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* [PATCH v2 0/2] Raspberry Pi 5 RTC driver
@ 2026-09-17 12:21 Sander Speetjens
  2026-09-17 12:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: rtc: Add property for Raspberry Pi 5 RTC Sander Speetjens
  2026-09-17 12:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] rtc: Add Raspberry Pi 5 RTC driver Sander Speetjens
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sander Speetjens @ 2026-09-17 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alexandre Belloni
  Cc: Rob Herring, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Conor Dooley, Florian Fainelli,
	Jonathan Bell, Stefan Wahren, linux-rtc, devicetree,
	linux-rpi-kernel, linux-arm-kernel, sander.speetjens

The Raspberry Pi 5 has a battery-backed RTC located on the DA9091 PMIC accessed via the I2C bus[1].
Access to the RTC is provided exclusively through the VideoCore firmware
mailbox interface (not via a direct I2C register interface).

As stated by jamesh on the Rasperry Pi forum [2], "There are no plans to release a public datasheet for the DA9091." So we are stuck with the firmware interface for now. PhilE also states that "The firmware needs full control of the DA9091, sometimes with extremely low latency, otherwise there's a risk the supply could just cut the power."

This series adds:
  - a DT property for the charging voltage of the RTC battery
  - the RTC driver that talks to the firmware

The driver and binding are based on (and largely taken from) the
downstream Raspberry Pi kernel. The main changes for upstream are
the addition of a dt binding property for setting the charging voltage and
binding the driver from the raspberrypi-firmware driver instead of from
the DT.

The driver supports time read/write, alarm, and optional trickle
charging voltage configuration via the device-tree.

Testing
-------
- Hardware: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B revC
- Kernel: v7.2
- dt_binding_check: passed
- Basic RTC operations (read/write time, alarm) verified

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/
[2] https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=359073

Sander Speetjens (2):
  dt-bindings: rtc: Add property for Raspberry Pi 5 RTC
  rtc: Add Raspberry Pi 5 RTC driver

 .../arm/bcm/raspberrypi,bcm2835-firmware.yaml |   7 +
 drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c                |  19 ++
 drivers/rtc/Kconfig                           |  11 +
 drivers/rtc/Makefile                          |   1 +
 drivers/rtc/rtc-raspberrypi.c                 | 277 ++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 315 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/rtc/rtc-raspberrypi.c


base-commit: fd73f4a6659897191fa0d40695fe370925dd3780
-- 
2.55.0



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* [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: rtc: Add property for Raspberry Pi 5 RTC
  2026-09-17 12:21 [PATCH v2 0/2] Raspberry Pi 5 RTC driver Sander Speetjens
@ 2026-09-17 12:21 ` Sander Speetjens
  2026-09-17 12:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] rtc: Add Raspberry Pi 5 RTC driver Sander Speetjens
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sander Speetjens @ 2026-09-17 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alexandre Belloni
  Cc: Rob Herring, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Conor Dooley, Florian Fainelli,
	Jonathan Bell, Stefan Wahren, linux-rtc, devicetree,
	linux-rpi-kernel, linux-arm-kernel, sander.speetjens

Add charging-voltage-millivolt property for the Raspberry Pi 5 RTC.

V1 -> V2: As discussed with Krzysztof Kozlowski, this property is folded into
the existing raspberrypi,bcm2835-firmware properties.

