On 15/03/2024 21:20, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 09:09:11PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
+properties:
- compatible:
- const: mikrobus-connector
Hm, why do you create binding for the connector, not for some sort of controller? Please provide some rationale for this in commit msg.
I think you have a distorted view. I refer you to the Mikroe mikroBUS specification - it's _just_ a connector which provides a fairly standardised purpose for each pin and the electrical specifications. For example of the pins: power, UART, SPIs, I2C, PWM, and analogue pins.
I refer to the commit msg or description in the binding and there is nothing explained like this. Yeah, true, I could google every possible bus specification, but I also expect some sort of help here by the patch submitter.
The binding looks like binding for a connector, not for some sort of controller, then are you saying the control part it is purely in software? That's how DTS looks like, but then my question is are there some sort of controller which would also perform this?
- pinctrl-names:
- items:
- const: default- const: pwm_default- const: pwm_gpio- const: uart_default- const: uart_gpio- const: i2c_default- const: i2c_gpio- const: spi_default- const: spi_gpioI fail to see why such choice is related to the connector itself.
This isn't a choice at all. Here's the list of pins:
Analog - AN Reset - RST SPI Chip Select - CS SPI Clock - SCK SPI Master Input Slave Output - MISO SPI Master Output Slave Input - MOSI VCC-3.3V power - +3.3V Reference Ground - GND PWM - PWM output INT - Hardware Interrupt RX - UART Receive TX - UART Transmit SCL - I2C Clock SDA - I2C Data +5V - VCC-5V power GND - Reference Ground
Any data pin can be a GPIO if e.g. a relay board is plugged in, even if some of the other pins are used for e.g. UART purposes. For example, a GPS board that provides the GPS data over the UART pins, and the PPS signal through a different pin.
And could you not have some certain features supported? Could have some pins just pull down / not connected?
Best regards, Krzysztof