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Subsystem drivers using GPIO
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Note that standard kernel drivers exist for common GPIO tasks and will provide
the right in-kernel and userspace APIs/ABIs for the job, and that these
drivers can quite easily interconnect with other kernel subsystems using
hardware descriptions such as device tree or ACPI:
- leds-gpio: drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c will handle LEDs connected to GPIO
lines, giving you the LED sysfs interface
- ledtrig-gpio: drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-gpio.c will provide a LED trigger,
i.e. a LED will turn on/off in response to a GPIO line going high or low
(and that LED may in turn use the leds-gpio as per above).
- gpio-keys: drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c is used when your GPIO line
can generate interrupts in response to a key press. Also supports debounce.
- gpio-keys-polled: drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys_polled.c is used when your
GPIO line cannot generate interrupts, so it needs to be periodically polled
by a timer.
- gpio_mouse: drivers/input/mouse/gpio_mouse.c is used to provide a mouse with
up to three buttons by simply using GPIOs and no mouse port. You can cut the
mouse cable and connect the wires to GPIO lines or solder a mouse connector
to the lines for a more permanent solution of this type.
- gpio-beeper: drivers/input/misc/gpio-beeper.c is used to provide a beep from
an external speaker connected to a GPIO line. (If the beep is controlled by
off/on, for an actual PWM waveform, see pwm-gpio below.)
- pwm-gpio: drivers/pwm/pwm-gpio.c is used to toggle a GPIO with a high
resolution timer producing a PWM waveform on the GPIO line, as well as
Linux high resolution timers can do.
- extcon-gpio: drivers/extcon/extcon-gpio.c is used when you need to read an
external connector status, such as a headset line for an audio driver or an
HDMI connector. It will provide a better userspace sysfs interface than GPIO.
- restart-gpio: drivers/power/reset/gpio-restart.c is used to restart/reboot
the system by pulling a GPIO line and will register a restart handler so
userspace can issue the right system call to restart the system.
- poweroff-gpio: drivers/power/reset/gpio-poweroff.c is used to power the
system down by pulling a GPIO line and will register a pm_power_off()
callback so that userspace can issue the right system call to power down the
system.
- gpio-gate-clock: drivers/clk/clk-gpio.c is used to control a gated clock
(off/on) that uses a GPIO, and integrated with the clock subsystem.
- i2c-gpio: drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-gpio.c is used to drive an I2C bus
(two wires, SDA and SCL lines) by hammering (bitbang) two GPIO lines. It will
appear as any other I2C bus to the system and makes it possible to connect
drivers for the I2C devices on the bus like any other I2C bus driver.
- spi_gpio: drivers/spi/spi-gpio.c is used to drive an SPI bus (variable number
of wires, at least SCK and optionally MISO, MOSI and chip select lines) using
GPIO hammering (bitbang). It will appear as any other SPI bus on the system
and makes it possible to connect drivers for SPI devices on the bus like
any other SPI bus driver. For example any MMC/SD card can then be connected
to this SPI by using the mmc_spi host from the MMC/SD card subsystem.
- w1-gpio: drivers/w1/masters/w1-gpio.c is used to drive a one-wire bus using
a GPIO line, integrating with the W1 subsystem and handling devices on
the bus like any other W1 device.
- gpio-fan: drivers/hwmon/gpio-fan.c is used to control a fan for cooling the
system, connected to a GPIO line (and optionally a GPIO alarm line),
presenting all the right in-kernel and sysfs interfaces to make your system
not overheat.
- gpio-regulator: drivers/regulator/gpio-regulator.c is used to control a
regulator providing a certain voltage by pulling a GPIO line, integrating
with the regulator subsystem and giving you all the right interfaces.
- gpio-wdt: drivers/watchdog/gpio_wdt.c is used to provide a watchdog timer
that will periodically "ping" a hardware connected to a GPIO line by toggling
it from 1-to-0-to-1. If that hardware does not receive its "ping"
periodically, it will reset the system.
- gpio-nand: drivers/mtd/nand/raw/gpio.c is used to connect a NAND flash chip
to a set of simple GPIO lines: RDY, NCE, ALE, CLE, NWP. It interacts with the
NAND flash MTD subsystem and provides chip access and partition parsing like
any other NAND driving hardware.
- ps2-gpio: drivers/input/serio/ps2-gpio.c is used to drive a PS/2 (IBM) serio
bus, data and clock line, by bit banging two GPIO lines. It will appear as
any other serio bus to the system and makes it possible to connect drivers
for e.g. keyboards and other PS/2 protocol based devices.
- cec-gpio: drivers/media/platform/cec-gpio/ is used to interact with a CEC
Consumer Electronics Control bus using only GPIO. It is used to communicate
with devices on the HDMI bus.
- gpio-charger: drivers/power/supply/gpio-charger.c is used if you need to do
battery charging and all you have to go by to check the presence of the
AC charger or more complex tasks such as indicating charging status using
nothing but GPIO lines, this driver provides that and also a clearly defined
way to pass the charging parameters from hardware descriptions such as the
device tree.
- gpio-mux: drivers/mux/gpio.c is used for controlling a multiplexer using
n GPIO lines such that you can mux in 2^n different devices by activating
different GPIO lines. Often the GPIOs are on a SoC and the devices are
some SoC-external entities, such as different components on a PCB that
can be selectively enabled.
Apart from this there are special GPIO drivers in subsystems like MMC/SD to
read card detect and write protect GPIO lines, and in the TTY serial subsystem
to emulate MCTRL (modem control) signals CTS/RTS by using two GPIO lines. The
MTD NOR flash has add-ons for extra GPIO lines too, though the address bus is
usually connected directly to the flash.
Use those instead of talking directly to the GPIOs from userspace; they
integrate with kernel frameworks better than your userspace code could.
Needless to say, just using the appropriate kernel drivers will simplify and
speed up your embedded hacking in particular by providing ready-made components.
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