Re: [PATCH v8 0/5] TH1520 SoC: Add AON firmware & power-domain support

[Drew Fustini <drew@pdp7.com>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 06:18:55PM +0100, Michal Wilczynski wrote:
> This patch series introduces and documents power management (PM) support and
> the AON firmware driver for the T-Head TH1520 SoC, as used on the LicheePi 4A
> board. While part of a larger effort to enable the Imagination BXM-4-64 GPU
> upstream, these patches can merge independently.
> 
> Bigger series cover letter:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250219140239.1378758-1-m.wilczynski@samsung.com/
> 
> This series is versioned to maintain continuity with the bigger patchset it is
> a subseries of. Please find below a changelog for the AON & power-domain:
> 
> v8:
> - add proper cleanup in the th1520_pd_probe()
> - add "suppress_bind_attrs = true", since there is no need to unbound the driver
>   during runtime. This simplifies the code by eliminating the remove function
> 
> v7:
> - add '#include <linux/slab.h", due to kernel robot issue
> 
> v6:
> - split the firmware & power-domain patches into a separate series
> 
> v5:
> - changed the AON driver to be a set of library functions rather than a
>   standalone driver
> 
> v4:
> - added workaround to disable AUDIO power domain to prevent firmware crashes
> 
> v3:
>  - consolidated device tree representation by merging aon and power-domain nodes
>    while maintaining separate drivers internally
>  - power-domain driver is now instantiated from within the aon driver
>  - fixed optional module dependencies in Kconfig
>  - added kernel-doc comments for all exported functions
>  - implemented th1520_aon_remove() to properly clean up mailbox channel
>    resources
> 
> v2:
>  - introduced a new firmware driver to manage power-related operations.
>  - rewrote the power-domain driver to function alongside the firmware driver.
>    These nodes in the device tree lack direct address spaces, despite
>    representing HW blocks. Control is achieved via firmware protocol messages
>    transmitted through a mailbox to the E902 core.
>  - added new dt-bindings for power and firmware nodes.
>  - ran dtbs_check and dt_binding_check to ensure compliance.
> 
> Michal Wilczynski (5):
>   dt-bindings: firmware: thead,th1520: Add support for firmware node
>   firmware: thead: Add AON firmware protocol driver
>   dt-bindings: power: Add TH1520 SoC power domains
>   pmdomain: thead: Add power-domain driver for TH1520
>   riscv: Enable PM_GENERIC_DOMAINS for T-Head SoCs
> 
>  .../bindings/firmware/thead,th1520-aon.yaml   |  53 ++++
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   5 +
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs                       |   1 +
>  drivers/firmware/Kconfig                      |   9 +
>  drivers/firmware/Makefile                     |   1 +
>  drivers/firmware/thead,th1520-aon.c           | 248 ++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/pmdomain/Kconfig                      |   1 +
>  drivers/pmdomain/Makefile                     |   1 +
>  drivers/pmdomain/thead/Kconfig                |  12 +
>  drivers/pmdomain/thead/Makefile               |   2 +
>  drivers/pmdomain/thead/th1520-pm-domains.c    | 218 +++++++++++++++
>  .../dt-bindings/power/thead,th1520-power.h    |  19 ++
>  .../linux/firmware/thead/thead,th1520-aon.h   | 200 ++++++++++++++
>  13 files changed, 770 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/thead,th1520-aon.yaml
>  create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/thead,th1520-aon.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/pmdomain/thead/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/pmdomain/thead/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/pmdomain/thead/th1520-pm-domains.c
>  create mode 100644 include/dt-bindings/power/thead,th1520-power.h
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/firmware/thead/thead,th1520-aon.h
> 
> -- 
> 2.34.1

For the series:

Acked-by: Drew Fustini <drew@pdp7.com>