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Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 14:36:21 +0200
From: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>
To: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@...il.com>
Cc: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] gpio: mvebu: Add limited PWM support
Hi Ralph,
On mer., mai 31 2017, Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2017 17:35:33 +0200
> Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ralph,
>>
>> I have the functional spec (no NDA needed, but it's not the full
>> one) : A38x-Functional-Spec-PU0A.pdf
>> https://marvellcorp.wufoo.com/forms/marvell-armada-38x-functional-specifications/
>> (just an email needed, no blood signing nor chicken slaughtering)
>> There are the GPIO Blink Counter A/B is ON/OFF Duration Registers as
>> well as the Blink Enable Registers.
>>
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> Thanks for the link, as the terms only talk about materials obtained
> from www.marvell.com this one from wufoo.com should be exempt ;)
> Also at a glance looks like the complete one. Also says "Functional
> Specifications – Unrestricted". Maybe you want to re-download it.
>
> Regardless, as you said the blinking registers are all described. So
> it's probably safe to assume 39x will have them as well.
I guess you meant 38x. (But I suppose it is also true for 39x)
>
>> I've done a pwm with different periods (8ms, 4ms, 100ns).
>> Looking at the scope, it seems to work pretty well :)
>>
>> >>
>> >> And it makes me realized that I missed the bad naming of the
>> >> compatible string. We don't use family name for the compatible
>> >> string, but the name of the first SoC compatible with. So in this
>> >> case we should use "marvell,armada-370", as it is still in rc and
>> >> not yet deployed. What about fixing the name now?
>
> Gregory,
>
> Knowing it's not limited to 370/XP makes "marvell,armada-370-gpio" an
> obviously better choice for the compatible string. Guess you didn't
> mean to drop the "-gpio" suffix.
You're right I meant "marvell,armada-370-gpio".
>
> Will work on a patch changing the compatible string / documentation for
> 4.12 and an updated patch for armada 370/XP dtsi as well as a patch
> adding the properties to 38x for 4.13+. Expect them tomorrow, probably
> won't get around to it today anymore.
Great!
Thanks,
Gregory
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Gregory Clement, Free Electrons
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