RE: Where to power on the wifi device before loading the driver.

Wei Ni
2012-06-19T04:26:08Z

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 09:23:35, Philip Rakity wrote:
>Why can't you use the regulator notify to get called back on power or
>voltage change options to plumb in the manipulation of the gpio. I can
>imagine you might need to add a notify call in core.c if you need to
>assert the gpio before power is applied

Yes, we can use the regulator notify, but the Tegra30 support is via device tree, I think there have no special board file to run the call back.

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>Subject: RE: Where to power on the wifi device before loading the driver.
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>On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 23:49:10, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> I talked with Franky, this power sequence is generally for 4329, so
>>> it mean this sequence can be put into the wifi driver.
>>> We can use the virtual platform device both for OOB and non OOB.
>>> I will send out patches later.
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>>Can you please expand on what a "virtual platform device" is; device
>>tree typically represents real
>hardware rather than anything "virtual".
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>The "virtual platform device" is created before the real wifi device,
>so that it can pass the gpios to the driver, and power up the device before calling sdio_register_driver.
>But as Franky said, this power sequence is only generally for 4329, not
>for the USB dongle chips. So it's not a good idea to add this "power up" in brcmfmac.
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>>Now if this means adding a child node under the SDIO controller to
>>represent the attached device, and
>storing any settings required by that device in that child node, that's
>probably a reasonable basic approach.
>>
>>BTW, which GPIO is the power GPIO; is it WF_EN on the schematic? That
>>seems reasonable to represent
>as a GPIO rather than a regulator since it connects directly into the
>WiFi device as a GPIO, and its use within the WiFi device can indeed be
>governed purely internally to the WiFi driver/HW. However, if this is some GPIO that controls the power to e.g.
>>VBAT3V3_IN_WF, VDDIO_WF, or other power supply to the WiFi card, then
>>it'd be better represented as a
>regulator, since the control point is outside the WiFi device.
>
>I think Rakesh may can answer this.
>
>Wei.
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