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Subject: Re: [RCF PATCH,v2,2/2] pwm: imx: Configure output to GPIO in
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 08:34:30AM +0100, Lothar Wa?mann wrote:
> Uwe Kleine-K?nig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Thierry,
> > 
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 04:25:45PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 10:51:20PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:  
> > > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 12:34:49PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:  
> [...]
> > > > Also dts writes don't need to lookup the needed GPIO numbers and pinctrl.  
> > > 
> > > Just to clarify: I don't think that we need to get the GPIO number
> > > involved in this case, because we don't have to reconfigure the pin as
> > > GPIO to make this work. The only reason that Michal's proposal did that
> > > is because that was believed to be necessary. But if the pin can just be
> > > configured with a 100k pull-up, that's enough to pull the pin high when
> > > we need it.  
> > 
> > Unless the gpio happens to be configured as output at the wrong value.
> > Further I'm not sure if the pwm in disabled state actively pulls to 0
> > and if in this state the PU of the pin is good enough to ensure a one
> > here. That would need verification first.
>
> No. You can disable the output driver via pinctrl, so that only the
> selected pull-up/down is relevant. The pin function and GPIO register
> settings don't matter at all in this case.

Is this about DSE=HI-Z in the pad control register? I didn't know about
this. I see this exists on i.MX6 but not on i.MX25. Also i.MX51 doesn't
seem to have this feature.

Best regards
Uwe

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