topic Re: Control RGB LED brightness in IMX8ULP EVK9 in i.MX Processors

Control RGB LED brightness in IMX8ULP EVK9

dhruvinrajpura — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:57:04 GMT

Hello,

I'm using IMX8ULP EVK9 and in this EVK i have one RGB LED which is connected with PTF10_TPM7_CH5, PTF27_TPM7_CH0 and PTF20_TPM5_CH1.

Now i want to control brightness of this RGB LED, how can i control what kind of changes i need to do in DTS file. please provide patch so i can apply and test on EVK.

I have added Image of schematic for your reference.

Thanks!

Re: Control RGB LED brightness in IMX8ULP EVK9

Manuel_Salas — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:23:33 GMT

Hello @dhruvinrajpura

I could see you are working with Cortex A, and you want to use tpm from cortex A here.

Unfortunately this is not possible for i.MX8ULP. You can see on device tree, there is just defined the TPM5.

Best regards,

Salas.

Re: Control RGB LED brightness in IMX8ULP EVK9

dhruvinrajpura — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 02:43:16 GMT

Hello @Manuel_Salas,

Thanks for your quick reply.

The green LED is connected to PTF20_TPM5_CH1. Can we control its brightness since it's on channel 1 of TPM5? If yes, could you share the patch and command to adjust the brightness?

Thanks!

Re: Control RGB LED brightness in IMX8ULP EVK9

Manuel_Salas — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:28:05 GMT

Hello @dhruvinrajpura

I have not the i.MX8ULP to test it by my side, but please try the below modifications on device tree:

&tpm5 { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_led1>; status = "okay"; };

And in IOMUXC:

pinctrl_led1: ledsgrp1 { fsl,pins = < MX8ULP_PAD_PTF20__TPM5_CH1 0x2 >;

Then, you should be able to see the PWM under /sys/class/pwm/.

Please try it.

Best regards,

Salas.

Re: Control RGB LED brightness in IMX8ULP EVK9

dhruvinrajpura — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:22:24 GMT

Hello @Manuel_Salas ,

I made the changes you suggested, but I still don't see a new pwmchip entry under /sys/class/pwm. I only see pwmchip0, which was already there before the changes.

root@imx8ulp-9x9-lpddr4-evk:~# ls -al /sys/class/pwm/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Mar 3 09:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 88 root root 0 Mar 3 09:49 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 3 09:49 pwmchip0 -> ../../devices/platform/pwm/pwm/pwmchip0
root@imx8ulp-9x9-lpddr4-evk:~#

Thanks!