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From: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip.com>
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Cc: <linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	<linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org>,
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	<devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 11/16] pwm: add documentation for PWM modes
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:22:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1515766983-15151-12-git-send-email-claudiu.beznea@microchip.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1515766983-15151-1-git-send-email-claudiu.beznea@microchip.com>

Add documentation for PWM normal and complementary modes.

Signed-off-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip.com>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm.txt | 17 ++++++++++++++--
 Documentation/pwm.txt                         | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm.txt
index 8556263b8502..fdff25bad1db 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm.txt
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ because the name "backlight" would be used as fallback anyway.
 pwm-specifier typically encodes the chip-relative PWM number and the PWM
 period in nanoseconds.
 
-Optionally, the pwm-specifier can encode a number of flags (defined in
-<dt-bindings/pwm/pwm.h>) in a third cell:
+Optionally, the pwm-specifier can encode:
+1. a number of flags (defined in <dt-bindings/pwm/pwm.h>) in a third cell:
 - PWM_POLARITY_INVERTED: invert the PWM signal polarity
 
 Example with optional PWM specifier for inverse polarity
@@ -54,6 +54,19 @@ Example with optional PWM specifier for inverse polarity
 		pwm-names = "backlight";
 	};
 
+2. PWM working modes (defined in <dt-bindings/pwm/pwm.h>) in the 4th cell:
+- PWM_MODE_NORMAL: for all PWM controllers
+- PWM_MODE_COMPLEMENTARY: for PWM controllers with more than one output per
+PWM channel
+
+Example with PWM modes:
+
+	bl: blacklight {
+		pwms = <&pwm 0 5000000 PWM_POLARITY_INVERTED
+			PWM_DTMODE_NORMAL | PWM_DTMODE_COMPLEMENTARY>;
+		pwm-names = "backlight";
+	};
+
 2) PWM controller nodes
 -----------------------
 
diff --git a/Documentation/pwm.txt b/Documentation/pwm.txt
index 8fbf0aa3ba2d..58c9bd55f021 100644
--- a/Documentation/pwm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pwm.txt
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ In addition to the PWM state, the PWM API also exposes PWM arguments, which
 are the reference PWM config one should use on this PWM.
 PWM arguments are usually platform-specific and allows the PWM user to only
 care about dutycycle relatively to the full period (like, duty = 50% of the
-period). struct pwm_args contains 2 fields (period and polarity) and should
-be used to set the initial PWM config (usually done in the probe function
+period). struct pwm_args contains 3 fields (period, polarity and mode) and
+should be used to set the initial PWM config (usually done in the probe function
 of the PWM user). PWM arguments are retrieved with pwm_get_args().
 
 Using PWMs with the sysfs interface
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ will find:
   unexport
    Unexports a PWM channel from sysfs (write-only).
 
+  mode
+   PWM chip supported modes.
+
 The PWM channels are numbered using a per-chip index from 0 to npwm-1.
 
 When a PWM channel is exported a pwmX directory will be created in the
@@ -110,6 +113,28 @@ channel that was exported. The following properties will then be available:
 	- 0 - disabled
 	- 1 - enabled
 
+  mode
+    Set PWM channel working mode (normal and complementary). PWM chip with
+    complementary mode could also work in normal mode by using only one physical
+    output.
+
+    Normal mode - for PWM chips with one output per PWM channel; output
+        waveforms looks like this:
+             __    __    __    __
+    PWM   __|  |__|  |__|  |__|  |__
+            <--T-->
+
+    Complementary mode - for PWM chips with more than one output per PWM
+        channel; output waveforms for a PWM controller with 2 outputs per PWM
+        channel looks line this:
+             __    __    __    __
+    PWMH1 __|  |__|  |__|  |__|  |__
+          __    __    __    __    __
+    PWML1   |__|  |__|  |__|  |__|
+            <--T-->
+
+    Where T is the signal period.
+
 Implementing a PWM driver
 -------------------------
 
-- 
2.7.4

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-12 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-12 14:22 [PATCH v2 00/16] extend PWM framework to support PWM modes Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] drivers: pwm: core: use a single of xlate function Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 18:35   ` Brian Norris
2018-01-15  8:41     ` Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-15 12:43       ` Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-15 20:27       ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-01-16  8:24         ` Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-17 23:14           ` Brian Norris
2018-01-18  9:11             ` Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-16  9:07   ` Neil Armstrong
2018-01-16  9:33     ` Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] pwm: pxa: update documentation regarding pwm-cells Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-19 22:30   ` Rob Herring
2018-01-22  8:47     ` Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] pwm: cros-ec: " Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 18:31   ` Brian Norris
2018-01-15  9:01     ` Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-17  8:29       ` Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-17 23:10         ` Brian Norris
2018-01-18  9:18           ` Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] pwm: clps711x: " Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] ARM: dts: clps711x: update pwm-cells Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 06/16] ARM: dts: pxa: " Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] arm64: dts: rockchip: " Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] drivers: pwm: core: extend PWM framework with PWM modes Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] drivers: pwm: core: add PWM mode to pwm_config() Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] pwm: Add PWM modes Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-19 22:34   ` Rob Herring
2018-01-22  8:54     ` Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-22 18:12       ` Rob Herring
2018-01-23 10:40         ` Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-23 15:21           ` Rob Herring
2018-01-23 16:55             ` Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 14:22 ` Claudiu Beznea [this message]
2018-01-19 22:39   ` [PATCH v2 11/16] pwm: add documentation for " Rob Herring
2018-01-22  8:55     ` Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] pwm: atmel: add pwm capabilities Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 14:23 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] drivers: pwm: core: add push-pull mode support Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 14:23 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] pwm: add push-pull mode Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-12 14:23 ` [PATCH v2 15/16] pwm: add documentation for pwm " Claudiu Beznea
2018-01-19 22:41   ` Rob Herring
2018-01-12 14:23 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] pwm: atmel: add push-pull mode support Claudiu Beznea

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