[linux-sunxi] [PATCH] clk: sunxi-ng: fix PLL_CPUX adjusting on H3

[maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard)]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 06:48:35PM +0100, Ond?ej Jirman wrote:
> Dne 18.1.2017 v 17:56 Maxime Ripard napsal(a):
> >>> What's your current plan to fix that? I guess the easiest (and most
> >>> likely to be reusable) would be to allow for clock tables, instead of
> >>> using the generic approach. We might have some other clocks (like
> >>> audio or video) that would need such a precise tuning in the future
> >>> too.
> >>
> >> My proposed solution is this for M factor (H3 specific solution):
> >>
> >> https://github.com/megous/linux/commit/88be3d421e958579026135d8acec4b3983958738
> > 
> > This one is fine.
> > 
> >> and this for P factor:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/megous/linux/commit/d7f274ed0c13fa9b4099445cb6bf9b2f8f2cfa8a
> >>
> >> Perhaps it should be configurable if the P limitation is not universal
> >> for all NKMP clocks. But I haven't read all the datasheets.
> > 
> > And this is exactly what I wanted to avoid, for the reason you're
> > giving :)
> > 
> > This is some generic code, and yet you're putting a clock and SoC
> > specific limit in there. You have two ways to deal with that. Either
> > come up with some generic throttling mecanism to force a particular
> > value above or below a given threshold, but that might be tedious to
> > do, and require some significant rework.
> > 
> > Or you can use a table, which is generic and should be relatively
> > easy. I really think this is the most straightforward solution, and
> > even more so since we just want to support a limited number of
> > frequencies in this case.
> 
> So I would add a pointer to a table to struct ccu_nkmp and define the
> table itself in ccu-sun8i-h3.c?
> 
> If struct ccu_nkmp would have non-NULL pointer to a table, it would be
> used instead of the math in ccu_nkmp.c.
> 
> Sounds ok?

Yep, sounds perfect!

Maxime

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