Re: [PATCH 3/6] ARM: dts: sunxi: h3/h5: Add MBUS controller node

From: "Jernej Škrabec" <jernej.skrabec@siol.net>
To: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Cc: wens@csie.org, robh+dt@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	mchehab@kernel.org, hverkuil@xs4all.nl,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] ARM: dts: sunxi: h3/h5: Add MBUS controller node
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 22:46:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5193854.KWMFve8tAi@jernej-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190912203427.ajbmtm5djctpkz6p@localhost.localdomain>

Dne četrtek, 12. september 2019 ob 22:34:27 CEST je Maxime Ripard napisal(a):
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 10:28:37PM +0200, Jernej Škrabec wrote:
> > Dne četrtek, 12. september 2019 ob 22:20:57 CEST je Maxime Ripard 
napisal(a):
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 07:51:29PM +0200, Jernej Skrabec wrote:
> > > > Both, H3 and H5, contain MBUS, which is the bus used by DMA devices to
> > > > access system memory.
> > > > 
> > > > MBUS controller is responsible for arbitration between channels based
> > > > on set priority and can do some other things as well, like report
> > > > bandwidth used. It also maps RAM region to different address than CPU.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@siol.net>
> > > > ---
> > > > 
> > > >  arch/arm/boot/dts/sunxi-h3-h5.dtsi | 9 +++++++++
> > > >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sunxi-h3-h5.dtsi
> > > > b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sunxi-h3-h5.dtsi index eba190b3f9de..ef1d03812636
> > > > 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sunxi-h3-h5.dtsi
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sunxi-h3-h5.dtsi
> > > > @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
> > > > 
> > > >  		compatible = "simple-bus";
> > > >  		#address-cells = <1>;
> > > >  		#size-cells = <1>;
> > > > 
> > > > +		dma-ranges;
> > > > 
> > > >  		ranges;
> > > >  		
> > > >  		display_clocks: clock@1000000 {
> > > > 
> > > > @@ -538,6 +539,14 @@
> > > > 
> > > >  			};
> > > >  		
> > > >  		};
> > > > 
> > > > +		mbus: dram-controller@1c62000 {
> > > > +			compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-h3-mbus";
> > > > +			reg = <0x01c62000 0x1000>;
> > > > +			clocks = <&ccu 113>;
> > > > +			dma-ranges = <0x00000000 0x40000000
> > 
> > 0xc0000000>;
> > 
> > > > +			#interconnect-cells = <1>;
> > > > +		};
> > > > +
> > > 
> > > If that's easy enough to access, can you also add the references in
> > > the devices that are already there? (CSI and DE comes to my mind, but
> > > there might be others).
> > 
> > Strangely, DE2 doesn't use this offset. That was tested on OrangePi
> > Plus2E,
> > which has 2 GiB of RAM and subtracting this offset causes corrupted image.
> 
> Ok, weird. But if it was tested then fine by me :)
> 
> > But I can add this properties to CSI too. However, wouldn't that need CSI
> > DT binding expansion with those properties? othetwise DT check will fail.
> Oh right, we definitely need to update the binding indeed. The code
> should be able to cope with both cases already.

I guess it's better to handle that with another patch series then? Changing 
CSI bindings doesn't fit here.

Best regards,
Jernej