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On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 9:14 PM, Richard Wilbur richard.wilbur@gmail.com wrote:
On May 14, 2018, at 12:24, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
Look up sunxi-tools fex2bin bin2fex and wiki sunxi fex.
I did look up and read some about those topics--and I will read more!
What I'm wondering is what does the script.bin configure presently at boot?
whatever you ask it to. it's the exact analogous equivalent of device-tree.
Then I can figure out whether we need to change it in order to be able to test the GPIO pins. With sunxi 3.4 kernel it looks like whatever we have configured in script.bin is what we have to work with on that load of the gpio-sunxi kernel module so I'm interested in making sure the GPIO pins we want to test are configured into the /sys/class/gpio namespace, and at what names they appear.
I read in the sunxi GPIO wiki page[1] that script.bin can specify the mapping between the GPIO number NNN and PORT:BIT that determines the sysfs name /sys/class/gpio/gpioNNN_PORTBIT brought about by sudo echo NNN >/sys/class/gpio/export # A request to export control over gpio mapping NNN (as defined in script.bin) from kernel space to user space.
yep.
So, to track down the pins we want, we need to know the mapping that is currently in script.bin (or specify it ourselves).
yyep. that means looking at the schematic DS113 PDF (oh, you have the A20 pin names already don't you?), so just... drop those into the fex gpio section, and as long as CONFIG_SUNXI_GPIO is enabled on kernel compiles they'll get dropped into /sys/class/gpio as expected.
There is a scheme outlined in the sunxi GPIO wiki page[1] for associating the numbers NNN with PORT:BIT that is followed on the A20/PIO page[2] and seems useful as it is consistent and reversible. So if we haven't already created a version of script.bin (for the sunxi-gpio module) that maps the A20's Programmable Input/Output pins for the DS113 card, I'd recommend we follow that scheme.
NNN := (PORT - 'A') * 32 + BIT
PORT:BIT NNN sysfs PI11 267 gpio267_pi11 PI10 266 gpio266_pi10 PI13 269 gpio269_pi13 PI12 268 gpio268_pi12 PI3 259 gpio259_pi3 PB4 36 gpio36_pb4 PH0 224 gpio224_ph0 PB3 35 gpio35_pb3
ok - hum i need to send you that card, don't i. you'll be able to try this out.
l.