* What is the purpose of GPIO pins.
@ 2005-02-15 11:59 krishna
2005-02-15 12:19 ` linux-os
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From: krishna @ 2005-02-15 11:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux Kernel
Hi all,
Can any one tell me the purpose GPIO pin serves.
How are GPIO pins better than dedicated pins, considering hardware
design view and for programming view.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya
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* Re: What is the purpose of GPIO pins.
2005-02-15 11:59 What is the purpose of GPIO pins krishna
@ 2005-02-15 12:19 ` linux-os
2005-02-15 12:23 ` krishna
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From: linux-os @ 2005-02-15 12:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: krishna; +Cc: Linux Kernel
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, krishna wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can any one tell me the purpose GPIO pin serves.
> How are GPIO pins better than dedicated pins, considering hardware design
> view and for programming view.
>
Do you mean General Purpose I/O bits on a chip?
^ ^ ^ ^
If so, it is intended to live in the lower 16 megabytes of
an ix86 machine (higher addresses are not decoded), and at one
time, went to the ISA bus, but is now usually a simple
asynchronous bus off from some bridge.
>From a hardware perspective, it's slow. From a programming
perspective, you don't care where it is.
> Regards,
> Krishna Chaitanya
Cheers,
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* Re: What is the purpose of GPIO pins.
2005-02-15 12:19 ` linux-os
@ 2005-02-15 12:23 ` krishna
2005-02-16 15:24 ` Robert Schwebel
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From: krishna @ 2005-02-15 12:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-os; +Cc: Linux Kernel
Hi,
NO, Sorry I wasn't clear.
I am asking about GPIO controllers used in HandHeld Devices.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya
linux-os wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, krishna wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Can any one tell me the purpose GPIO pin serves.
>> How are GPIO pins better than dedicated pins, considering hardware
>> design view and for programming view.
>>
>
> Do you mean General Purpose I/O bits on a chip?
> ^ ^ ^ ^
> If so, it is intended to live in the lower 16 megabytes of
> an ix86 machine (higher addresses are not decoded), and at one
> time, went to the ISA bus, but is now usually a simple
> asynchronous bus off from some bridge.
>
>> From a hardware perspective, it's slow. From a programming
>
> perspective, you don't care where it is.
>
>> Regards,
>> Krishna Chaitanya
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
> Penguin : Linux version 2.6.10 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips).
> Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by Dictator Bush.
> 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
>
>
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* Re: What is the purpose of GPIO pins.
2005-02-15 12:23 ` krishna
@ 2005-02-16 15:24 ` Robert Schwebel
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From: Robert Schwebel @ 2005-02-16 15:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: krishna; +Cc: Linux Kernel
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:53:00PM +0530, krishna wrote:
> NO, Sorry I wasn't clear.
> I am asking about GPIO controllers used in HandHeld Devices.
Embedded CPUs usually have general purpose I/O pins for all kind of
stuff; you can just use them as inputs (for example for reading
keyboards), outputs (e.g. setting LEDs) or use them as interrupt
sources with various properties (level, edge, ...).
Robert
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