From: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>
To: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
Weiyi Lu <weiyi.lu@mediatek.com>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, drinkcat@chromium.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fparent@baylibre.com,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, hsinyi@chromium.org,
Collabora Kernel ML <kernel@collabora.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] soc: mediatek: pm-domains: Add new driver for SCPSYS power domains controller
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 15:57:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <181df5c6-9046-5273-879b-ed0d1a59c8b3@collabora.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f2185b28-0b1f-8cf9-8717-12e28cf2bbf0@gmail.com>
Hi,
On 9/10/20 14:50, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>
>
> On 06/10/2020 08:53, Weiyi Lu wrote:
>> On Fri, 2020-09-25 at 16:04 +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>>>
>>> On 25/09/2020 12:06, Weiyi Lu wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2020-09-10 at 19:28 +0200, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> This is a new driver with the aim to deprecate the mtk-scpsys driver.
>>>>> The problem with that driver is that, in order to support more Mediatek
>>>>> SoCs you need to add some logic to handle properly the power-up
>>>>> sequence of newer Mediatek SoCs, doesn't handle parent-child power
>>>>> domains and need to hardcode all the clocks in the driver itself. The
>>>>> result is that the driver is getting bigger and bigger every time a
>>>>> new SoC needs to be supported.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Enric and Matthias,
>>>>
>>>> First of all, thank you for the patch. But I'm worried the problem you
>>>> mentioned won't be solved even if we work on this new driver in the
>>>> future. My work on the MT8183 scpsys(now v17) is to implement the new
>>>> hardware logic. Here, I also see related patches, which means that these
>>>> new logics are necessary. Why can't we work on the original driver?
>>>
>>> Well the decision was to change the driver in a not compatible way to make
>>> device tree entries better. If we work on the old driver, we would need to find
>>> some creative ways to handle old bindings vs new bindings.
>>>
>>> So I thought it would be better doing a fresh start implementing mt1873 support
>>> for reference and add mt8183 as new SoC. From what I have seen mt8192 and others
>>> fit the driver structure too.
>>>
>>>> Meanwhile, I thought maybe we should separate the driver into general
>>>> control and platform data for each SoC, otherwise it'll keep getting
>>>> bigger and bigger if it need to be support new SoC.
>>>>
>>>
>>> We could in a later series split the SoC depended data structures and put them
>>> in drivers/soc/mediatek/pm-domains-mt8183.h or something like this. Is that what
>>> you mean?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, that is what I want. And I guess it could avoid the collisions in
>> the different defines to the control registers and power status bits you
>> mentioned. Hope this will happen in this series.
>>
>
> Sounds good to me. Enric could you move the soc specific data to separate
> include files?
>
Sure, I'll do this in v4.
Thanks,
Enric
> Regards,
> Matthias
>
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-10 17:28 [PATCH 00/12] soc: mediatek: pm-domains: Add new driver for SCPSYS power domains controller Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-10 17:28 ` [PATCH 01/12] dt-bindings: power: Add bindings for the Mediatek " Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-11 23:02 ` Rob Herring
2020-09-14 8:59 ` Matthias Brugger
2020-09-14 9:49 ` Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-22 22:36 ` Rob Herring
2020-09-23 16:12 ` Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-10 17:28 ` [PATCH 02/12] soc: mediatek: Add MediaTek SCPSYS power domains Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-25 10:25 ` Weiyi Lu
2020-09-25 10:43 ` Matthias Brugger
2020-09-10 17:28 ` [PATCH 03/12] arm64: dts: mediatek: Add mt8173 power domain controller Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-18 20:20 ` Fabien Parent
2020-09-18 20:50 ` Enric Balletbo Serra
2020-09-10 17:28 ` [PATCH 04/12] soc: mediatek: pm-domains: Add bus protection protocol Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-10 17:28 ` [PATCH 05/12] soc: mediatek: pm_domains: Make bus protection generic Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-10 17:28 ` [PATCH 06/12] soc: mediatek: pm-domains: Add SMI block as bus protection block Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-25 10:45 ` Weiyi Lu
2020-09-25 11:01 ` Matthias Brugger
2020-09-10 17:28 ` [PATCH 07/12] soc: mediatek: pm-domains: Add extra sram control Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-10 18:27 ` Matthias Brugger
2020-10-26 15:16 ` Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-10 17:28 ` [PATCH 08/12] soc: mediatek: pm-domains: Add subsystem clocks Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-25 10:55 ` Weiyi Lu
2020-09-25 12:20 ` Matthias Brugger
2020-09-10 17:28 ` [PATCH 09/12] soc: mediatek: pm-domains: Allow bus protection to ignore clear ack Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-10 17:28 ` [PATCH 10/12] dt-bindings: power: Add MT8183 power domains Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-10 17:28 ` [PATCH 11/12] soc: mediatek: pm-domains: Add support for mt8183 Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-16 9:46 ` Matthias Brugger
2020-09-16 12:19 ` Matthias Brugger
2020-09-25 7:37 ` Hsin-Yi Wang
2020-09-25 8:21 ` Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-25 9:07 ` Matthias Brugger
2020-09-10 17:28 ` [PATCH 12/12] arm64: dts: mediatek: Add mt8183 power domains controller Enric Balletbo i Serra
2020-09-25 10:06 ` [PATCH 00/12] soc: mediatek: pm-domains: Add new driver for SCPSYS " Weiyi Lu
2020-09-25 14:04 ` Matthias Brugger
2020-10-06 6:53 ` Weiyi Lu
2020-10-09 12:50 ` Matthias Brugger
2020-10-09 13:57 ` Enric Balletbo i Serra [this message]
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