Signed-off-by: Sander Speetjens <sander.speetjens@gmail.com>
---
 .../bindings/arm/bcm/raspberrypi,bcm2835-firmware.yaml     | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/raspberrypi,bcm2835-firmware.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/raspberrypi,bcm2835-firmware.yaml
index 983ea80eaec9..1a0432510bee 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/raspberrypi,bcm2835-firmware.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/raspberrypi,bcm2835-firmware.yaml
@@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ properties:
     required:
       - compatible
 
+  charging-voltage-millivolt:
+    $ref: /schemas/rtc/rtc.yaml#/properties/charging-voltage-millivolt
+    minimum: 1300
+    maximum: 5000
+
 required:
   - compatible
   - mboxes
@@ -171,5 +176,7 @@ examples:
             touchscreen-size-x = <800>;
             touchscreen-size-y = <480>;
         };
+
+        trickle-charge-millivolt = <3300>;
     };
 ...
-- 
2.55.0



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* [PATCH v2 2/2] rtc: Add Raspberry Pi 5 RTC driver
  2026-09-17 12:21 [PATCH v2 0/2] Raspberry Pi 5 RTC driver Sander Speetjens
  2026-09-17 12:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: rtc: Add property for Raspberry Pi 5 RTC Sander Speetjens
@ 2026-09-17 12:21 ` Sander Speetjens
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sander Speetjens @ 2026-09-17 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alexandre Belloni
  Cc: Rob Herring, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Conor Dooley, Florian Fainelli,
	Jonathan Bell, Stefan Wahren, linux-rtc, devicetree,
	linux-rpi-kernel, linux-arm-kernel, sander.speetjens, Dom Cobley

Upstreaming the downstream Raspberry Pi 5 RTC driver.
This driver supports the custom DA9091, which is accessed through the firmware mailbox.

V1 -> V2:
Instead of the original driver, which was directly bound to the device tree. This driver is bound to the Raspberry Pi firmware device by creating a child device in the firmware driver probe function. The child device is then bound to this driver, which uses the firmware mailbox to access the RTC.

A couple of minor changes have been made to the driver since it was originally written, including:
- Checking if the model is a Raspberry Pi 5, as the RTC is only present on that model.
- Using the new devm_rpi_firmware_get() and devm_init_wakeup() helper to get the firmware device and avoid leaking memory.
- Using millivolts instead of microvolts for the trickle charge voltage, to match the RTC standard.
- Instead of setting the trickle charge voltage to 0 to disable trickle charging, the property is now optional. If the property is not present, trickle charging is disabled, per the RTC standard.
- Renaming the driver dt match compatible to "raspberrypi,firmware-rtc" to match the other firmware bindings.
- Renaming the driver name to "raspberrypi-rtc" to match the other firmware drivers.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Bell <jonathan@raspberrypi.com>
Signed-off-by: Dom Cobley <popcornmix@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sander Speetjens <sander.speetjens@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c |  19 +++
 drivers/rtc/Kconfig            |  11 ++
 drivers/rtc/Makefile           |   1 +
 drivers/rtc/rtc-raspberrypi.c  | 277 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 308 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/rtc/rtc-raspberrypi.c

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c b/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c
index 0aa322e9a2e7..b284c689f782 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 
 static struct platform_device *rpi_hwmon;
 static struct platform_device *rpi_clk;
+static struct platform_device *rpi_rtc;
 
 struct rpi_firmware {
 	struct mbox_client cl;
@@ -231,6 +232,21 @@ static void rpi_register_clk_driver(struct device *dev)
 						-1, NULL, 0);
 }
 
+static void rpi_register_rtc_driver(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct device_node *firmware;
+
+	firmware = of_get_compatible_child(dev->of_node,
+					   "raspberrypi,firmware-rtc");
+	if (firmware) {
+		of_node_put(firmware);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	rpi_rtc = platform_device_register_data(dev, "raspberrypi-rtc",
+						-1, NULL, 0);
+}
+
 unsigned int rpi_firmware_clk_get_max_rate(struct rpi_firmware *fw, unsigned int id)
 {
 	struct rpi_firmware_clk_rate_request msg =
@@ -305,6 +321,7 @@ static int rpi_firmware_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	rpi_firmware_print_firmware_revision(fw);
 	rpi_register_hwmon_driver(dev, fw);
 	rpi_register_clk_driver(dev);
+	rpi_register_rtc_driver(dev);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -327,6 +344,8 @@ static void rpi_firmware_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	rpi_hwmon = NULL;
 	platform_device_unregister(rpi_clk);
 	rpi_clk = NULL;
+	platform_device_unregister(rpi_rtc);
+	rpi_rtc = NULL;
 
 	rpi_firmware_put(fw);
 }
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
index 05b9233b9418..382973d46e06 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
@@ -1999,6 +1999,17 @@ config RTC_DRV_R7301
 	   This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
 	   will be called rtc-r7301.
 
