Re: [PATCH 0/3] MIPS: JZ4740: Move PWM driver to PWM framework

On Sunday 02 September 2012 11:52:27 Thierry Reding wrote:

This small series fixes a build error due to a circular header
dependency, exports the timer API so it can be used outside of
the arch/mips/jz4740 tree and finally moves and converts the
JZ4740 PWM driver to the PWM framework.

Note that I don't have any hardware to test this on, so I had to
rely on compile tests only. Patches 1 and 2 should probably go
through the MIPS tree, while I can take patch 3 through the PWM
tree. It touches a couple of files in arch/mips but the changes
are unlikely to cause conflicts.

Exporting the hardware outputs PWM2-7 as index 0-5 in the PWM core is rather 
confusing. I discussed with Lars on IRC and it's probably better to expose 
PWM0-7 through the API, but refuse to hand out PWM0 and PWM1 when requested, 
since their associated timers are in use by the system. I attached a diff 
that illustrates this approach.

Note that if this approach is taken, the beeper ID in board-qi_lb60.c should 
be changed back from 2 to 4, since the beeper is attached to PWM4.

I tested the "for-next" branch on the Dingoo A320 with the pwm-backlight 
driver. It didn't work at first, because the PWM number and the timer number 
didn't align: I requested PWM number 5 to get PWM7 and the GPIO of PWM7 was 
used, but with timer 5 instead of timer 7, resulting in a dark screen. 
However, it works fine after adding PWM0/1 as described above.

If other people want to test on real hardware, you can find the code in 
branch jz-3.6-rc2-pwm in the qi-kernel repository. Unfortunately our web 
interface for git is still broken, but the repo itself is fine.
  git://projects.qi-hardware.com/qi-kernel.git

Bye,
		Maarten