Reading A20 LRADC0 and LRADC1 values

[PaddleStroke 2]

Hey guys,

 

I'm trying to find a way to read the values of the LRADC0 and LRADC1 of the A20.

 

Those ADC are usually used for android-style buttons (labeled "VOL+", "VOL-", "MENU", "SEARCH", "HOME", "ESC" and "ENTER") which are connected to a low-resolution ADC via a resistor network.

 

But I want to use the ADC for another purpose and I just need to read values between 0 and 63.

 

Now it seems there is already a driver which let you setup the android-style buttons in the DTS (as can be seen in this patch)

But I can't find the code of this driver, which I could use as a template.

 

Any idea how to find the driver ? Or on how to read the LRADC values from a python script directly?

 

Thanks!

 

Related, for reference : https://www.olimex.com/forum/index.php?topic=4281.0

https://www.olimex.com/forum/index.php?topic=2425.0

 

Edit: I think I found the driver : https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/input/keyboard/sun4i-lradc-keys.c

To be continued.

 

[martinayotte 678]

31 minutes ago, PaddleStroke said:

Or on how to read the LRADC values from a python script directly?

Using /dev/mem, you can poke control register at 0x01C22800 to be in continuous mode, and then peek data register to read ADC values at 0x01C2280C or 0x01C2280D, depending if LRADC0 or LRADC1.

[PaddleStroke 2]

On 8/27/2020 at 4:11 PM, martinayotte said:

Using /dev/mem, you can poke control register at 0x01C22800 to be in continuous mode, and then peek data register to read ADC values at 0x01C2280C or 0x01C2280D, depending if LRADC0 or LRADC1.

Hi! Thanks for your reply ! 
I had to put that on hold for some time, but I'm back on it.

 

After checking the A20 user manual I find that the offset for LRADC1 is 0x10 and not 0x0D. So I guess you meant 0x01C22810 for LRADC1?

So I should be doing something like : 

 

fd = open("/dev/mem",  "r+")
mem = mmap.mmap(fd.fileno(), 16, 0x01C22800 )
close(fd)

while(we need to get the values):
   mem.seek(0x0C)
   LRADC0_byte = mem.read(1) 
   mem.seek(0x10) 
   LRADC1_byte = mem.read(1)
   
   //further process the values

mem.close()

Does that sounds correct to you?

 

[martinayotte 678]

13 minutes ago, PaddleStroke said:

So I should be doing something like :

Right, but don't forget to initialize Control Register first by setting Continuous Rate and Continuous Mode...

[PaddleStroke 2]

1 hour ago, martinayotte said:

Right, but don't forget to initialize Control Register first by setting Continuous Rate and Continuous Mode...

Could you please tell me how to do this? I don't know what is the control register nor how to initialize it.

[martinayotte 678]

48 minutes ago, PaddleStroke said:

Could you please tell me how to do this? I don't know what is the control register nor how to initialize it.

Download this UserGuide : http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/A20/A20 User Manual 2013-03-22.pdf

Read the LRADC chapter starting at page 192.

You will see the description of the ControlRegister at page 193-194.

You need your /dev/mem to be "O_RDWR", not "R+" to allow writing into ControlRegister.

[PaddleStroke 2]

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You need your /dev/mem to be "O_RDWR", not "R+" to allow writing into ControlRegister.

Thanks!

I can now read the values of the LRADC. Now I have only one issue left is that my python script does not have permission to read /dev/mem when it's started automatically at launch.

 

I had the same permission issue when trying to read AXP209 ADC, which we solved by using a .rule file in etc/udev/rules.

I tried to add one line for /dev/mem but I think I'm missing something here.