+config RTC_DRV_RPI
+        tristate "Raspberry Pi RTC"
+        depends on ARCH_BRCMSTB || COMPILE_TEST
+        default ARCH_BRCMSTB
+        help
+          If you say yes here you get support for the RTC found on
+          Raspberry Pi devices.
+
+          This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
+          will be called rtc-rpi.
+
 config RTC_DRV_STM32
 	tristate "STM32 RTC"
 	select REGMAP_MMIO
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/Makefile b/drivers/rtc/Makefile
index 0347645b021f..46f1a0fc2416 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/rtc/Makefile
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_DRV_PS3)	+= rtc-ps3.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_DRV_PXA)	+= rtc-pxa.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_DRV_R7301)	+= rtc-r7301.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_DRV_R9701)	+= rtc-r9701.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_DRV_RPI)	+= rtc-raspberrypi.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_DRV_RC5T583)	+= rtc-rc5t583.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_DRV_RC5T619)	+= rtc-rc5t619.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_DRV_RK808)	+= rtc-rk808.o
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-raspberrypi.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-raspberrypi.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..af775ae55a87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-raspberrypi.c
@@ -0,0 +1,277 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
+/**
+ * rtc-rpi.c
+ *
+ * RTC driver using firmware mailbox
+ * Supports battery backed RTC and wake alarms
+ *
+ * Based on rtc-meson-vrtc by Neil Armstrong
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2023, Raspberry Pi Ltd.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/platform_device.h>
+#include <linux/rtc.h>
+#include <linux/of.h>
+#include <soc/bcm2835/raspberrypi-firmware.h>
+
+struct rpi_rtc_data {
+	struct rtc_device *rtc;
+	struct rpi_firmware *fw;
+	u32 bbat_vchg_millivolts;
+};
+
+#define RPI_FIRMWARE_GET_RTC_REG 0x00030087
+#define RPI_FIRMWARE_SET_RTC_REG 0x00038087
+
+enum {
+	RTC_TIME,
+	RTC_ALARM,
+	RTC_ALARM_PENDING,
+	RTC_ALARM_ENABLE,
+	RTC_BBAT_CHG_VOLTS,
+	RTC_BBAT_CHG_VOLTS_MIN,
+	RTC_BBAT_CHG_VOLTS_MAX,
+	RTC_BBAT_VOLTS
+};
+
+static int rpi_rtc_read_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
+{
+	struct rpi_rtc_data *vrtc = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+	u32 data[2] = {RTC_TIME};
+	int err;
+
+	err = rpi_firmware_property(vrtc->fw, RPI_FIRMWARE_GET_RTC_REG,
+				    &data, sizeof(data));
+	rtc_time64_to_tm(data[1], tm);
+	return err;
+}
+
+static int rpi_rtc_set_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
+{
+	struct rpi_rtc_data *vrtc = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+	u32 data[2] = {RTC_TIME, rtc_tm_to_time64(tm)};
+
+	return rpi_firmware_property(vrtc->fw, RPI_FIRMWARE_SET_RTC_REG,
+				     &data, sizeof(data));
+}
+
+static int rpi_rtc_alarm_irq_is_enabled(struct device *dev, unsigned char *enabled)
+{
+	struct rpi_rtc_data *vrtc = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+	u32 data[2] = {RTC_ALARM_ENABLE};
+	s32 err = 0;
+
+	err = rpi_firmware_property(vrtc->fw, RPI_FIRMWARE_GET_RTC_REG,
