Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] dt-bindings: PCI: Add STM32MP25 PCIe root complex bindings

[Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 04:53:48PM +0100, Christian Bruel wrote:
> 
> > Makes sense.  What about phys, resets, etc?  I'm pretty sure a PHY
> > would be a per-Root Port thing, and some resets and wakeup signals
> > also.
> > 
> > For new drivers, I think we should start adding Root Port stanzas to
> > specifically associate those things with the Root Port, e.g.,
> > something like this?
> > 
> >    pcie@48400000 {
> >      compatible = "st,stm32mp25-pcie-rc";
> > 
> >      pcie@0,0 {
> >        reg = <0x0000 0 0 0 0>;
> >        phys = <&combophy PHY_TYPE_PCIE>;
> >        phy-names = "pcie-phy";
> >      };
> >    };
> > 
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/mediatek,mt7621-pcie.yaml?id=v6.12#n111
> > is one binding that does this, others include apple,pcie.yaml,
> > brcm,stb-pcie.yaml, hisilicon,kirin-pcie.yaml.
> > 
> 
> On a second thought, moving the PHY to the root-port part would introduce a
> discrepancy with the pcie_ep binding, whereas the PHY is required on the
> pcie_ep node.
> 
> Even for the pcie_rc, the PHY is needed to enable the core_clk to access
> the PCIe core registers,
> 

But why that matters? You can still parse the child nodes, enable PHY and
configure PCIe registers.

> So that would make 2 different required PHY locations for RC and EP:
> 
>     pcie_rc: pcie@48400000 {
>       compatible = "st,stm32mp25-pcie-rc";
> 
>       pcie@0,0 {
>         reg = <0x0000 0 0 0 0>;
>         phys = <&combophy PHY_TYPE_PCIE>;
>         phy-names = "pcie-phy";
>       };
>     };
> 
>     pcie_ep pcie@48400000 {
>       compatible = "st,stm32mp25-pcie-ep";
>       phys = <&combophy PHY_TYPE_PCIE>;
>       phy-names = "pcie-phy";
>     };
> 
> Simplest seems to keep the PHY required for the pcie core regardless of the
> mode and keep the empty root port to split the design
> 

No please. Try to do the right thing from the start itself.

- Mani

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