[PATCH v3 00/11] Raspberry Pi PoE HAT fan support

Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-11-04T10:40:54Z

The aim of this series is to add support to the fan found on RPi's PoE
HAT. Some commentary on the design can be found below. But the imporant
part to the people CC'd here not involved with PWM is that, in order to
achieve this properly, we also have to fix the firmware interface the
driver uses to communicate with the PWM bus (and many other low level
functions). Specifically, we have to make sure the firmware interface
isn't unbound while consumers are still up. So, patch #1 introduces
reference counting in the firwmware interface driver and patches #2 to
#7 update all firmware users. Patches #8 to #10 introduce the new PWM
driver.

I sent everything as a single series as the final version of the PWM
drivers depends on the firwmare fixes, but I'll be happy to split this
into two separate series if you think it's better.

--- Original cover letter below ---

This series aims at adding support to RPi's official PoE HAT fan[1].

The HW setup is the following:

| Raspberry Pi | PoE HAT |
arm core -> Mailbox -> RPi co-processor -> I2C -> Atmel MCU -> PWM -> FAN

The arm cores have only access to the mailbox interface, as i2c0, even if
physically accessible, is to be used solely by the co-processor
(VideoCore 4/6).

This series implements a PWM bus, and has pwm-fan sitting on top of it as per
this discussion: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/2/486. Although this design has a
series of shortcomings:

- It depends on a DT binding: it's not flexible if a new hat shows up with new
functionality, we're not 100% sure we'll be able to expand it without
breaking backwards compatibility. But without it we can't make use of DT
thermal-zones, which IMO is overkill.

- We're using pwm-fan, writing a hwmon driver would, again, give us more
flexibility, but it's not really needed at the moment.

I personally think that it's not worth the effort, it's unlikely we'll get
things right in advance. And ultimately, if the RPi people come up with
something new, we can always write a new driver/bindings from scratch (as in
not reusing previous code).

That said, I'm more than happy to change things if there is a consensus that
another design will do the trick.

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-power-over-ethernet-poe-hat/

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Changes since v2:
- Introduce devm_rpi_firmware_get()
- Small cleanups in PWM driver

Changes since v1:
- Address PWM driver changes
- Fix binding, now with 2 cells
- Add reference count to rpi_firmware_get()

Nicolas Saenz Julienne (11):
firmware: raspberrypi: Introduce devm_rpi_firmware_get()
clk: bcm: rpi: Release firmware handle on unbind
gpio: raspberrypi-exp: Release firmware handle on unbind
reset: raspberrypi: Release firmware handle on unbind
soc: bcm: raspberrypi-power: Release firmware handle on unbind
staging: vchiq: Release firmware handle on unbind
input: raspberrypi-ts: Release firmware handle when not needed
firmware: raspberrypi: Get rid of rpi_firmware_get()
dt-bindings: pwm: Add binding for RPi firmware PWM bus
DO NOT MERGE: ARM: dts: Add RPi's official PoE hat support
pwm: Add Raspberry Pi Firmware based PWM bus

.../arm/bcm/raspberrypi,bcm2835-firmware.yaml | 20 ++
arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dts | 54 +++++
drivers/clk/bcm/clk-raspberrypi.c | 2 +-
drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c | 37 ++-
drivers/gpio/gpio-raspberrypi-exp.c | 2 +-
drivers/input/touchscreen/raspberrypi-ts.c | 2 +-
drivers/pwm/Kconfig | 9 +
drivers/pwm/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/pwm/pwm-raspberrypi-poe.c | 216 ++++++++++++++++++
drivers/reset/reset-raspberrypi.c | 2 +-
drivers/soc/bcm/raspberrypi-power.c | 2 +-
.../interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c | 2 +-
.../pwm/raspberrypi,firmware-pwm.h | 13 ++
include/soc/bcm2835/raspberrypi-firmware.h | 6 +-
14 files changed, 356 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/pwm/pwm-raspberrypi-poe.c
create mode 100644 include/dt-bindings/pwm/raspberrypi,firmware-pwm.h

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