Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/nvidia,tegra186-gpio.yaml
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- Support Tooling And Documentation: configuration, schema, or hardware description
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Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
Dependency Surface
dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/irq.h
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
%YAML 1.2
---
$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/gpio/nvidia,tegra186-gpio.yaml#
$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
title: NVIDIA Tegra GPIO Controller (Tegra186 and later)
maintainers:
- Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
- Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
description: |
Tegra186 contains two GPIO controllers; a main controller and an "AON"
controller. This binding document applies to both controllers. The register
layouts for the controllers share many similarities, but also some
significant differences. Hence, this document describes closely related but
different bindings and compatible values.
The Tegra186 GPIO controller allows software to set the IO direction of,
and read/write the value of, numerous GPIO signals. Routing of GPIO signals
to package balls is under the control of a separate pin controller hardware
block. Two major sets of registers exist:
a) Security registers, which allow configuration of allowed access to the
GPIO register set. These registers exist in a single contiguous block
of physical address space. The size of this block, and the security
features available, varies between the different GPIO controllers.
Access to this set of registers is not necessary in all circumstances.
Code that wishes to configure access to the GPIO registers needs access
to these registers to do so. Code which simply wishes to read or write
GPIO data does not need access to these registers.
b) GPIO registers, which allow manipulation of the GPIO signals. In some
GPIO controllers, these registers are exposed via multiple "physical
aliases" in address space, each of which access the same underlying
state. See the hardware documentation for rationale. Any particular
GPIO client is expected to access just one of these physical aliases.
Tegra HW documentation describes a unified naming convention for all GPIOs
implemented by the SoC. Each GPIO is assigned to a port, and a port may
control a number of GPIOs. Thus, each GPIO is named according to an
alphabetical port name and an integer GPIO name within the port. For
example, GPIO_PA0, GPIO_PN6, or GPIO_PCC3.
The number of ports implemented by each GPIO controller varies. The number
of implemented GPIOs within each port varies. GPIO registers within a
controller are grouped and laid out according to the port they affect.
The mapping from port name to the GPIO controller that implements that
port, and the mapping from port name to register offset within a
controller, are both extremely non-linear. The header file
<dt-bindings/gpio/tegra186-gpio.h> describes the port-level mapping. In
that file, the naming convention for ports matches the HW documentation.
The values chosen for the names are alphabetically sorted within a
particular controller. Drivers need to map between the DT GPIO IDs and HW
register offsets using a lookup table.
Each GPIO controller can generate a number of interrupt signals. Each
signal represents the aggregate status for all GPIOs within a set of
ports. Thus, the number of interrupt signals generated by a controller
varies as a rough function of the number of ports it implements. Note
that the HW documentation refers to both the overall controller HW
module and the sets-of-ports as "controllers".
Each GPIO controller in fact generates multiple interrupts signals for
each set of ports. Each GPIO may be configured to feed into a specific
one of the interrupt signals generated by a set-of-ports. The intent is
for each generated signal to be routed to a different CPU, thus allowing
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/irq.h`.
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.