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From: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Christopher S . Hall" <christopher.s.hall@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] PTP: add support for Intel's TGPIO controller
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:35:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h87isci5.fsf@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190718195040.GL25635@lunn.ch>

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Hi,

Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:20:33AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> TGPIO is a new IP which allows for time synchronization between systems
>> without any other means of synchronization such as PTP or NTP. The
>> driver is implemented as part of the PTP framework since its features
>> covered most of what this controller can do.
>
> Hi Felipe
>
> Given the name TGPIO, can it also be used for plain old boring GPIO?

not really, no. This is a misnomer, IMHO :-) We can only assert output
pulses at specified intervals or capture a timestamp of an external
signal.

> Does there need to be some sort of mux between GPIO and TGPIO? And an
> interface into the generic GPIO core?

no

> Also, is this always embedded into a SoC? Or could it actually be in a
> discrete NIC?

Technically, this could be done as a discrete, but it isn't. In any
case, why does that matter? From a linux-point of view, we have a device
driver either way.

-- 
balbi

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-19  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-16  7:20 [RFC PATCH 0/5] PTP: add support for Intel's TGPIO controller Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16  7:20 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] x86: tsc: add tsc to art helpers Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16  7:57   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-15  5:57     ` Felipe Balbi
2019-08-15 14:16       ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-10-01 10:24         ` Felipe Balbi
2019-10-17 11:15           ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-10-17 12:01             ` Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16  7:20 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] PTP: add a callback for counting timestamp events Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16  7:20 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] PTP: implement PTP_EVENT_COUNT_TSTAMP ioctl Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16  7:20 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] PTP: Add flag for non-periodic output Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16 16:39   ` Richard Cochran
2019-07-17  6:49     ` Felipe Balbi
2019-07-17 17:36       ` Richard Cochran
2019-07-18  8:59         ` Felipe Balbi
2019-07-18 16:41           ` Richard Cochran
2019-08-13  7:53             ` Felipe Balbi
2019-08-13 17:48               ` Richard Cochran
2019-08-13 18:06                 ` Richard Cochran
2019-08-14  7:05                   ` Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16  7:20 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] PTP: Add support for Intel PMC Timed GPIO Controller Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16 19:14   ` Shannon Nelson
2019-07-17  6:51     ` Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16 16:41 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] PTP: add support for Intel's TGPIO controller Richard Cochran
2019-07-17  6:52   ` Felipe Balbi
2019-07-17 17:39     ` Richard Cochran
2019-07-18  8:58       ` Felipe Balbi
2019-07-18 19:50 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-07-19  7:35   ` Felipe Balbi [this message]
2019-07-19 13:20     ` Andrew Lunn
2019-08-13  7:50       ` Felipe Balbi
2019-08-13 17:49         ` Richard Cochran

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