From: Michael Tretter <m.tretter@pengutronix.de>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, dshah@xilinx.com,
mturquette@baylibre.com, tejasp@xilinx.com, rajanv@xilinx.com,
robh+dt@kernel.org, michals@xilinx.com, rvisaval@xilinx.com,
kernel@pengutronix.de, linux-clk@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] soc: xilinx: vcu: Convert driver to clock provider
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 10:19:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201221091959.GB22033@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <160808624070.1580929.14530755991373122337@swboyd.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:37:20 -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Michael Tretter (2020-12-15 03:56:32)
> > On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:50:00 -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > Quoting Michael Tretter (2020-11-15 23:55:20)
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > the xlnx_vcu soc driver is actually a clock provider of a PLL and four output
> > > > clocks created from the PLL via dividers.
> > > >
> > > > This series reworks the xlnx_vcu driver to use the common clock framework to
> > > > enable other drivers to use the clocks. I originally posted a series to expose
> > > > the output clocks as fixed clocks [0]. This series now implements the full
> > > > tree from the PLL to the output clocks. Therefore, I am sending a separate
> > > > series that focuses on the clocks, but it depends on v4 of the previous series
> > > > [1].
> > >
> > > After this series is this anything besides a clk provider? If it's only
> > > providing clks it would make sense to move the driver into drivers/clk/
> > >
> >
> > 1. The driver is also responsible for resetting the entire VCU (the
> > VCU_GASKET_INIT register). This isn't something that an individual encoder or
> > decoder driver should be doing. However, other clock drivers also implement a
> > reset controller.
>
> Right.
>
> >
> > 2. There are several registers for AXI performance monitoring in the VCU
> > System-Level Control register space. Right now, these are not used by the
> > driver and I have no plans to actually use them, but this might be an argument
> > against the move.
>
> I suppose if/when that happens we can have a small parent driver that
> probes the compatible string and makes two child platform devices, one
> for the clk part and one for the PMU? That would let us keep the code in
> drivers/clk/ for ease of find-ability. This assumes that the PMU
> registers don't overlap with the clk/reset registers. We usually put the
> clk and reset controllers together if they use the same registers and
> need to make sure the frameworks don't stomp on each other.
>
> >
> > I think it is OK to move the driver to drivers/clk/, but I don't have a strong
> > opinion about it.
> >
>
> Ok. I'm not too strong on it either, but drivers/soc/ is sort of a
> dumping ground for random soc things. I'm not looking at it closely but
> if the driver is in drivers/clk/ I'd be more inclined to look after the
> clk bits.
OK, I will move the driver to drivers/clk/xilinx/
Michael
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-21 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-16 7:55 [PATCH 00/12] soc: xilinx: vcu: Convert driver to clock provider Michael Tretter
2020-11-16 7:55 ` [PATCH 01/12] ARM: dts: define indexes for output clocks Michael Tretter
2020-12-02 14:33 ` Michal Simek
2020-12-07 19:21 ` Rob Herring
2020-12-13 5:44 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-11-16 7:55 ` [PATCH 02/12] clk: divider: fix initialization with parent_hw Michael Tretter
2020-12-02 14:28 ` Michal Simek
2020-12-13 5:42 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-11-16 7:55 ` [PATCH 03/12] soc: xilinx: vcu: drop coreclk from struct xlnx_vcu Michael Tretter
2020-11-16 7:55 ` [PATCH 04/12] soc: xilinx: vcu: add helper to wait for PLL locked Michael Tretter
2020-11-16 7:55 ` [PATCH 05/12] soc: xilinx: vcu: add helpers for configuring PLL Michael Tretter
2020-11-16 7:55 ` [PATCH 06/12] soc: xilinx: vcu: implement PLL disable Michael Tretter
2020-11-16 7:55 ` [PATCH 07/12] soc: xilinx: vcu: register PLL as fixed rate clock Michael Tretter
2020-12-02 14:41 ` Michal Simek
2020-11-16 7:55 ` [PATCH 08/12] soc: xilinx: vcu: implement clock provider for output clocks Michael Tretter
2020-12-02 14:49 ` Michal Simek
2020-12-13 5:55 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-12-15 11:38 ` Michael Tretter
2020-12-16 1:09 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-12-21 9:18 ` Michael Tretter
2020-11-16 7:55 ` [PATCH 09/12] soc: xilinx: vcu: make pll post divider explicit Michael Tretter
2020-12-02 14:51 ` Michal Simek
2020-11-16 7:55 ` [PATCH 10/12] soc: xilinx: vcu: make the PLL configurable Michael Tretter
2020-12-02 14:54 ` Michal Simek
2020-11-16 7:55 ` [PATCH 11/12] soc: xilinx: vcu: remove calculation of PLL configuration Michael Tretter
2020-11-16 7:55 ` [PATCH 12/12] soc: xilinx: vcu: use bitfields for register definition Michael Tretter
2020-12-13 5:47 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-12-03 7:46 ` [PATCH 00/12] soc: xilinx: vcu: Convert driver to clock provider Michal Simek
2020-12-03 9:00 ` Michael Tretter
2020-12-03 9:14 ` Michal Simek
2020-12-13 5:50 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-12-15 11:56 ` Michael Tretter
2020-12-16 2:37 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-12-21 9:19 ` Michael Tretter [this message]
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