Re: [PATCH 3/3] PCI: apple: Add support for optional PWREN GPIO

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 04 May 2022 04:36:02 +0100,
Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> wrote:

[...]

> 
> So it'd go something like this:
> 
> - apcie driver, on slot activation, sees a pwren gpio/reg and powers it
> on prior to bringing up the link (and marks that port as d3cold supported)
> - sdhci-pci driver, on probe, sees an external card detect GPIO declared
> and considers that license to call pci_d3cold_enable and enable
> runtime-pm (since it won't need the internal card detect IRQ/GPIO)
> - No SD card is inserted, so SD driver goes into runtime suspend and
> saves whatever controller state it needs
> - PCI core saves whatever config space stuff it needs to save, SD
> controller is powered down via GPIO

I haven't quite found yet how this goes, but I can't say I tried in
anger. I guess that the root port device has to provide some standard
PM callbacks that would further tickle the regulator?

> - SD card is inserted, SMC GPIO IRQ notifies SD driver
> - SD driver goes out of runtime suspend
> - PCI core powers on controller, re-establishes link, restores config space
> - SD driver restores host controller registers and discovers the new card
> 
> No new APIs, this is all existing kernel stuff. PCI manages slot power
> same as it does on ACPI systems (that support it), driver interacts with
> it via runtime-pm and the d3cold control stuff.
> 
> I'm tempted to prototype this today and see how it goes...

Well, let us know how that goes.

Thanks,

	M.

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