Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 5 authors, 2020-01-09

Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] ARM: at91/dt: sama5d3: add i2c gpio pinctrl

From: <Codrin.Ciubotariu@microchip.com>
Date: 2020-01-06 16:58:49
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On 05.01.2020 00:39, Peter Rosin wrote:
On 2020-01-03 10:49, Codrin.Ciubotariu@microchip.com wrote:
quoted
From: Kamel Bouhara <kamel.bouhara@bootlin.com>

Add the i2c gpio pinctrls to support the i2c bus recovery

Signed-off-by: Kamel Bouhara <kamel.bouhara@bootlin.com>
---

Changes in v2:
  - none;

  arch/arm/boot/dts/sama5d3.dtsi | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
*snip*
quoted
@@ -639,6 +648,12 @@
                                                       <AT91_PIOA 30 AT91_PERIPH_A AT91_PINCTRL_NONE   /* PA30 periph A TWD0 pin, conflicts with URXD1, ISI_VSYNC */
                                                        AT91_PIOA 31 AT91_PERIPH_A AT91_PINCTRL_NONE>; /* PA31 periph A TWCK0 pin, conflicts with UTXD1, ISI_HSYNC */
                                       };
+
+                                     pinctrl_i2c0_gpio: i2c0-gpio {
+                                             atmel,pins =
+                                                     <AT91_PIOA 30 AT91_PERIPH_GPIO AT91_PINCTRL_PULL_UP
+                                                      AT91_PIOA 31 AT91_PERIPH_GPIO AT91_PINCTRL_PULL_UP>;
+                                     };
I'm curious, but why are pull-ups suddenly needed just because the pins are
used for GPIO recovery? Why are pull-ups not needed when the pins are used
by the I2C peripheral device(s)?

Given figure 27-2 "I/O Line Control Logic" in my SAMA5D3 datasheet, I see
no difference as to how and why the pull-ups are applied depending on what
the current function of the pin is. So, if the I2C bus works w/o pulls, bus
recovery using GPIO must also work w/o pulls.

I.e. the device tree requires you to have external pull-ups on the I2C bus
anyway, so why bother with internal pull-ups for the recovery case?

Changing pull-up settings just for recovery feels like something that will
inevitably create hard to debug surprises at the least opportune time...

Or am I missing something?

(I'm focusing on SAMA5D3 since that is what I happen to work with,
  but the same question appears to apply for SAMA5D2 and SAMA5D4...)
I don't think we need the pull-ups. I will remove them in v3.

Thanks and best regards,
Codrin
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