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authorPeter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@barco.com>2011-01-10 16:11:23 -0500
committerJean Delvare <khali@endymion.delvare>2011-01-10 16:11:23 -0500
commit92ed1a76ca31774eb27de14b2215841367c68056 (patch)
treef9becefa5dbcdaa8cfd65100e1735044cd3910d6 /Documentation/i2c/muxes
parentb18a5c80eb2e7e9c72d23f1960b09d78ddf7e5b0 (diff)
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 <peter.korsgaard@barco.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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1Kernel driver gpio-i2cmux
2
3Author: Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@barco.com>
4
5Description
6-----------
7
8gpio-i2cmux is an i2c mux driver providing access to I2C bus segments
9from a master I2C bus and a hardware MUX controlled through GPIO pins.
10
11E.G.:
12
13 ---------- ---------- Bus segment 1 - - - - -
14 | | SCL/SDA | |-------------- | |
15 | |------------| |
16 | | | | Bus segment 2 | |
17 | Linux | GPIO 1..N | MUX |--------------- Devices
18 | |------------| | | |
19 | | | | Bus segment M
20 | | | |---------------| |
21 ---------- ---------- - - - - -
22
23SCL/SDA of the master I2C bus is multiplexed to bus segment 1..M
24according to the settings of the GPIO pins 1..N.
25
26Usage
27-----
28
29gpio-i2cmux uses the platform bus, so you need to provide a struct
30platform_device with the platform_data pointing to a struct
31gpio_i2cmux_platform_data with the I2C adapter number of the master
32bus, the number of bus segments to create and the GPIO pins used
33to control it. See include/linux/gpio-i2cmux.h for details.
34
35E.G. something like this for a MUX providing 4 bus segments
36controlled through 3 GPIO pins:
37
38#include <linux/gpio-i2cmux.h>
39#include <linux/platform_device.h>
40
41static const unsigned myboard_gpiomux_gpios[] = {
42 AT91_PIN_PC26, AT91_PIN_PC25, AT91_PIN_PC24
43};
44
45static const unsigned myboard_gpiomux_values[] = {
46 0, 1, 2, 3
47};
48
49static struct gpio_i2cmux_platform_data myboard_i2cmux_data = {
50 .parent = 1,
51 .base_nr = 2, /* optional */
52 .values = myboard_gpiomux_values,
53 .n_values = ARRAY_SIZE(myboard_gpiomux_values),
54 .gpios = myboard_gpiomux_gpios,
55 .n_gpios = ARRAY_SIZE(myboard_gpiomux_gpios),
56 .idle = 4, /* optional */
57};
58
59static struct platform_device myboard_i2cmux = {
60 .name = "gpio-i2cmux",
61 .id = 0,
62 .dev = {
63 .platform_data = &myboard_i2cmux_data,
64 },
65};