+				    &data, sizeof(data));
+	*enabled = data[1] & 0x1;
+	return err;
+}
+
+static int rpi_rtc_alarm_irq_enable(struct device *dev, unsigned int enabled)
+{
+	struct rpi_rtc_data *vrtc = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+	u32 data[2] = {RTC_ALARM_ENABLE, enabled};
+
+	return rpi_firmware_property(vrtc->fw, RPI_FIRMWARE_SET_RTC_REG,
+				     &data, sizeof(data));
+}
+
+static int rpi_rtc_alarm_clear_pending(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct rpi_rtc_data *vrtc = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+	u32 data[2] = {RTC_ALARM_PENDING, 1};
+
+	return rpi_firmware_property(vrtc->fw, RPI_FIRMWARE_SET_RTC_REG,
+				     &data, sizeof(data));
+}
+
+static int rpi_rtc_read_alarm(struct device *dev, struct rtc_wkalrm *alarm)
+{
+	struct rpi_rtc_data *vrtc = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+	u32 data[2] = {RTC_ALARM};
+	s32 err = 0;
+
+	err = rpi_rtc_alarm_irq_is_enabled(dev, &alarm->enabled);
+	if (!err)
+		err = rpi_firmware_property(vrtc->fw, RPI_FIRMWARE_GET_RTC_REG,
+					    &data, sizeof(data));
+	rtc_time64_to_tm(data[1], &alarm->time);
+
+	return err;
+}
+
+static int rpi_rtc_set_alarm(struct device *dev, struct rtc_wkalrm *alarm)
+{
+	struct rpi_rtc_data *vrtc = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+	u32 data[2] = {RTC_ALARM, rtc_tm_to_time64(&alarm->time)};
+	int err;
+
+	err = rpi_firmware_property(vrtc->fw, RPI_FIRMWARE_SET_RTC_REG,
+				    &data, sizeof(data));
+
+	if (err == 0)
+		err = rpi_rtc_alarm_irq_enable(dev, alarm->enabled);
+
+	return err;
+}
+
+static const struct rtc_class_ops rpi_rtc_ops = {
+	.read_time = rpi_rtc_read_time,
+	.set_time = rpi_rtc_set_time,
+	.read_alarm = rpi_rtc_read_alarm,
+	.set_alarm = rpi_rtc_set_alarm,
+	.alarm_irq_enable = rpi_rtc_alarm_irq_enable,
+};
+
+static int rpi_rtc_set_charge_voltage(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct rpi_rtc_data *vrtc = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+	u32 data[2] = {RTC_BBAT_CHG_VOLTS, vrtc->bbat_vchg_millivolts * 1000U};
+	int err;
+
+	err = rpi_firmware_property(vrtc->fw, RPI_FIRMWARE_SET_RTC_REG,
+				    &data, sizeof(data));
+
+	if (err)
+		dev_err(dev, "failed to set trickle charge voltage to %umV: %d\n",
+			vrtc->bbat_vchg_millivolts, err);
+	else if (vrtc->bbat_vchg_millivolts)
+		dev_info(dev, "trickle charging enabled at %umV\n",
+			 vrtc->bbat_vchg_millivolts);
+
+	return err;
+}
+
+static ssize_t rpi_rtc_print_uint_reg(struct device *dev, char *buf, u32 reg)
+{
+	struct rpi_rtc_data *vrtc = dev_get_drvdata(dev->parent);
+	u32 data[2] = {reg, 0};
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	ret = rpi_firmware_property(vrtc->fw, RPI_FIRMWARE_GET_RTC_REG,
+				    &data, sizeof(data));
+	if (ret < 0)
+		return ret;
+
+	return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", data[1]);
+}
+
+static ssize_t charging_voltage_show(struct device *dev,
+				     struct device_attribute *attr,
+				     char *buf)
+{
+	return rpi_rtc_print_uint_reg(dev, buf, RTC_BBAT_CHG_VOLTS);
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(charging_voltage);
+
+static ssize_t charging_voltage_min_show(struct device *dev,
+					 struct device_attribute *attr,
+					 char *buf)
+{
