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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: "Philipp Zabel" <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>,
	"Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com,
	"Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] reset: brcm-pmb: add driver for Broadcom's PMB
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 12:20:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4eeb0a1c-75e4-94ad-8fbb-aeb347aea5d0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5162eae806f21f583c6dbdf7bb79384a3d9d5cf.camel@pengutronix.de>

On 12/8/20 3:02 AM, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Hi Rafał,
> 
> On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 13:56 +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
>>
>> PMB can be found on BCM4908 and many other chipsets (e.g. BCM63138).
>> It's needed to power on and off SoC blocks like PCIe, SATA, USB.
> 
> This sentence, the register names, and
> the brcm_pmb_power_on/off_device/zone functions below make me worry that
> this should be a power domain controller (pm_genpd in drivers/soc)
> instead.
> Does PM in PMB stand for power management by chance?

It does, PMB stands for Power Management Bus.

> 
> If this actually cuts power to the USB and PCIe cores instead of just
> controlling reset lines, it would be better to implement this
> differently.

What is tricky is this is a combined reset/clock/power zones controller.
You rarely turn off/assert one of those without also turning
off/asserting the others.
-- 
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-08 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-19 12:55 [PATCH V2 0/2] reset: support Broadcom's PMB Rafał Miłecki
2020-11-19 12:55 ` [PATCH V2 1/2] dt-bindings: reset: document Broadcom's PMB binding Rafał Miłecki
2020-12-07 22:05   ` Rob Herring
2020-11-19 12:56 ` [PATCH V2 2/2] reset: brcm-pmb: add driver for Broadcom's PMB Rafał Miłecki
2020-12-08 11:02   ` Philipp Zabel
2020-12-08 20:20     ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2020-12-09 11:24       ` Philipp Zabel
2020-12-11 11:34         ` Rafał Miłecki

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