Re: [PATCH 5/6] ARM: dts: sunxi: Add Allwinner H3 DTSI

From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
To: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
Cc: "Jens Kuske" <jenskuske@gmail.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	"Vishnu Patekar" <vishnupatekar0510@gmail.com>,
	"Emilio López" <emilio@elopez.com.ar>,
	"Michael Turquette" <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
	linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Hans de Goede" <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
	"Chen-Yu Tsai" <wens@csie.org>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	"Philipp Zabel" <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>,
	"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] ARM: dts: sunxi: Add Allwinner H3 DTSI
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 09:13:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151024071328.GQ10947@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151023212013.50bcbe4a@OPI2>

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On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 09:20:13PM +0200, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 20:14:06 +0200
> Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 06:20:27PM +0200, Jens Kuske wrote:
> > > +		bus_gates: clk@01c20060 {
> > > +			#clock-cells = <1>;
> > > +			compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-h3-bus-gates-clk";
> > > +			reg = <0x01c20060 0x14>;
> > > +			clock-indices = <5>, <6>, <8>,
> > > +					<9>, <10>, <13>,
> > > +					<14>, <17>, <18>,
> > > +					<19>, <20>,
> > > +					<21>, <23>,
> > > +					<24>, <25>,
> > > +					<26>, <27>,
> > > +					<28>, <29>,
> > > +					<30>, <31>, <32>,
> > > +					<35>, <36>, <37>,
> > > +					<40>, <41>, <43>,
> > > +					<44>, <52>, <53>,
> > > +					<54>, <64>,
> > > +					<65>, <69>, <72>,
> > > +					<76>, <77>, <78>,
> > > +					<96>, <97>, <98>,
> > > +					<112>, <113>,
> > > +					<114>, <115>, <116>,
> > > +					<128>, <135>;
> > > +			clocks = <&ahb1>, <&ahb1>, <&ahb1>,
> > > +				 <&ahb1>, <&ahb1>, <&ahb1>,
> > > +				 <&ahb1>, <&ahb2>, <&ahb1>,
> > > +				 <&ahb1>, <&ahb1>,
> > > +				 <&ahb1>, <&ahb1>,
> > > +				 <&ahb1>, <&ahb1>,
> > > +				 <&ahb1>, <&ahb1>,
> > > +				 <&ahb1>, <&ahb2>,
> > > +				 <&ahb2>, <&ahb2>, <&ahb1>,
> > > +				 <&ahb1>, <&ahb1>, <&ahb1>,
> > > +				 <&ahb1>, <&ahb1>, <&ahb1>,
> > > +				 <&ahb1>, <&ahb1>, <&ahb1>,
> > > +				 <&ahb1>, <&apb1>,
> > > +				 <&apb1>, <&apb1>, <&apb1>,
> > > +				 <&apb1>, <&apb1>, <&apb1>,
> > > +				 <&apb2>, <&apb2>, <&apb2>,
> > > +				 <&apb2>, <&apb2>,
> > > +				 <&apb2>, <&apb2>, <&apb2>,
> > > +				 <&ahb1>, <&ahb1>;  
> > 
> > This is not really what I had in mind...
> > 
> > This IP has 2 parents, and only two parents. The mapping between the
> > IPs should be done in the driver itself, not in the DT where it is
> > very error prone and barely readable.
> > 
> > And note that I never have expected you to use clk-simple-gates
> > either. This is a complicated clock, unlike the other we've seen so
> > far, it definitely deserves a driver of its own.
> 
> It seems that Allwinner puts the gate definitions anywhere in the array
> of registers, so, I think that the H3 scheme will not be the last
> complicated one,

Maybe, but that's the first one. It doesn't prevent us from reusing
the driver later if it happens.

> and if the parent clocks are in the code instead of in the DT, we
> will have more and more code to develop.

I never asked that either.

> An other way to describe the gates would be to add containers per parent
> (with still a small patch in the clk-simple-gates):
> 
> 	bus_gates: clk@01c20060 {
> 		#clock-cells = <1>;
> 		compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-h3-bus-gates-clk";
> 		reg = <0x01c20060 0x14>;
> 		ahb1_gates {
> 			clocks = <&ahb1>;
> 			clock-indices = <5>, <6>, <8>,
> 					<9>, <10>, <13>,
> 					<14>, <18>,
> 					<19>, <20>,
> 					...;
> 			};
> 			clock-output-names = "ahb1_ce", "ahb1_dma", "ahb1_mmc0",
> 				"ahb1_mmc1", "ahb1_mmc2", "ahb1_nand",
> 				"ahb1_sdram", "ahb1_ts",
> 				"ahb1_hstimer", "ahb1_spi0",
> 				...;
> 		};
> 		ahb2_gates {
> 			clocks = <&ahb2>;
> 			clock-indices = <17>, <29>,
> 					<30>, <31>, <32>,
> 					...;
> 			clock-output-names = "ahb2_gmac", "ahb2_ohic1",
> 					"ahb2_ohic2", "ahb2_ohic3", "ahb1_ve",
> 					...;
> 		};
> 		apb1_gates {
> 			...
> 		};
> 		apb2_gates {
> 			...
> 		};
> 	};

Or simply

bus_gates {
	clocks = <&ahb1>, <&ahb2>;
	clock-indices = <5>, <6>, <8>, ...
	clock-output-names = "bus_ce", "bus_dma", "bus_mmc0"
};

Maxime

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