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

[Christian Bruel <christian.bruel@foss.st.com>]

On 12/17/24 18:25, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> 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.

Parsing the child node to clock the IP seems weird. Note that 
hisilicon,kirin-pcie.yaml also declares the PHY at the controller level.

thanks

Christian




> 
> - Mani
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