Calculating GPIO Index in Linux

The following section describes how to calculate the GPIO index:

  1. The Orin GPIOs are grouped in banks and each bank has up to 8 pins. The bank and the pin information of a GPIO is fundamental for calculating its index.

    GPIO is represented as X.Y, where:

    • X encodes the bank and can have the following values: PA, PB, …, PY or PAA, ... PFF as listed in table below..

    For the banks with naming scheme P*, the "P" must be ignored, i.e., "PA" refers to bank A.

    • Y encodes the pin within a bank. For example, 00 for pin 0, 01 for pin 1, …, and 07 for pin 7.

  2. The banks are associated to a base and can also be sequentially translated into a bank_index as shown in the table below:

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    The base numbering may change in cases where customization is done in kernel and can be identified using the dmesg log:
    nvidia@tegra-ubuntu:~$ sudo dmesg | grep gpiochip
[ 9.965908] gpiochip0: registered GPIOs 348 to 511 on tegra234-gpio
[ 9.970024] gpiochip1: registered GPIOs 316 to 347 on tegra234-gpio-aon

    The base is 348 for tegra234-gpio and 316 for tegra234-gpio-aon from the above log.

  3. The GPIO index can be calculated as: GPIO_index = base + bank_start_index + pin.

    The following is an example of calculating the GPIO index for PS.05.

    1. PS.05 represents bank S and pin 5.
    2. Bank S has bank_index 113 and base 348(tegra-gpio base)
    3. GPIO index is 466 (466 = 348 + 113 + 5)