Re: [PATCH v8 00/11] arm64: sunxi: Initial Allwinner H616 SoC support

[Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 16:52:30 +0200
Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech> wrote:

Hi,

> On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 04:38:27PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > another try on the basic Allwinner H616 support, now on top of 5.14-rc1.
> > 
> > This time I dropped the USB support from the basic series, to split off
> > the discussion, and simplify the core SoC support. I will post the USB
> > series soon, to be applied on top.
> > I kept the RTC support in, even though this is still under discussion,
> > because this is important to keep future DT files compatible with this
> > kernel.  
> 
> Honestly, I don't want to support something we don't guarantee if it's
> at the expense of making something we do guarantee more complicated.

I don't ask for or provide guarantees, but I think we can at least *try*
to keep this compatible. This version works at the moment, and should
also work with future DTs - within the limits of the current driver, so
only using the RC clock. It allows to later improve the accuracy by
adding better input clocks - and later DT/driver combinations can make
use of this.

> Delaying the clock tree description to sometime in the future will only
> further complicate the probe part of the driver, and there's far too
> many special cases already.

I don't see how this would complicate probing beyond what Allwinner
brought upon us already anyway: no LOSC crystal input in this package
version, but having this pin in some other SoC sharing this die
(according to some BSP) sources. We can't expect a super clean driver
with those HW design choices.

If we really cannot keep the DT compatible, fair enough: that's what
it is (there is no guarantee!), but at least we have tried.

Cheers,
Andre