[PATCH v6 0/2] Input: add support for OnePlus/OPPO Pad pogo-pin keyboards
From: wyibo6109
Date: Fri Oct 16 2026 - 13:15:19 EST
From: Yibo Wang <wyibo6109@xxxxxxxxx>
This series adds support for the magnetic pogo-pin smart keyboards of
the OnePlus Pad 3 Pro / Pad 4 and the OPPO Pad 5 Pro. The keyboard is
built around a Tinno MCU attached to a tablet UART. Both sides share a
single data wire, so the host gates its transmission onto the bus with a
PMIC GPIO for the duration of a frame, and every host frame is echoed
back on RX.
The MCU speaks a framed "one wire bus" protocol over the half-duplex
921600 8N1 UART: 8x 0x55 preamble, 0xF1, src/dst addresses, command,
length, payload, CRC16-IBM (poly 0x8005, init 0xC596), 0xFE and 4x 0xAA.
The protocol was reverse engineered from the vendor kernel driver; this
is a clean-room serdev reimplementation that replaces the downstream
platform driver, which depends on a private msm_geni_serial callback and
a user-space held tty fd.
The core protocol (framing, keys, touchpad, sync/heartbeat) has been
carried unchanged across four SoC generations of these keyboards, from
the sm8550 era to the sm8850 ones covered here; only the 0x3A general
sub-commands grew over time. Patch 1 adds the DT binding, patch 2 the
driver.
Changes in v6:
- disclose the AI assistance in preparing the binding documentation
with an Assisted-by trailer; no functional change.
Changes in v5, addressing Rob Herring's comments on the binding:
- dropped the block scalar from the top-level description;
- rewrapped the descriptions to stay within 75 columns;
- restored the serial parent node in the example.
Changes in v4, after Krzysztof Kozlowski's comment that the binding
describes the keyboard rather than the MCU (wording only, no functional
change):
- the binding description and the commit messages now describe the
keyboard (built around the Tinno MCU) instead of the MCU itself, and
spell out that a keyboard is a fixed physical device, so the touchpad
geometry and the product names are per-compatible constants in the
driver.
Changes in v3:
- the compatible names the tablet project the pogo port belongs to
(oneplus,caihong- / erhai- / iceland-pogo-keyboard, the codenames
used by the vendor trees), and the driver carries a per-project
description in the OF match data: feature flags gate each 0x3A
general sub-command (caihong, sm8650 era, has no wake notification
and no backlight; erhai, sm8750 era, adds the wake notification;
iceland, sm8850 era, adds the keyboard backlight), while the touchpad
geometry and the per-brand product names are per-project constants -
the wake notification is skipped and the backlight LED only
registered where supported;
- the touchpad geometry and product names are no longer DT properties:
they are fixed per project and live in the driver; the common
touchscreen properties (touchscreen-size-x/y, touchscreen-x-mm/y-mm)
remain as an optional override, parsed with
touchscreen_parse_properties(), for the unlikely case of a variant.
Changes in v2:
- dropped the redundant "binding" from the dt-bindings subject;
- replaced the custom oneplus,touchpad-xy-max/-resolution properties
with the common touchscreen properties;
- dropped the serial wrapper node from the binding example;
- the MAINTAINERS entry added with the binding references only the
binding file; the driver F: line is added together with the driver
patch.
Tested on the OnePlus Pad 4 (iceland) running Linux 7.2.0-sm8850
(v7.2-based iceland tree).
The binding documentation was prepared with the assistance of an AI
agent; the technical content was reviewed, adjusted and validated by
the author.
Assisted-by: Z.ai:GLM-5.3
Yibo Wang (2):
dt-bindings: input: add OnePlus pogo-pin keyboard
Input: add OnePlus/OPPO Pad pogo-pin keyboard serdev driver
.../bindings/input/oneplus,pogo-keyboard.yaml | 76 +
MAINTAINERS | 7 +
drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig | 13 +
drivers/input/keyboard/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/input/keyboard/oneplus-pogo-kbd.c | 1263 +++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 1360 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/oneplus,pogo-keyboard.yaml
create mode 100644 drivers/input/keyboard/oneplus-pogo-kbd.c
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