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="iio", RUN+="/bin/chmod g+w /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_voltage3_scale"
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="iio", RUN+="/bin/chmod g+w /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_voltage4_scale"
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="iio", RUN+="/bin/chmod g+w /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_voltage3_raw"
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="iio", RUN+="/bin/chmod g+w /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_voltage4_raw"
ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/chmod g+w /dev/mem"

 

I also tried : 

 

sudo chmod 777 /dev/men
and
sudo usermod -g kmem pi

Then I have a different error "[Errno1] Operation not permitted: '/dev/mem'

 

 

The working python script for reference : 

#!/usr/bin/env python

from time import sleep

import os, sys, mmap

DZONE2 = 6 # dead zone applied to joystick (mV)
VREF2 = 40 # max value read when moving joystick to max.
JOYOFFVAL2 = 60 # Value reads 63 when not working


#LRADC base register address = 0x01C22800 (cf A20 manual page 193)
MAP_MASK = mmap.PAGESIZE -1
addr = 0x01C22800
fd = os.open("/dev/mem",  os.O_RDWR | os.O_SYNC)
mem = mmap.mmap(fd, mmap.PAGESIZE, mmap.MAP_SHARED, offset= addr & ~MAP_MASK)
os.close(fd)

#using mem.write_byte to write the 4 bytes of the control register one by one does not work. read_byte one by one also do not work. You need to read the 4 at once. So the following does not work : 
#mem.seek(addr & MAP_MASK)
#mem.write_byte(chr(int('01111001', 2)))
#mem.write_byte(chr(int('00100000', 2)))
#mem.write_byte(chr(int('11000000', 2)))
#mem.write_byte(chr(int('00000001', 2)))

#The correct way to do it is to add the 4 bytes together as follow : 
mem.seek(addr & MAP_MASK)
byte_data = [121, 32, 192, 1]
mem.write("".join(map(chr, byte_data)))
#121 = 0111 1001 is for bit 7 to 0 of the first byte (0x01C22800). Bit 6 and 5 '11' are for reference voltage to use, here 11 = 1.6V. Bit 0 is to activate the LRADC.
#32 = 0010 0000 is for bit 7 to 0 of the 2nd byte (0x01C22801). Bit 13 and 12 '10' are for continuous mode.
#192 = 1100 0000 is for bit 7 to 0 of the 3rd byte (0x01C22802). Bit 23 and 22 '11' are to enable both LRADC0 and LRADC1.
#1 = 0000 0001 is default value. 


mem.seek(addr & MAP_MASK)
print("bytes")
ciuy = mem.read(4) 
print(' '.join(format(ord(x), 'b') for x in ciuy))

while True:

	mem.seek((0x01C2280C)& MAP_MASK)	# register offset for LRADC0 = 0x0C
	joystick2_UD = ord(mem.read_byte()) #should be between 0 and 63 (6 bits)

	mem.seek((0x01C22810)& MAP_MASK)	# register offset for LRADC1 = 0x10
	joystick2_LR = ord(mem.read_byte()) #should be between 0 and 63 (6 bits)


	
	if (joystick2_LR > (VREF2/2 + DZONE2)) or (joystick2_LR < (VREF2/2 - DZONE2)):
		#print(' '.join(format(ord(x), 'b') for x in joystick2_LR))
		print("Right Joystick LR : ", joystick2_LR)
		
	if (joystick2_UD > (VREF2/2 + DZONE2)) or (joystick2_UD < (VREF2/2 - DZONE2)):
		#print(' '.join(format(ord(x), 'b') for x in joystick2_UD))
		print("Right Joystick UD : ", joystick2_UD)
		
	
	
	
	sleep(.2)
	
mem.close()

 

[martinayotte 678]

1 hour ago, PaddleStroke said:

my python script does not have permission to read /dev/mem

You can try a workaround by doing "cp /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python-sudo ; chmod a+s /usr/bin/python-sudo" so that execution will be done as root.

[PaddleStroke 2]

Thanks!

I went with

chmod a+s /usr/bin/python

And it's working now!

Thanks again for your support.

 

I think I should make a proper gamepad kernel module rather than this python script.

 

For reference, the python script is launched as a service in systemd.

 

By the way I made a video on the hardware part of prototyping, maybe it will interest some people