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PIO FIFO debug flags and interrupt support#7502

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@pelwell pelwell commented Jul 15, 2026

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Add support for querying and clearing the FIFO debug/error flags, and for using PIO interrupts, both within the kernel and from the userspace piolib. This needs an RP1 firmware update, and a piolib update for userspace support.

pelwell added 4 commits July 18, 2026 22:58
Fix a few issues discovered after testing the kernel API with a port of
the userspace apitest app.

Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.com>
pio_sm_get_dmactrl is the reverse of pio_sm_set_dmactrl.
pio_sm_get_flags allows the FIFO error flags - txoverflow, rxunderflow,
txstall and rxstall - to be polled, cleared, and optionally waited for.

Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.com>
The PIO block exposes 2 assignable interrupts. Make them available to
kernel and userspace PIO applications.

Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.com>
The PIO hardware drives 2 interrupt lines - declare them.

Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.com>
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pelwell commented Jul 21, 2026

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PR updated with non-blocking support for the blocking operations, and a PIO-based UART driver.

pelwell added 4 commits July 21, 2026 22:39
The piolib API has three blocking operations:
* pio_sm_get_blocking
* pio_sm_put_blocking
* pio_sm_exec_wait_blocking

Rather than blocking in the firmware, stalling the whole API, allow
the firmware to return EAGAIN to indicate that it has not completed.
With a small change on each side it then becomes possible to poll for
completion, allowing other operations to continue in the meantime.

Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.com>
This is a tty driver that implements a UART using RP1's PIO block,
ported from pico-examples/pio/uart_dma. Like that example, it is
limited to 8N1, with no hardware flow control.

Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.com>
Enable building the RP1 PIO UART for all kernels that support the Pi 5.

Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.com>
An overlay to enable the PIO-based UART.

Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.com>
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