Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261693AbVBOMCI (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:02:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261694AbVBOMCI (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:02:08 -0500 Received: from static64-74.dsl-blr.eth.net ([61.11.64.74]:31237 "EHLO linmail.globaledgesoft.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261693AbVBOMCF (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:02:05 -0500 Message-ID: <4211E434.7060405@globaledgesoft.com> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:29:48 +0530 From: krishna User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Subject: What is the purpose of GPIO pins. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 445 Lines: 13 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/