33	  {
34              Package () {"reset-gpios", Package() {^BTH, 1, 1, 0 }},
35              Package () {"shutdown-gpios", Package() {^BTH, 0, 0, 0 }},
36          }
37      })
38  }
39
40The format of the supported GPIO property is::
41
42  Package () { "name", Package () { ref, index, pin, active_low }}
43
44ref
45  The device that has _CRS containing GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources,
46  typically this is the device itself (BTH in our case).
47index
48  Index of the GpioIo()/GpioInt() resource in _CRS starting from zero.
49pin
50  Pin in the GpioIo()/GpioInt() resource. Typically this is zero.
51active_low
52  If 1, the GPIO is marked as active_low.
53
54Since ACPI GpioIo() resource does not have a field saying whether it is
55active low or high, the "active_low" argument can be used here.  Setting
56it to 1 marks the GPIO as active low.
57
58Note, active_low in _DSD does not make sense for GpioInt() resource and
59must be 0. GpioInt() resource has its own means of defining it.
60
61In our Bluetooth example the "reset-gpios" refers to the second GpioIo()
62resource, second pin in that resource with the GPIO number of 31.
63
64The GpioIo() resource unfortunately doesn't explicitly provide an initial
65state of the output pin which driver should use during its initialization.
66
67Linux tries to use common sense here and derives the state from the bias
68and polarity settings. The table below shows the expectations:
69
70=========  =============  ==============
71Pull Bias     Polarity     Requested...
72=========  =============  ==============
73Implicit     x            AS IS (assumed firmware configured for us)
74Explicit     x (no _DSD)  as Pull Bias (Up == High, Down == Low),
75                          assuming non-active (Polarity = !Pull Bias)
76Down         Low          as low, assuming active
77Down         High         as low, assuming non-active
78Up           Low          as high, assuming non-active
79Up           High         as high, assuming active
80=========  =============  ==============
81
82That said, for our above example the both GPIOs, since the bias setting
83is explicit and _DSD is present, will be treated as active with a high
84polarity and Linux will configure the pins in this state until a driver
85reprograms them differently.
86
87It is possible to leave holes in the array of GPIOs. This is useful in
88cases like with SPI host controllers where some chip selects may be
89implemented as GPIOs and some as native signals. For example a SPI host
90controller can have chip selects 0 and 2 implemented as GPIOs and 1 as
91native::
92
93  Package () {
94      "cs-gpios",
95      Package () {
96          ^GPIO, 19, 0, 0, // chip select 0: GPIO
97          0,               // chip select 1: native signal
98          ^GPIO, 20, 0, 0, // chip select 2: GPIO
99      }
100  }
101
102Other supported properties
103==========================
104
105Following Device Tree compatible device properties are also supported by
106_DSD device properties for GPIO controllers:
107
108- gpio-hog
109- output-high
110- output-low
111- input
112- line-name
113
114Example::
115
116  Name (_DSD, Package () {
117      // _DSD Hierarchical Properties Extension UUID
118      ToUUID("dbb8e3e6-5886-4ba6-8795-1319f52a966b"),
119      Package () {
120          Package () {"hog-gpio8", "G8PU"}
121      }
122  })
123
124  Name (G8PU, Package () {
125      ToUUID("daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301"),
126      Package () {
127          Package () {"gpio-hog", 1},
128          Package () {"gpios", Package () {8, 0}},
129          Package () {"output-high", 1},
130          Package () {"line-name", "gpio8-pullup"},
131      }
132  })
133
134- gpio-line-names
135
136The ``gpio-line-names`` declaration is a list of strings ("names"), which
137describes each line/pin of a GPIO controller/expander. This list, contained in
138a package, must be inserted inside the GPIO controller declaration of an ACPI
139table (typically inside the DSDT). The ``gpio-line-names`` list must respect the
140following rules (see also the examples):
141
142  - the first name in the list corresponds with the first line/pin of the GPIO
143    controller/expander
144  - the names inside the list must be consecutive (no "holes" are permitted)
145  - the list can be incomplete and can end before the last GPIO line: in
146    other words, it is not mandatory to fill all the GPIO lines
147  - empty names are allowed (two quotation marks ``""`` correspond to an empty
148    name)
149
150Example of a GPIO controller of 16 lines, with an incomplete list with two
151empty names::
152
153  Package () {
154      "gpio-line-names",
155      Package () {
156          "pin_0",
157          "pin_1",
158          "",
159          "",
160          "pin_3",
161          "pin_4_push_button",
162      }
163  }
164
165At runtime, the above declaration produces the following result (using the
166"libgpiod" tools)::
167
168  root@debian:~# gpioinfo gpiochip4
169  gpiochip4 - 16 lines:
170          line   0:      "pin_0"       unused   input  active-high
171          line   1:      "pin_1"       unused   input  active-high
172          line   2:      unnamed       unused   input  active-high
173          line   3:      unnamed       unused   input  active-high
174          line   4:      "pin_3"       unused   input  active-high
175          line   5: "pin_4_push_button" unused input active-high
176          line   6:      unnamed       unused   input  active-high
177          line   7       unnamed       unused   input  active-high
178          line   8:      unnamed       unused   input  active-high
179          line   9:      unnamed       unused   input  active-high
180          line  10:      unnamed       unused   input  active-high
181          line  11:      unnamed       unused   input  active-high
182          line  12:      unnamed       unused   input  active-high
183          line  13:      unnamed       unused   input  active-high
184          line  14:      unnamed       unused   input  active-high
185          line  15:      unnamed       unused   input  active-high
186  root@debian:~# gpiofind pin_4_push_button
187  gpiochip4 5
188  root@debian:~#
189
190Another example::
191
192  Package () {
193      "gpio-line-names",
194      Package () {
195          "SPI0_CS_N", "EXP2_INT", "MUX6_IO", "UART0_RXD",
196          "MUX7_IO", "LVL_C_A1", "MUX0_IO", "SPI1_MISO",
197      }
198  }
199
200See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt for more information
201about these properties.
