[PATCH 0/4] vf610-zii-dev updates

[linux@armlinux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 11:11:08PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> These patches update the DT for the ZII VF610 boards.
> 
> The first patch fixes complaints at boot about missing DMAs on rev C
> boards, particularly for the SPI interface.  This is because edma1 is
> not enabled.  This seems to be a regression from the 4.10 era.
> 
> The second patch fixes an interrupt storm during boot on rev B boards,
> which causes boot to take 80+ seconds - this seems to be a long
> standing issue since the DT description was first added.  The PTB28
> pin is definitely GPIO 98, and GPIO 98 is definitely part of the
> gpio3 block, not the gpio2 block.  Since GPIO 66 (which is the
> corresponding GPIO in gpio2) is low, and the IRQ trigger is level-low,
> this causes an interrupt storm.
> 
> The last two patches add an explicit description of the PHYs that are
> actually connected to the switch - the 88e1545 is a quad PHY, and
> without describing the MDIO bus, DSA assumes that any PHYs it can
> discover are present for the switch.  As only the first three PHYs
> are connected, this leads the 4th port to believe it is connected to
> the 4th PHY when the fixed-link definition is (eventually) removed.
> 
> Head this off by providing the proper descriptions, and as we have
> them, also describe the interrupts for these PHYs.
> 
> Note, however, that the interrupt description is not quite correct -
> the 88e1545 PHYs all share one interrupt line, and there is a register
> in the PHY which can be used to demux the interrupt to the specific
> PHY.  However, in this description, we ignore the demux register, and
> just share the interrupt between the PHYs.  That much is fine, but
> the pinmuxing becomes problematical - if we describe the same pinmux
> settings for each PHY for the interrupt line, the 2nd/3rd PHYs fail.
> This has no known solution.  Suggestions welcome.
> 
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/vf610-zii-dev-rev-b.dts | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/vf610-zii-dev.dtsi      |  4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

There's more stuff that isn't correct in the Vybrid DTS files...

When the SoC was first added, the vfxxx.dtsi had:

+                       adc0: adc at 4003b000 {
...
+                               status = "disabled";
+                       };
+                       adc1: adc at 400bb000 {
...
+                               status = "disabled";
+                       };

This default status remains today.

IIO hwmon support was added later:

+               iio-hwmon {
+                       compatible = "iio-hwmon";
+                       io-channels = <&adc0 16>, <&adc1 16>;
+               };

which is all fine and dandy, but iio-hwmon fails to probe unless it can
find _all_ the io-channels specified.

Given that the two ADC channels referenced by iio-hwmon default to being
disabled, it makes no sense for iio-hwmon to default to being enabled.

What's more is that if, say, adc0 is enabled by a board, the iio-hwmon
device still fails to be probed because it fails to get adc1.

As I see it, there's two possible solutions to this:
1. remove the default disabled status of the ADCs so both are always
   available, or
2. default iio-hwmon to disabled, and provide a label for this device
   so that a correct io-channels specification can be suppled for the
   board in question, and for iio-hwmon to be enabled where appropriate.

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