Subj : gpio on x86
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Gerrit Kuehn
Date : Fri May 13 2022 09:15 am

Hello Maurice!

12 May 22 21:05, Maurice Kinal wrote to Maurice Kinal:


 MK> Errrr ... only CONFIG_GPIO_PCA953X_IRQ and CONFIG_LEDS_PCA9532_GPIO 
 MK> are not enabled.  The chipset itself is modular along with 
 MK> CONFIG_LEDS_PCA9532.

I don't think I'd need these. IRQ handling can be done (or not), and the LED driver is further down the userland road (and to make it even more confusing, there is leds_pca955x that would fit the chip I have). Same for i2c and sma modules.
However, my understanding is that the gpio_pca953x module should already report the chip in dmesg when being probed, and this does not happen. Everything else is useless if this first step fails.

 MK> Getting old buddy.  Mind you we got uefi boots working ... again.  
 MK> Not sure that is anything worth bragging about since we'd still be 
 MK> using legacy boots if that had been an option.  :-/

I did use legacy/csm for quite some time if available. However, meanwhile uefi works fine for me and is actually easier to set up and maintain, so I use it on all new machines now.


Regards,
Gerrit

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