Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] power: domain: Add driver for a PM domain provider which controls

[Max Krummenacher <max.oss.09@gmail.com>]

Hi

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 9:22 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 9:15 PM Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 05:08:46PM +0200, Max Krummenacher wrote:
> > > From: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@toradex.com>
> > >
> > > its power enable by using a regulator.
> > >
> > > The currently implemented PM domain providers are all specific to
> > > a particular system on chip.
> >
> > Yes, power domains tend to be specific to an SoC... 'power-domains' is
> > supposed to be power islands in a chip. Linux 'PM domains' can be
> > anything...

I don't see why such power islands should be restricted to a SoC. You can
build the exact same idea on a PCB or even more modular designs.

>
> > > This allows to use the "regulator-pm-pd" driver with an arbitrary
> > > device just by adding the 'power-domains' property to the devices
> > > device tree node. However the device's dt-bindings schema likely does
> > > not allow the property 'power-domains'.
> > > One way to solve this would be to allow 'power-domains' globally
> > > similarly how 'status' and other common properties are allowed as
> > > implicit properties.
> >
> > No. For 'power-domains' bindings have to define how many there are and
> > what each one is.
>
> IMO "power-domains" are an integration feature, i.e. orthogonal to the
> actual device that is part of the domain.  Hence the "power-domains"
> property may appear everywhere.
>
> It is actually the same for on-chip devices, as an IP core may be
> reused on a new SoC that does have power or clock domains.  For
> these, we managed to handle that fine because most devices do have
> some form of family- or SoC-specific compatible values to control if
> the power-domains property can be present/is required or not.
>
> But for off-chip devices, the integrator (board designed) can do
> whatever he wants.  Off-chip devices do have the advantage that it
> is usually well documented which power supply (if there are multiple)
> serves which purpose, which is not always clear for on-chip devices.
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                         Geert
>
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