pinctrl: aspeed: Allow disabling Port D and Port E loopback mode

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Port D and port E GPIO loopback modes are commonly enabled via hardware
straps for use with front-panel buttons.  When the BMC is powered
off or fails to boot, the front-panel buttons are directly connected to
the host chipset via the loopback to allow direct power-on and reset
control. Once the BMC has booted, the loopback mode must be disabled for
the BMC to take over control of host power-on and reset.

Disabling these loopback modes requires writing to the hardware strap
register which violates the current design of assuming the system
designer chose the strap settings for a specific reason and they should
be treated as read-only. Only the two bits of the strap register related
to these loopback modes are allowed to be written and comments have been
added to explain why.

Signed-off-by: Rick Altherr <raltherr@google.com>
Acked-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

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Rick Altherr 2017-02-14 22:09:14 -08:00 • committed by Linus Walleij

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drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c

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