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

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

> 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,

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

     pcie_rc: pcie@48400000 {
       compatible = "st,stm32mp25-pcie-rc";
       phys = <&combophy PHY_TYPE_PCIE>;
       phy-names = "pcie-phy";

         pcie@0,0 {
         reg = <0x0000 0 0 0 0>;
       };
     };

     pcie_ep: pcie@48400000 {
       compatible = "st,stm32mp25-pcie-ep";
       phys = <&combophy PHY_TYPE_PCIE>;
       phy-names = "pcie-phy";
     };

But I have no experience with multiple root-port systems, I'm open for 
the best :)

Thanks

Christian