On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Matt Turner <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Julien De Bona
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I found that commit 2539387611b8b15bb2367275df9bfd3e29dc2a0e in December
> > 2010 broke the Gdium's GPIOs by doing this:
> > - set ARCH_NR_GPIOS to 4, which can fit the Loongson 2f's 4 GPIOs but not
> > the 64 GPIOs from the SM501 (the driver expects ARCH_NR_GPIOS==256)
> > - register ARCH_NR_GPIOS ls2f GPIOs, which allocates all potential GPIOs
> to
> > ls2f and leaves no room for the SM501 GPIOs.
> >
> > As many things are connected to the GPIOs on the Gdium, this broke many
> > things.
> >
> > I attached a patch fixing this problem.  It sets ARCH_NR_GPIOS back to
> 256
> > for Gdium and lets the ls2f driver only register the 4 GPIOs of the CPU.
> > It's a patch against an old head (Linux 3.2), but I don't think current
> code
> > has changed a lot.  I hope to work on an up-to-date head once my netbook
> > works  At least I hope it can be useful for someone.
> >
> > Regards
> > --
> > Julien De Bona - [email protected]
>
> Patches should go to Ralf and linux-mips@. Not here.
>
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Dear Julien,
(Recent) kernel support for the Gdium will be very much welcomed by me,
indeed!

Thank you for developing for this forgotten system!

Sadly, I do not possess coding skills myself. However, if you require help
in some other form I would be glad to oblige.

-bmq

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