This series add trace events to better display GPIO changes. We'll continue in the following series by connecting LEDs to these GPIOs.
This helps me to work on a generic LED device, see: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg711917.html Since v4: Addressed Cédric review comments - Extract PCA955xClass - Add/use pca955x_pins_get_status() method instead of keeping cached value in PCA955xState Example when booting an obmc-phosphor-image, we can see the LED #14 (front-power LED) starting to blink. - ASCII LED bar view: $ qemu-system-arm -M witherspoon-bmc -trace pca955x_gpio_status 1592689902.327837:pca955x_gpio_status pca-unspecified GPIOs 0-15 [*...............] 1592689902.329934:pca955x_gpio_status pca-unspecified GPIOs 0-15 [**..............] 1592689902.330717:pca955x_gpio_status pca-unspecified GPIOs 0-15 [***.............] 1592689902.331431:pca955x_gpio_status pca-unspecified GPIOs 0-15 [****............] 1592689902.332163:pca955x_gpio_status pca-unspecified GPIOs 0-15 [****.........*..] 1592689902.332888:pca955x_gpio_status pca-unspecified GPIOs 0-15 [****.........**.] 1592689902.333629:pca955x_gpio_status pca-unspecified GPIOs 0-15 [****.........***] 1592690032.793289:pca955x_gpio_status pca-unspecified GPIOs 0-15 [****.........*.*] 1592690033.303163:pca955x_gpio_status pca-unspecified GPIOs 0-15 [****.........***] 1592690033.812962:pca955x_gpio_status pca-unspecified GPIOs 0-15 [****.........*.*] 1592690034.323234:pca955x_gpio_status pca-unspecified GPIOs 0-15 [****.........***] 1592690034.832922:pca955x_gpio_status pca-unspecified GPIOs 0-15 [****.........*.*] - Only display GPIOs which status changes: $ qemu-system-arm -M witherspoon-bmc -trace pca955x_gpio_change 1592690552.687372:pca955x_gpio_change pca1 GPIO id:0 status: 0 -> 1 1592690552.690169:pca955x_gpio_change pca1 GPIO id:1 status: 0 -> 1 1592690552.691673:pca955x_gpio_change pca1 GPIO id:2 status: 0 -> 1 1592690552.696886:pca955x_gpio_change pca1 GPIO id:3 status: 0 -> 1 1592690552.698614:pca955x_gpio_change pca1 GPIO id:13 status: 0 -> 1 1592690552.699833:pca955x_gpio_change pca1 GPIO id:14 status: 0 -> 1 1592690552.700842:pca955x_gpio_change pca1 GPIO id:15 status: 0 -> 1 1592690683.841921:pca955x_gpio_change pca1 GPIO id:14 status: 1 -> 0 1592690683.861660:pca955x_gpio_change pca1 GPIO id:14 status: 0 -> 1 1592690684.371460:pca955x_gpio_change pca1 GPIO id:14 status: 1 -> 0 1592690684.882115:pca955x_gpio_change pca1 GPIO id:14 status: 0 -> 1 1592690685.391411:pca955x_gpio_change pca1 GPIO id:14 status: 1 -> 0 1592690685.901391:pca955x_gpio_change pca1 GPIO id:14 status: 0 -> 1 For information about how to test the obmc-phosphor-image, see: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg712911.html $ git backport-diff -u v4 Key: [----] : patches are identical [####] : number of functional differences between upstream/downstream patch [down] : patch is downstream-only The flags [FC] indicate (F)unctional and (C)ontextual differences, respectively 001/9:[----] [--] 'hw/i2c/core: Add i2c_try_create_slave() and i2c_realize_and_unref()' 002/9:[down] 'hw/misc/pca9552: Rename 'nr_leds' as 'pin_count'' 003/9:[down] 'hw/misc/pca9552: Rename generic code as pca955x' 004/9:[down] 'hw/misc/pca9552: Add generic PCA955xClass, parent of TYPE_PCA9552' 005/9:[0007] [FC] 'hw/misc/pca9552: Add a 'description' property for debugging purpose' 006/9:[0031] [FC] 'hw/misc/pca9552: Trace GPIO High/Low events' 007/9:[----] [--] 'hw/arm/aspeed: Describe each PCA9552 device' 008/9:[0008] [FC] 'hw/misc/pca9552: Trace GPIO change events' 009/9:[0005] [FC] 'hw/misc/pca9552: Model qdev output GPIOs' Based-on: <20200620162818.22340-1-f4...@amsat.org> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (9): hw/i2c/core: Add i2c_try_create_slave() and i2c_realize_and_unref() hw/misc/pca9552: Rename 'nr_leds' as 'pin_count' hw/misc/pca9552: Rename generic code as pca955x hw/misc/pca9552: Add generic PCA955xClass, parent of TYPE_PCA9552 hw/misc/pca9552: Add a 'description' property for debugging purpose hw/misc/pca9552: Trace GPIO High/Low events hw/arm/aspeed: Describe each PCA9552 device hw/misc/pca9552: Trace GPIO change events hw/misc/pca9552: Model qdev output GPIOs include/hw/i2c/i2c.h | 2 + include/hw/misc/pca9552.h | 16 +-- hw/arm/aspeed.c | 13 ++- hw/i2c/core.c | 18 +++- hw/misc/pca9552.c | 216 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- hw/misc/trace-events | 4 + 6 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-) -- 2.21.3