Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ata: Add APM X-Gene SATA driver

[Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>]

Hi,

On Wednesday 13 November 2013 11:03 AM, Loc Ho wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I need to call a function into the PHY driver to say force an
> specific speed, how would one do this? I notice the USB have a bunch

There are a bunch of *ops* currently available in the PHY framework which you
can use like phy_init, phy_exit, phy_power_on, phy_power_off. That should be
good enough IMO. If you need any other ops we can have a discussion here.

Thanks
Kishon
> of functions. Would I need to introduce an structure for SATA as well
> that have a number of required functions that upper layer can call?
> 
> -Loc
> 
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wednesday 13 November 2013 04:09 AM, Loc Ho wrote:
>>> Hi Arnd,
>>>
>>> I looked at the PHY generic framework and come across this statement
>>> below. Our SATA PHY is embedded into the SoC. Should I ignore this
>>
>> Is your PHY embedded into the SoC or embedded into the SATA controller? If it's
>> within the SoC but not embedded into the SATA controller, you can use PHY
>> framework as the PHY is in a different IP and has a separate address space for
>> itself.
>> If it's within the SATA controller, then you might very well implement the PHY
>> logic in your SATA controller driver itself.
>>> statement below and implement the PHY driver using this framework?
>>>
>>> +This framework will be of use only to devices that use external PHY (PHY
>>> +functionality is not embedded within the controller).
>>
>> It means for PHYs embedded within the SATA controller and not within the SoC ;-)
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kishon
>>>
>>> -Loc
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 12 November 2013, Loc Ho wrote:
>>>>> Hi Arnd/Olof,
>>>>>
>>>>> I looked over the phy code for USB and NET. There isn't such PHY
>>>>> infrastructure for SATA from what I can tell. It seems like I will
>>>>> need to put this all together. I am thinking about porting the USB
>>>>> version over (with changes for SATA) and put it under
>>>>> "./drivers/ata/phy". Any suggestion?
>>>>
>>>> Please have a look at the patches under the subject "Generic PHY Framework"
>>>> posted by Kishon Vijay Abraham. I thought they would have made it in
>>>> by now, but I have not followed the recent kernels closely since I am
>>>> on parental leave at the moment.
>>>>
>>>> IIRC they should unify USB, SATA and other PHY codes, but not network.
>>>>
>>>>         Arnd
>>