Coldfire MCF5272 - GPIO pin at reset

The MCF5272 manual says in the  Overview section corresponding to GPIO that
"To avoid indeterminate read values and reduce power consumption, internal
pull-up resistors are active immediately upon reset, and remain active until
the corresponding port direction registers are programmed".

 

Which we understand means that GPIO pins are driven to a known state at
reset by the pull-up resistors.

 

We want to take advantage of this fact (GPIO pin known state at reset) but
wanted to check with the group to make sure we understand this statement
correctly and see if anyone has any experience with this.

 

Thanks,

 

Martin