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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>
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: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:50:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190718195040.GL25635@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190716072038.8408-1-felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>

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

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

Thanks
	Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-18 19:50 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 [this message]
2019-07-19  7:35   ` Felipe Balbi
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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