Re: [PATCH 0/6] Binding and driver for "dumb" clock generators

[Anand Moon <linux.amoon@gmail.com>]

Hi Heiko,

On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 at 18:02, Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> wrote:
>
> Rockchip boards with PCIe3 controllers inside the soc (rk3568, rk3588) have
> external clock generators on the board to generate the needed 100MHz
> reference clock the PCIe3 controller needs.
>
> Often these clock generators need supplies to be enabled to run.
>
> Modelling this clock has taken a number of shapes:
> - The rk3568 Rock-3a modelled the generator-regulator as "phy-supply" [0]
>   &pcie30phy {
>         phy-supply = <&vcc3v3_pi6c_03>;
>         status = "okay";
>   };
>   which is of course not part of the binding
>
> - On the Rock-5-ITX the supply of the clock generator is controlled by
>   the same gpio as the regulator supplying the the port connected to the
>   pcie30x4 controller, so if this controller probes first, both
>   controllers will just run. But if the pcie30x2 controller probes first
>   (which has a different supply), the controller will stall at the first
>   dbi read.
>
> - Recent Theobroma-Systems boards (Jaguar and Tiger) modelled their
>   generator as a combination of fixed clock and gpio-gate, which works
>   because the generator's vdd-supply is always on and only the output-
>   enable pin needs to be toggled.
>
>
> So this series attempts to improve the situation by allowing to model
> these clock generators as actual entities in the devicetree, to not have
> them just accidentially work or break bindings.
>

I was wondering if these changes apply to Radxa Rock 5b SbC, it does not have
pi6c557 clock generator but the schematic supports GEN_CLK_100MHZ is
input to CLKin0 which is generated via the VCC3V3_PI6C_05 (100MHz,3.3V,3225)
regulator.

[1] https://dl.radxa.com/rock5/5b/docs/hw/radxa_rock5b_v13_sch.pdf

Thanks
-Anand

>
> [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-rock-3a.dts#n605
>
> Heiko Stuebner (6):
>   dt-bindings: clocks: add binding for generic clock-generators
>   clk: add driver for generic clock generators
>   arm64: dts: rockchip: fix the pcie clock generator on Rock 5 ITX
>   arm64: dts: rockchip: use clock-generator for pcie-refclk on
>     rk3588-jaguar
>   arm64: dts: rockchip: use clock-generator for pcie-refclk on
>     rk3588-tiger
>   arm64: dts: rockchip: add pinctrl for clk-generator gpio on
>     rk3588-tiger
>
>  .../bindings/clock/clock-generator.yaml       |  62 ++++++++
>  .../arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3588-jaguar.dts |  13 +-
>  .../boot/dts/rockchip/rk3588-rock-5itx.dts    |  34 ++++-
>  .../arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3588-tiger.dtsi |  21 +--
>  drivers/clk/Kconfig                           |   7 +
>  drivers/clk/Makefile                          |   1 +
>  drivers/clk/clk-generator.c                   | 133 ++++++++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-generator.yaml
>  create mode 100644 drivers/clk/clk-generator.c
>
> --
> 2.39.2
>
>