+	return rpi_rtc_print_uint_reg(dev, buf, RTC_BBAT_CHG_VOLTS_MIN);
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(charging_voltage_min);
+
+static ssize_t charging_voltage_max_show(struct device *dev,
+					 struct device_attribute *attr,
+					 char *buf)
+{
+	return rpi_rtc_print_uint_reg(dev, buf, RTC_BBAT_CHG_VOLTS_MAX);
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(charging_voltage_max);
+
+static ssize_t battery_voltage_show(struct device *dev,
+				    struct device_attribute *attr,
+				    char *buf)
+{
+	return rpi_rtc_print_uint_reg(dev, buf, RTC_BBAT_VOLTS);
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(battery_voltage);
+
+static struct attribute *rpi_rtc_attrs[] = {
+	&dev_attr_charging_voltage.attr,
+	&dev_attr_charging_voltage_min.attr,
+	&dev_attr_charging_voltage_max.attr,
+	&dev_attr_battery_voltage.attr,
+	NULL
+};
+
+static const struct attribute_group rpi_rtc_sysfs_files = {
+	.attrs = rpi_rtc_attrs,
+};
+
+static int rpi_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
+{
+	struct rpi_rtc_data *vrtc;
+	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
+	struct rpi_firmware *firmware;
+	int ret;
+
+	// Check if our model is a Raspberry Pi 5, as the RTC is only present on that model.
+	const char *model = of_get_property(of_root, "model", NULL);
+	if (!model || strncmp(model, "Raspberry Pi 5", 14) != 0) {
+		dev_err(dev, "RTC is only available on Raspberry Pi 5\n");
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
+
+	// Get the firmware device from the parent device
+	firmware = devm_rpi_firmware_get(dev, dev->parent->of_node);
+
+	if (!firmware)
+		return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+
+	vrtc = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*vrtc), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!vrtc)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	vrtc->fw = firmware;
+
+	devm_device_init_wakeup(dev);
+
+	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, vrtc);
+
+	vrtc->rtc = devm_rtc_allocate_device(dev);
+	if (IS_ERR(vrtc->rtc))
+		return PTR_ERR(vrtc->rtc);
+
+	vrtc->rtc->range_max = U32_MAX;           /* 2106-02-07 */
+
+	set_bit(RTC_FEATURE_ALARM_WAKEUP_ONLY, vrtc->rtc->features);
+	clear_bit(RTC_FEATURE_UPDATE_INTERRUPT, vrtc->rtc->features);
+
+	vrtc->rtc->ops = &rpi_rtc_ops;
+	ret = rtc_add_group(vrtc->rtc, &rpi_rtc_sysfs_files);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	rpi_rtc_alarm_clear_pending(dev);
+
+	vrtc->bbat_vchg_millivolts = 0;
+	of_property_read_u32(dev->parent->of_node, "trickle-charge-millivolt",
+			&vrtc->bbat_vchg_millivolts);
+
+	rpi_rtc_set_charge_voltage(dev);
+
+	return devm_rtc_register_device(vrtc->rtc);
+}
+
+static const struct of_device_id rpi_rtc_dt_match[] = {
+	{ .compatible = "raspberrypi,firmware-rtc"},
+	{},
+};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, rpi_rtc_dt_match);
+
+static struct platform_driver rpi_rtc_driver = {
+	.probe = rpi_rtc_probe,
+	.driver = {
+		.name = "raspberrypi-rtc",
+		.of_match_table = rpi_rtc_dt_match,
+	},
+};
+
+module_platform_driver(rpi_rtc_driver);
+
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Raspberry Pi RTC driver");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-- 
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