Trying to configure GPIO pin direction, "busybox devmem" returns 0xffffffff for all addresses

Hi,

I’m trying to configure pin 29 on the 40-pin header as an input with a pullup. Evidently, there’s no API support, so we have to use busybox to manually write values to configuration registers.

The pin I want to use is 29 on the connector. This has internal names such as GPIO01 and PQ.05. When accessing it through the kernel API, this is gpio-453. And when I access it using ioctls in my code, it’s pin 105. In the pinmux spreadsheet, it’s also referred to as EXTPERIPH3_CLK and GPIO3_PQ.05, and the Verilog ball name is SOC_GPIO32. This has the full name PADCTL_G3_SOC_GPIO32_0, and the G3 padgroup is PADCTL_A0, which has a base address of 0x0234000. GPIO32 has an offset of 0x68. Therefore the address I should access is 0x02340068.

The roadblock I’m encountering is that although the instructions (Jetson AGX Orin Platform Adaptation and Bring-Up — Jetson Linux Developer Guide documentation) suggest reading the register, this is what I get:

# busybox devmem 0x02340068
0xFFFFFFFF

This can’t be right. Is there some step I’ve missed that’s supposed to explicitly enable read access to these hardware registers? Obviously I tried googling this, but I’m coming up empty.

Thanks.

Addendum: I wrote my own code to mmap /dev/mem and access memory. Absolutely every address I read returns 0xffffffff. It seems that /dev/mem isn’t working properly. I’m doing this as root. Anything I have to do do enable /dev/mem support?

Another addendum: I wrote my own code to mmap /dev/mem and access the pinmux registers. Whenever I run either my program or busybox, something like this gets added to dmesg:

[98089.048787] CPU:0, Error: cbb-fabric@0x13a00000, irq=25
[98089.054186] **************************************
[98089.059112] CPU:0, Error:cbb-fabric, Errmon:2
[98089.063596]    Error Code            : TIMEOUT_ERR

