Re: [PATCH v9 01/22] dt-bindings: ARM: Mediatek: Add new document bindings of imp i2c wrapper controller

[Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 2:34 AM Chun-Jie Chen
<chun-jie.chen@mediatek.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2021-06-11 at 11:56 +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> >
> > On 10/06/2021 19:41, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > Quoting Matthias Brugger (2021-06-08 07:45:49)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 07/06/2021 07:20, Chun-Jie Chen wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 2021-06-02 at 12:12 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > > > > > +
> > > > > > > +description:
> > > > > > > +  The Mediatek imp i2c wrapper controller provides
> > > > > > > functional
> > > > > > > configurations and clocks to the system.
> > > > > > > +
> > > > > > > +properties:
> > > > > > > +  compatible:
> > > > > > > +    items:
> > > > > > > +      - enum:
> > > > > > > +          - mediatek,mt8192-imp_iic_wrap_c
> > > > > > > +          - mediatek,mt8192-imp_iic_wrap_e
> > > > > > > +          - mediatek,mt8192-imp_iic_wrap_s
> > > > > > > +          - mediatek,mt8192-imp_iic_wrap_ws
> > > > > > > +          - mediatek,mt8192-imp_iic_wrap_w
> > > > > > > +          - mediatek,mt8192-imp_iic_wrap_n
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Looks to me like these are all the same h/w, but just have
> > > > > > differing
> > > > > > sets of clocks. That's not really a reason to have different
> > > > > > compatibles.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If you need to know what clocks are present, you can walk the
> > > > > > DT for
> > > > > > all 'clocks' properties matching this clock controller
> > > > > > instance. Or
> > > > > > use
> > > > > > 'clock-indices' to define which ones are present.
> > >
> > > Is the idea to use clock-indices and then list all the clock ids in
> > > there and match them up at driver probe time to register the clocks
> > > provided by the IO region? Feels like we'll do a lot of parsing at
> > > each
> > > boot to match up structures and register clks with the clk
> > > framework.
> > >
> > > If it's like other SoCs then the clk id maps to a hard macro for a
> > > type
> > > of clk, and those hard macros have been glued together with other
> > > clks
> > > and then partitioned into different IO regions to make up a clock
> > > controller. Or maybe in this case, those clk hard macros have been
> > > scattered into each IP block like SPI, i2c, uart, etc. so that the
> > > clock
> > > controller doesn't really exist and merely the gates and rate
> > > control
> > > (mux/divider) for the clk that's clocking some particular IP block
> > > all
> > > live inside the IP wrapper. If it's this case then I hope there are
> > > a
> > > bunch of PLLs that are fixed rate so that the i2c clk doesn't have
> > > to go
> > > outside the wrapper to change frequency (of which there should be
> > > two
> > > "standard" frequencies anyway).
> > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Rob
> > > > >
> > > > > Some module is divided to sub-modules which are designed in
> > > > > different
> > > > > h/w blocks for different usage, and if we want to use the same
> > > > > compatible to present these h/w blocks, we need to move the
> > > > > clock data
> > > > > provided by these h/w blocks to dts, but we usually use
> > > > > different
> > > > > compatible to get the h/w blocks data in
> > > > > Mediatek's clock driver, so do you suggest to register clock
> > > > > provided
> > > > > by different h/w blocks using same compatible?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > The mapping of them is as following:
> > > > imp_iic_wrap_c:  11007000
> > > > imp_iic_wrap_e:  11cb1000
> > > > imp_iic_wrap_s:  11d03000
> > > > imp_iic_wrap_ws: 11d23000
> > > > imp_iic_wrap_w:  11e01000
> > > > imp_iic_wrap_n:  11f02000
> > > >
> > >
> > > Sure. What is their purpose though? Are they simply a bunch of
> > > different
> > > i2c clks?
> > >
> >
> > That would be need to be answered by MediaTek as I don't have access
> > to any
> > documentation.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Matthias
>
> We describe which clock controllers are exist in dts and
> get the clock data provided by clock controller in driver data
> by matching device compatible.
>
> The clock data contains several clocks which includes the clock index,
> parent clock source and the details of reg control inside the IP block
> of clock controller.
>
> In MT8192 platform, some IP block is divide to several sub-blocks and
> each sub-block provides clock control by itself.

Some more information:

Based on what I read in the datasheets, I'm guessing that MediaTek groups
the I2C controllers into several groups and places them in different parts
of the die. The suffix of imp_iic_wrap_XXX is likely pointing to the
placement of the group. And the imp_iic_wrap_XXX is what the name suggests
a wrapper around the group of I2C controllers. The wrapper contains clock
and reset controls, as well as other things that I can't make out.


ChenYu