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AM62P: PWM Pins

Part Number: AM62P

Hi I'was tryng to test my pwm control pins, but they didn't respond.

I have this on my device tree 

&epwm2{
	status = "okay";
};

&epwm1{
	status = "okay";
};

&main_pmx0{
	bootph-all;
	pinctrl-names = "default";
	pinctrl-0 = <&backlight_pwm_pins_default>,<&myepwm1_pins_default>;

	backlight_pwm_pins_default: bl-pwm-pins-default {
		pinctrl-single,pins = <
			AM62PX_IOPAD(0x0124, PIN_INPUT, 4) /* (J25) CN1/19 - PINO14 - MMC2_SDCD.EHRPWM2_A - PWM_BCKL_TFT */
		>;
	};

	myepwm1_pins_default: myepwm1-default-pins {
		pinctrl-single,pins = <
			AM62PX_IOPAD(0x01b4, PIN_INPUT, 2) /* (D20) SPI0_CS0.EHRPWM0_A */
		>;
	};
};

and with the board power on i've tried to run this commands to test my pins

root@am62p-lohr:~# ls -l /sys/class/pwm
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May 29 18:48 pwmchip0 -> ../../devices/platform/bus@f0000/23000000.pwm/pwm/pwmchip0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May 29 18:48 pwmchip2 -> ../../devices/platform/bus@f0000/23010000.pwm/pwm/pwmchip2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May 29 18:48 pwmchip4 -> ../../devices/platform/bus@f0000/23020000.pwm/pwm/pwmchip4

echo 0 > /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip4/export
echo 1000000 > /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip4/pwm0/period
echo 500000 > /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip4/pwm0/duty_cycle
echo 1 > /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip4/pwm0/enable
echo 0 > /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip2/export
echo 1000000 > /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip2/pwm0/period
echo 500000 > /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip2/pwm0/duty_cycle
echo 1 > /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip2/pwm0/enable

and neither of then had frequency.

is there anything missing or any test that I can do?

Br


  • Hello Sergio,

    You can find our documentation on testing PWM in the Linux SDK docs:
    https://software-dl.ti.com/processor-sdk-linux/esd/AM62PX/11_00_09_04/exports/docs/linux/Foundational_Components/Kernel/Kernel_Drivers/PWM.html

    If you've got a TI EVM, I would suggest trying to test PWM on that first. Once you figure out exactly how to do it, then you can port the tests to your custom hardware. That also allows us to replicate your observations if you find a bug or some other issue in our code.

    Regards,

    Nick

  • Hello 

    I've already done that in a TI EVM AM62P, and it had worked. Now using my custom board it hasn't worked.
    Yesterday I've conducted some tests by debugging the PWM Driver and it appear to be working OK, but when I measure on the board, there was no signal at all.

    Regards,

  • here some extract on my device tree

    /{
         backlight: backlight {
              compatible = "pwm-backlight";
              pinctrl-names = "default";
              pinctrl-0 = <&backlight_pins_default>;
              brightness-levels = <0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
              21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
              41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
              61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
              81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100
              101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120
              121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140
              141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160
              161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180
              181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200
              201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220
              221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240
              241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255>;
              default-brightness-level = <100>;
              enable-gpios = <&main_gpio0 6 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; //STB_TFT_DISP
              pwms = <&epwm2 0 2000000 0>;
              status = "okay";
         };

    };

    &main_pmx0{

         bootph-all;

         backlight_pins_default: bl-pins-default {
              pinctrl-single,pins = <
                   AM62PX_IOPAD(0x0018, PIN_INPUT, 7) /* (M24) CN1/19 - PINO23 - OSPI0_D3.GPIO0_6 - STB_TFT_DISP*/
                   AM62PX_IOPAD(0x0124, PIN_INPUT, 4) /* (J25) CN1/19 - PINO14 - MMC2_SDCD.EHRPWM2_A - PWM_BCKL_TFT */
              >;
         };

    };

    &epwm2{
         status = "okay";
    };


    Any thoughts about it?

    Att. 



  • Hello Sergio,

    For all your pinmux settings, you have it set to PIN_INPUT. PWM signals are output signals, please try again with PIN_OUTPUT.

    Regards,

    Nick

  • I managed to fix the problem.