[Arm-netbook] Testing: GPIO

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 10:02 PM, Richard Wilbur
<richard.wilbur at gmail.com> wrote:
> If we did decide to roll a v1.8 micro-desktop board, it would afford
> us the opportunity to bring two of the presently unconnected GPIO18-21
> lines to the expansion header in place of VESA_SCL and VESA_SDA (which
> are after all available on pins 15 and 12 of the VGA connector).  If
> VESA_SCL and VESA_SDA are more useful on the expansion header then, by
> all means, forget this suggestion.

 the reason i brought those out is just in case someone decided they
wanted to use them as plain GPIO.

> The other option to accommodate all our GPIO goodness would be to
> replace J5 (2x10 header) with a 2x11 or 2x12 header

 yep.

>  allowing us to
> bring all the GPIO pins to the expansion header (the only difference
> being whether we would prefer to retain VESA_SCL and VESA_SDA in the
> header).

 yes.

l.