Mesa 7i93 firmware for 3 axes 2PWM and 38GPIO

Hello community

Had specific purpose to have as many GPIO on 7i93 as possible after 3 axes and 2PWM left. So build custom firmware for 7i93 and it has:
3 Axes - Step/DIR
2 PWM
all the rest - 38 are GPIO

can you please mail this to mesa so it can be put into the download

maybe other people are faced with the same problem

and WHY did you change it what is your special need
24 Gpio free available shoudt be enoph for standard users

as you killed the 2 encoders
so no return from the spindle as encoder internal 4Mhz
the Gpio are mutch slower then the original setup

Honestly I didn't tried to manipulate with HAL settings trying to disable unwanted encoders furthermore querying firmware it reports encoders being enabled in previous firmware so I hardcoded then in modified version as GPIOs. Also are you sure that by setting encoders to 0 will they become available as GPIOs?

Yes, if you disable the special feature (encoder, stepgen, PWM etc) for a pin,
it always reverts to GPIO.

The limitation is that the driver can only specify the number of enabled instances.
For example, setting num_encoders to 3 enables encoders 0,1,2 on whatever pins they
are assigned in the firmware and any pins for encoders 3,4,5 etc revert to GPIO.

So depending on the firmwares ordering of encoder (stepgen pwmgen etc) instances
you may not be able to free up the pins you need

The firmware does allow pin by pin selection of GPIO vs special function but the driver
adopts a simple selection scheme to avoid overly complex command line options.