Re: [PATCH v8 14/16] ARM: dts: Introduce STM32F429 MCU

Arnd Bergmann
2015-05-13T19:38:46Z

On Wednesday 13 May 2015 20:29:12 Daniel Thompson wrote:
> On 13/05/15 17:54, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> > 2015-05-13 18:37 GMT+02:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>:
> >>
> >> We should definitely try to use the same compatible string for all of
> >> them, and make a binding that is easy to use.
> >>
> >> I haven't fully understood the requirements for the various parts that
> >> are involved here. My understanding so far was that the driver could
> >> use the index from the first cell and compute
> >>
> >> void __iomem *reset_reg = rcc_base + 0x10 + 4 * index;
> >> void __iomem *clock_reg = rcc_base + 0x30 + 4 * index;
> >
> > This calculation is true, but we have to take into account there is a
> > hole in the middle, between AHB3, and APB1 register:
>
> ... and equally importantly, only allows us to use hardware mappings for
> the gated clocks.
>
> > AHB1RSTR : offset = 0x10, index = 0
> > AHB2RSTR : offset = 0x14, index = 1
> > AHB3RSTR : offset = 0x18, index = 2
> > <HOLE > : offset = 0x1c, index = 3
> > APB1RSTR : offset = 0x20, index = 4
> > APB2RSTR : offset = 0x24, index = 5
> >
> > So we have to carefully document this hole in the bindings, maybe by
> > listing indexes in the documentation?
>
> The register set has PLL, mux and dividers in the registers at 0x00,
> 0x04 and 0x08.
>
> Many of these clocks can be kept out of DT entirely because they are
> only there to feed other parts of the clock tree. However some of the
> dividers flow directly into cells that appear in device tree (such as
> the systick) and so we need to be able to reference them.
>
> In other words the proposed mapping cannot allow us to express the
> dividers properly (because the index would have to be negative):
> void __iomem *clock_reg = rcc_base + 0x30 + 4 * index;
>
> Thus I'd favour using different indexes for reset and clock bindings,
> both using the naive mapping function:
> void __iomem *reg = rcc_base + 4 * index
>
> I think that its so much easier to check against the datasheet like
> that. Admittedly is we follow the block-of-4-bytes idiom we have to
> divide a hex number by four but thats not so hard and we end up with:
>
> resets = <&rcc 8 0>;
> clocks = <&rcc 16 0>;
>
> At the end of the day if we say we want to follow the datasheet, lets be
> do it in the most direct way properly.
>
>
> PS
> I've written a custom lookup function to to get from the DT index to an
> offset into the struct clk *array I'm using. That means I don't care
> much about any big holes in the register space.

How about using the first cell to indicate the type (pll, mux, div, gate)
and the second cell for the number (between 0 and 256)? That way, the
gates numbers would match the reset numbers, and your internal mapping
function would look a bit nicer.

Arnd