Re: [PATCH v7 05/15] dt-bindings: Document the STM32 reset bindings

[Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>]

On 02/05/15 08:55, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> 2015-05-01 10:08 GMT+02:00 Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>:
>> On 30/04/15 17:20, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
>>>
>>> This adds documentation of device tree bindings for the
>>> STM32 reset controller.
>>>
>>> Tested-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
>>> Acked-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
>>> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>    .../devicetree/bindings/reset/st,stm32-rcc.txt     | 107
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++
>>>    1 file changed, 107 insertions(+)
>>>    create mode 100644
>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset/st,stm32-rcc.txt
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset/st,stm32-rcc.txt
>>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset/st,stm32-rcc.txt
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..c1b0f8d
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset/st,stm32-rcc.txt
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
>>> +STMicroelectronics STM32 Peripheral Reset Controller
>>> +====================================================
>>> +
>>> +The RCC IP is both a reset and a clock controller. This documentation
>>> only
>>> +documents the reset part.
>>> +
>>> +Please also refer to reset.txt in this directory for common reset
>>> +controller binding usage.
>>> +
>>> +Required properties:
>>> +- compatible: Should be "st,stm32-rcc"
>>> +- reg: should be register base and length as documented in the
>>> +  datasheet
>>> +- #reset-cells: 1, see below
>>> +
>>> +example:
>>> +
>>> +rcc: reset@40023800 {
>>> +       #reset-cells = <1>;
>>> +       compatible = "st,stm32-rcc";
>>
>>
>> Do you intend the clock driver to use the same compatible string (given it
>> is the same bit of hardware).
>>
>> If so, is it better to use st,stm32f4-rcc here? It seems unlikey to me that
>> the register layout of the PLLs and dividers can be the same on the f7 parts
>> (and later).
>
> I agree we need a compatible dedicate to f4 series for clocks, and
> maybe even one for f429 (to be checked).
> For the reset part, we don't have this need.
>
> So either we use only "st,stm32f4" as you suggest, or we can have both
> in device tree:
>
> rcc: reset@40023800 {
>      #reset-cells = <1>;
>      compatible = "st,stm32f4-rcc", "st,stm32-rcc";
>      reg = <0x40023800 0x400>;
> };
>
> What do you think?

Having both makes sense. The reset driver probably doesn't care about 
differences between F4 and F7 (I know very little about F7 but I can't 
think of any obvious h/ware evolution that would confuse the current 
reset driver).


>>> +       reg = <0x40023800 0x400>;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +Specifying softreset control of devices
>>> +=======================================
>>> +
>>> +Device nodes should specify the reset channel required in their "resets"
>>> +property, containing a phandle to the reset device node and an index
>>> specifying
>>> +which channel to use.
>>> +The index is the bit number within the RCC registers bank, starting from
>>> RCC
>>> +base address.
>>> +It is calculated as: index = register_offset / 4 * 32 + bit_offset.
>>> +Where bit_offset is the bit offset within the register.
>>> +For example, for CRC reset:
>>> +  crc = AHB1RSTR_offset / 4 * 32 + CRCRST_bit_offset = 0x10 / 4 * 32 + 12
>>> = 140
>>> +
>>> +example:
>>> +
>>> +       timer2 {
>>> +               resets                  = <&rcc 256>;
>>> +       };
>>> +
>>> +List of valid indices for STM32F429:
>>> + - gpioa: 128
>>> + - gpiob: 129
>>> ...
>>> <snip>
>>> ...
>>> + - sai1: 310
>>> + - ltdc: 314
>>
>>
>> These numbers are stable for all STM32F4 family parts. Should this table go
>> into a dt-bindings header file?
>>
>
> This has already been discussed with Philipp and Arnd in earlier
> versions of this series [0].
> I initially created a header file, and we  decided going this way finally.

Thanks for the link. I had overlooked that (I only really started paying 
attention at v5; I should probably have looked further back before 
commenting).

However...

Arnd's concerns about mergability of headers can also be met by using 
h/ware values in the header file can't there. To be honest my comment 
was pretty heavily influenced after having read a recent patch from Rob 
Herring ( https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/1/14 ) which does exactly this.

The main reason I got interested in having a header is that the reset 
bits and the clock gate bits are encoded using the same bit patterns so 
I wondering it we could express that only once.

I guess it doesn't matter that much, especially given there is only one 
.dtsi file, and we can add a header later and remain binary compatible. 
However if the same number set does end up repeated in different .dtsi 
files I think that would motivate adding a header for F4 family.


Daniel.