Re: [PATCH 3/3] riscv: dts: thead: th1520: add soft PWM fan for Lichee Pi 4A

[Icenowy Zheng <uwu@icenowy.me>]

在 2025-08-22星期五的 14:32 -0700，Drew Fustini写道：
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 05:32:09PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
> > Because of the SoM+Dock design of Lichee Pi 4A, heat dissipation
> > does
> > not work well; fortunately it comes with a fan port with PWM
> > driving
> > capability.
> > 
> > As the hardware PWM controller of Lichee Pi 4A isn't ready yet,
> > drive it
> > with pwm-gpio driver (software PWM) now.
> > 
> > A long PWM period is used, because not only software PWM is used,
> > but
> > also the fan port is a 2-pin one and fast PWM might confuse the
> > BLDC
> > driver on fans.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <uwu@icenowy.me>
> > ---
> >  .../boot/dts/thead/th1520-lichee-pi-4a.dts    | 53
> > +++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/riscv/boot/dts/thead/th1520.dtsi         |  2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/boot/dts/thead/th1520-lichee-pi-4a.dts
> > b/arch/riscv/boot/dts/thead/th1520-lichee-pi-4a.dts
> > index 4020c727f09e8..f696db01353c5 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/boot/dts/thead/th1520-lichee-pi-4a.dts
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/boot/dts/thead/th1520-lichee-pi-4a.dts
> > @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
> >   */
> >  
> >  #include "th1520-lichee-module-4a.dtsi"
> > +#include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
> >  
> >  / {
> >         model = "Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A";
> > @@ -28,6 +29,58 @@ aliases {
> >         chosen {
> >                 stdout-path = "serial0:115200n8";
> >         };
> > +
> > +       gpio_pwm: gpio-pwm {
> > +               #pwm-cells = <3>;
> > +               compatible = "pwm-gpio";
> > +               gpios = <&gpio3 3 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
> > +       };
> 
> I think the node name needs to be 'pwm' instead of 'gpio-pwm' as
> dtbs_check
> warns that:

Sounds reasonable, although 'pwm' seems to be too generic.

But the recommended names below looks quite generic too... Is it just
some copy-pasta?

Well, maybe just take 'pwm' or 'pwm-0' now?

> 
> gpio-pwm: $nodename:0: 'gpio-pwm' does not match '^pwm(@.*|-([0-
> 9]|[1-9][0-9]+))?$'
> from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/pwm/pwm-gpio.yaml#
> 
> Thanks,
> Drew


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