202
203ACPI GPIO Mappings Provided by Drivers
204======================================
205
206There are systems in which the ACPI tables do not contain _DSD but provide _CRS
207with GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources and device drivers still need to work with
208them.
209
210In those cases ACPI device identification objects, _HID, _CID, _CLS, _SUB, _HRV,
211available to the driver can be used to identify the device and that is supposed
212to be sufficient to determine the meaning and purpose of all of the GPIO lines
213listed by the GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources returned by _CRS.  In other words,
214the driver is supposed to know what to use the GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources for
215once it has identified the device.  Having done that, it can simply assign names
216to the GPIO lines it is going to use and provide the GPIO subsystem with a
217mapping between those names and the ACPI GPIO resources corresponding to them.
218
219To do that, the driver needs to define a mapping table as a NULL-terminated
220array of struct acpi_gpio_mapping objects that each contains a name, a pointer
221to an array of line data (struct acpi_gpio_params) objects and the size of that
222array.  Each struct acpi_gpio_params object consists of three fields,
223crs_entry_index, line_index, active_low, representing the index of the target
224GpioIo()/GpioInt() resource in _CRS starting from zero, the index of the target
225line in that resource starting from zero, and the active-low flag for that line,
226respectively, in analogy with the _DSD GPIO property format specified above.
227
228For the example Bluetooth device discussed previously the data structures in
229question would look like this::
230
231  static const struct acpi_gpio_params reset_gpio = { 1, 1, false };
232  static const struct acpi_gpio_params shutdown_gpio = { 0, 0, false };
233
234  static const struct acpi_gpio_mapping bluetooth_acpi_gpios[] = {
235    { "reset-gpios", &reset_gpio, 1 },
236    { "shutdown-gpios", &shutdown_gpio, 1 },
237    { }
238  };
239
240Next, the mapping table needs to be passed as the second argument to
241acpi_dev_add_driver_gpios() or its managed analogue that will
242register it with the ACPI device object pointed to by its first
243argument. That should be done in the driver's .probe() routine.
244On removal, the driver should unregister its GPIO mapping table by
245calling acpi_dev_remove_driver_gpios() on the ACPI device object where that
246table was previously registered.
247
248Using the _CRS fallback
249=======================
250
251If a device does not have _DSD or the driver does not create ACPI GPIO
252mapping, the Linux GPIO framework refuses to return any GPIOs. This is
253because the driver does not know what it actually gets. For example if we
254have a device like below::
255
256  Device (BTH)
257  {
258      Name (_HID, ...)
259
260      Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate () {
261          GpioIo (Exclusive, PullNone, 0, 0, IoRestrictionNone,
262                  "\\_SB.GPO0", 0, ResourceConsumer) {15}
263          GpioIo (Exclusive, PullNone, 0, 0, IoRestrictionNone,
264                  "\\_SB.GPO0", 0, ResourceConsumer) {27}
265      })
266  }
267
268The driver might expect to get the right GPIO when it does::
269
270  desc = gpiod_get(dev, "reset", GPIOD_OUT_LOW);
271
272but since there is no way to know the mapping between "reset" and
273the GpioIo() in _CRS desc will hold ERR_PTR(-ENOENT).
274
275The driver author can solve this by passing the mapping explicitly
276(this is the recommended way and it's documented in the above chapter).
277
278The ACPI GPIO mapping tables should not contaminate drivers that are not
279knowing about which exact device they are servicing on. It implies that
280the ACPI GPIO mapping tables are hardly linked to an ACPI ID and certain
281objects, as listed in the above chapter, of the device in question.
282
283Getting GPIO descriptor
284=======================
285
286There are two main approaches to get GPIO resource from ACPI::
287
288  desc = gpiod_get(dev, connection_id, flags);
289  desc = gpiod_get_index(dev, connection_id, index, flags);
290
291We may consider two different cases here, i.e. when connection ID is
292provided and otherwise.
293
294Case 1::
295
296  desc = gpiod_get(dev, "non-null-connection-id", flags);
297  desc = gpiod_get_index(dev, "non-null-connection-id", index, flags);
298
299Case 2::
300
301  desc = gpiod_get(dev, NULL, flags);
302  desc = gpiod_get_index(dev, NULL, index, flags);
303
304Case 1 assumes that corresponding ACPI device description must have
305defined device properties and will prevent to getting any GPIO resources
306otherwise.
307
308Case 2 explicitly tells GPIO core to look for resources in _CRS.
309
310Be aware that gpiod_get_index() in cases 1 and 2, assuming that there
311are two versions of ACPI device description provided and no mapping is
312present in the driver, will return different resources. That's why a
313certain driver has to handle them carefully as explained in the previous
314chapter.
315