[98089.069159]    Error Code            : TIMEOUT_ERR
[98089.073188]    MASTER_ID             : CCPLEX
[98089.076684]    Address               : 0x2340068
[98089.080275]    Cache                 : 0x0 -- Device Non-Bufferable
[98089.085466]    Protection            : 0x2 -- Unprivileged, Non-Secure, Data Access
[98089.092444]    Access_Type           : Read
[98089.095933]    Access_ID             : 0x17
[98089.095934]    Fabric                : cbb-fabric
[98089.102828]    Slave_Id              : 0x35
[98089.106051]    Burst_length          : 0x0
[98089.109539]    Burst_type            : 0x1
[98089.112854]    Beat_size             : 0x2
[98089.116072]    VQC                   : 0x0
[98089.118848]    GRPSEC                : 0x7e
[98089.121895]    FALCONSEC             : 0x0
[98089.125114]  **************************************
[98089.130151] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[98089.130170] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 13354 at drivers/soc/tegra/cbb/tegra234-cbb.c:577 tegra234_cbb_isr+0x130/0x170
[98089.140534] Modules linked in: fuse nvidia_modeset(O) xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink xt_addrtype iptable_filter iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 libcrc32c br_netfilter lzo_rle lzo_compress zram overlay ramoops reed_solomon bnep snd_soc_tegra186_asrc snd_soc_tegra210_iqc aes_ce_blk snd_soc_tegra186_dspk snd_soc_tegra210_ope snd_soc_tegra186_arad crypto_simd snd_soc_tegra210_mvc cryptd snd_soc_tegra210_dmic rtk_btusb snd_soc_tegra210_afc aes_ce_cipher snd_soc_tegra210_amx snd_soc_tegra210_adx ghash_ce btusb sha2_ce btrtl snd_soc_tegra210_mixer snd_soc_tegra210_i2s snd_soc_tegra210_admaif sha256_arm64 rtl8822ce snd_soc_tegra210_adsp snd_soc_tegra210_sfc btbcm sha1_ce snd_soc_tegra_pcm snd_soc_tegra_machine_driver btintel r8168 snd_soc_tegra_utils fusb301 snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_soc_simple_card_utils snd_soc_spdif_tx r8169 snd_hda_tegra cfg80211 snd_soc_tegra210_ahub nvadsp realtek snd_hda_codec tegra210_adma userspace_alert
[98089.140661]  tegra_bpmp_thermal snd_hda_core nv_imx219 nvidia(O) spi_tegra114 binfmt_misc loop ina3221 pwm_fan nvgpu nvmap spidev ip_tables x_tables [last unloaded: mtd]
[98089.140696] CPU: 0 PID: 13354 Comm: busybox Tainted: G        W  O      5.10.104-tegra #1
[98089.140698] Hardware name: Unknown NVIDIA Orin NX Developer Kit/NVIDIA Orin NX Developer Kit, BIOS 3.0-32616947 02/21/2023
[98089.140701] pstate: 60400089 (nZCv daIf +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
[98089.140704] pc : tegra234_cbb_isr+0x130/0x170
[98089.140706] lr : tegra234_cbb_isr+0x10c/0x170
[98089.140707] sp : ffff800010003e10
[98089.140708] x29: ffff800010003e10 x28: ffff20b08026ab80
[98089.140711] x27: 0000000000000001 x26: 0000000000000080
[98089.140714] x25: ffffa2a2d36f9ed0 x24: ffffa2a2d404be40
[98089.140717] x23: ffffa2a2d39e7000 x22: 0000000000000019
[98089.140720] x21: ffffa2a2d3e6ef20 x20: 0000000000000002
[98089.140723] x19: ffffa2a2d3e6ef10 x18: 0000000000000010
[98089.140726] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffa2a2d1fe3210
[98089.140728] x15: ffff20b08026b0f0 x14: ffffffffffffffff
[98089.140731] x13: ffff800090003917 x12: ffff80001000391f
[98089.140734] x11: 0101010101010101 x10: 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f
[98089.140736] x9 : ffff800010003c30 x8 : 2a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a
[98089.140739] x7 : 2a2a2a2a2a2a2a09 x6 : c0000000ffffefff
[98089.140742] x5 : ffff20b1b1bb2958 x4 : ffffa2a2d3cf7968
[98089.140744] x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : ffffa2a2d217e170
[98089.140747] x1 : ffff20b08026ab80 x0 : 0000000100010000
[98089.140751] Call trace:
[98089.140753]  tegra234_cbb_isr+0x130/0x170
[98089.140761]  __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x68/0x2a0
[98089.140763]  handle_irq_event_percpu+0x40/0xa0
[98089.140766]  handle_irq_event+0x50/0xf0
[98089.140768]  handle_fasteoi_irq+0xc0/0x170
[98089.140772]  generic_handle_irq+0x40/0x60
[98089.140775]  __handle_domain_irq+0x70/0xd0
[98089.140778]  gic_handle_irq+0x68/0x134
[98089.140779]  el1_irq+0xd0/0x180
[98089.140787]  el0_ia+0x50/0xb0
[98089.140788]  el0_sync_handler+0x90/0xb0
[98089.140790]  el0_sync+0x16c/0x180
[98089.140793] ---[ end trace 71009e79516be4c4 ]---

Duplicate topic (Can’t switch GPIO01/PQ.05/105/453/pin-29 to input using /sys/class/gpio - Jetson & Embedded Systems / Jetson Orin Nano - NVIDIA Developer Forums)

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Thank you! I guess a little dyslexia happened there.

I’m reading 0x58 from this register. That means the following are enabled:

  • Input
  • Tristate
  • Pullup

But there is definitely no pullup on this pin. If I connect the pin to ground and then disconnect, the GPIO continues to read low. Any ideas?

Thanks again!

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