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authorbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2015-06-30 09:34:59 +0000
committerbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2015-06-30 09:34:59 +0000
commit08db5976f58ab7ca4b1d298926550c92bf256097 (patch)
treeea82759f387552e5fa9df49918960be281da2d2f
parent1ab2e62a0ddd6a48aef46d680d19645448c42231 (diff)
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MFC: r262233
Spelling, grammar and mdoc cleanup.
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/gpio.430
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/gpio.4 b/share/man/man4/gpio.4
index f0bd8a3..119f938 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/gpio.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/gpio.4
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ following lines in your kernel configuration file:
.Pp
Additional device entries for the
.Li ARM
-architecure include:
+architecture include:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Cd "device a10_gpio"
.Cd "device bcm_gpio"
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ architecure include:
.Pp
Additional device entries for the
.Li MIPS
-architecure include:
+architecture include:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Cd "device ar71xxx_gpio"
.Cd "device octeon_gpio"
@@ -67,14 +67,14 @@ architecure include:
.Pp
Additional device entries for the
.Li POWERPC
-architecure include:
+architecture include:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Cd "device wiigpio"
.Cd "device macgpio"
.Ed
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
-.Em gpiobus
+.Nm
system provides a simple interface to the GPIO pins that are usually
available on embedded architectures and can provide bit banging style
devices to the system.
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ for input/output, IRQ delivery, SDA/SCL
.Em iicbus
use, etc.
.Pp
-On some embedded architechtures (like MIPS), discovery of the bus and
+On some embedded architectures (like MIPS), discovery of the bus and
configuration of the pins is done via
.Xr device.hints 5
in the platform's kernel
@@ -101,28 +101,30 @@ On some others (like ARM), where
is used to describe the device tree, the bus discovery is done via the DTS
passed to the kernel, being either statically compiled in, or by a variety
of ways where the boot loader (or Open Firmware enabled system) passes the
-DTS blob to kernel at boot.
+DTS blob to the kernel at boot.
.Pp
-The following are only provided by the
+The following
+.Xr device.hints 5
+are only provided by the
.Cd ar71xx_gpio
-driver.
+driver:
.Bl -tag -width ".Va hint.gpioiic.%d.atXXX"
.It Va hint.gpio.%d.pinmask
-This is a bitmask of pins on the gpio board that we would like to expose
-for use to the host o/s.
+This is a bitmask of pins on the GPIO board that we would like to expose
+for use to the host operating system.
To expose pin 0, 4 and 7, use the bitmask of
10010001 converted to the hexadecimal value 0x0091.
.It Va hint.gpio.%d.pinon
-This is a bitmask of pins on the gpio board that will be set to ON at host
+This is a bitmask of pins on the GPIO board that will be set to ON at host
start.
To set pin 2, 5 and 13 to be set ON at boot, use the bitmask of
10000000010010 converted to the hexadecimal value 0x2012.
.It Va hint.gpio.function_set
.It Va hint.gpio.function_clear
-These are a bitmask of pins that will remap a pin to handle a specific
+These are bitmasks of pins that will remap a pin to handle a specific
function (USB, UART TX/RX, etc) in the Atheros function registers.
-This is mainly used to set/clear functions that we need when they are setup or
-not setup by uBoot.
+This is mainly used to set/clear functions that we need when they are set up or
+not set up by uBoot.
.El
.Pp
Simply put, each pin of the GPIO interface is connected to an input/output
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