Re: [PATCH v13 6/8] media: dt-bindings: wave5: add Chips&Media 521c codec IP support

[Devarsh Thakkar <devarsht@ti.com>]

Hi Sebastian, Krzysztof, Rob,

On 12/10/23 16:31, Sebastian Fricke wrote:
> From: Robert Beckett <bob.beckett@collabora.com>
> 
> Add bindings for the chips&media wave5 codec driver
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Beckett <bob.beckett@collabora.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dafna Hirschfeld <dafna.hirschfeld@collabora.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke@collabora.com>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/media/cnm,wave5.yaml       | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 60 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/cnm,wave5.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/cnm,wave5.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..b31d34aec05b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/cnm,wave5.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/media/cnm,wave5.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: Chips&Media Wave 5 Series multi-standard codec IP
> +
> +maintainers:
> +  - Nas Chung <nas.chung@chipsnmedia.com>
> +  - Jackson Lee <jackson.lee@chipsnmedia.com>
> +
> +description:
> +  The Chips&Media WAVE codec IP is a multi format video encoder/decoder
> +
> +properties:
> +  compatible:
> +    enum:
> +      - cnm,cm521c-vpu
> +
> +  reg:
> +    maxItems: 1
> +
> +  clocks:
> +    items:
> +      - description: VCODEC clock
> +
> +  interrupts:
> +    maxItems: 1
> +
> +  power-domains:
> +    maxItems: 1
> +
> +  resets:
> +    maxItems: 1
> +
> +  sram:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle
> +    description:
> +      The VPU uses the SRAM to store some of the reference data instead of
> +      storing it on DMA memory. It is mainly used for the purpose of reducing
> +      bandwidth.
> +
> +required:
> +  - compatible
> +  - reg
> +  - clocks
> +  - interrupts
> +

Is it possible to keep interrupts property as optional given HW can still work
without it if SW does polling of ISR using registers?

The reason to ask is in TI AM62A SoC (which also uses this codec) there is an
SoC errata of missing interrupt line to A53 and we are using SW based polling
locally to run the driver.

We were planning to upstream that SW based polling support patch in CnM driver
once this base initial driver patch series gets merged, but just wanted to
check if upfront it is possible to have interrupts property as optional so
that we don't have to change the binding doc again to make it optional later on.

Also note that the polling patch won't be specific to AM62A, other SoC's too
which use this wave5 hardware if they want can enable polling by choice (by
removing interrupt property)

Could you please share your opinion on this ?

Regards
Devarsh

> +additionalProperties: false
> +
> +examples:
> +  - |
> +    vpu: video-codec@12345678 {
> +        compatible = "cnm,cm521c-vpu";
> +        reg = <0x12345678 0x1000>;
> +        clocks = <&clks 42>;
> +        interrupts = <42>;
> +        sram = <&sram>;
> +    };
>