Subject: [PATCH RESEND 0/6 v10] gpio: Add block GPIO

From: [email-masked] (Roland Stigge)
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:02:45 +0100

On 12/17/2012 06:37 PM, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> 	/* Do synchronous data output with a single write access */
> 	__raw_writel(~mask, pio + PIO_OWDR);
> 	__raw_writel(mask, pio + PIO_OWER);
> 	__raw_writel(val, pio + PIO_ODSR);
> 
> For caching we would need a storage. Not sure if it's worth compared to
> a context switch into the kernel.

Block GPIO is not only for you in userspace. ;-) You can also implement
efficient n-bit bus I/O in kernel drivers, n-bit-banging. :-) So not
always context switches involved.

Roland