From 92ed1a76ca31774eb27de14b2215841367c68056 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:11:23 +0100 Subject: i2c: Add generic I2C multiplexer using GPIO API Add an i2c mux driver providing access to i2c bus segments using a hardware MUX sitting on a master bus and controlled through gpio pins. E.G. something like: ---------- ---------- Bus segment 1 - - - - - | | SCL/SDA | |-------------- | | | |------------| | | | | | Bus segment 2 | | | Linux | GPIO 1..N | MUX |--------------- Devices | |------------| | | | | | | | Bus segment M | | | |---------------| | ---------- ---------- - - - - - SCL/SDA of the master I2C bus is multiplexed to bus segment 1..M according to the settings of the GPIO pins 1..N. Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare --- Documentation/i2c/muxes/gpio-i2cmux | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/i2c/muxes/gpio-i2cmux (limited to 'Documentation/i2c') diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/muxes/gpio-i2cmux b/Documentation/i2c/muxes/gpio-i2cmux new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..811cd78d4cd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/i2c/muxes/gpio-i2cmux @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +Kernel driver gpio-i2cmux + +Author: Peter Korsgaard + +Description +----------- + +gpio-i2cmux is an i2c mux driver providing access to I2C bus segments +from a master I2C bus and a hardware MUX controlled through GPIO pins. + +E.G.: + + ---------- ---------- Bus segment 1 - - - - - + | | SCL/SDA | |-------------- | | + | |------------| | + | | | | Bus segment 2 | | + | Linux | GPIO 1..N | MUX |--------------- Devices + | |------------| | | | + | | | | Bus segment M + | | | |---------------| | + ---------- ---------- - - - - - + +SCL/SDA of the master I2C bus is multiplexed to bus segment 1..M +according to the settings of the GPIO pins 1..N. + +Usage +----- + +gpio-i2cmux uses the platform bus, so you need to provide a struct +platform_device with the platform_data pointing to a struct +gpio_i2cmux_platform_data with the I2C adapter number of the master +bus, the number of bus segments to create and the GPIO pins used +to control it. See include/linux/gpio-i2cmux.h for details. + +E.G. something like this for a MUX providing 4 bus segments +controlled through 3 GPIO pins: + +#include +#include + +static const unsigned myboard_gpiomux_gpios[] = { + AT91_PIN_PC26, AT91_PIN_PC25, AT91_PIN_PC24 +}; + +static const unsigned myboard_gpiomux_values[] = { + 0, 1, 2, 3 +}; + +static struct gpio_i2cmux_platform_data myboard_i2cmux_data = { + .parent = 1, + .base_nr = 2, /* optional */ + .values = myboard_gpiomux_values, + .n_values = ARRAY_SIZE(myboard_gpiomux_values), + .gpios = myboard_gpiomux_gpios, + .n_gpios = ARRAY_SIZE(myboard_gpiomux_gpios), + .idle = 4, /* optional */ +}; + +static struct platform_device myboard_i2cmux = { + .name = "gpio-i2cmux", + .id = 0, + .dev = { + .platform_data = &myboard_i2cmux_data, + }, +}; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2