Re: [PATCH v1 00/15] create power sequencing subsystem

Matthias Kaehlcke
2022-10-13T19:50:27Z

Hi Dmitry,

Do you still plan to refresh this series?

I know there have been multiple attempts to get something similar
landed in the past 10 year or so. Your series didn't seem to get
much pushback from maintainers, might be worth sending a refresh :)

Thanks

Matthias

On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 06:53:52AM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> This is a proposed power sequencer subsystem. This is a
> generification of the MMC pwrseq code. The subsystem tries to abstract
> the idea of complex power-up/power-down/reset of the devices.
>
> The primary set of devices that promted me to create this patchset is
> the Qualcomm BT+WiFi family of chips. They reside on serial+platform
> or serial + SDIO interfaces (older generations) or on serial+PCIe (newer
> generations). They require a set of external voltage regulators to be
> powered on and (some of them) have separate WiFi and Bluetooth enable
> GPIOs.
>
> The major drawback for now is the lack of proper PCIe integration
> At this moment support for PCIe is hacked up to be able to test the
> PCIe part of qca6390. Proper PCIe support would require automatically
> powering up the devices before the scan basing on the proper device
> structure in the device tree. This two last patches are noted as WIP and
> are included into the patchset for the purpose of testing WiFi on newer
> chips (like qca6390/qca6391).
>
> Changes since RFC v2:
> - Add documentation for the pwrseq code. Document data structures,
> macros and exported functions.
> - Export of_pwrseq_xlate_onecell()
> - Add separate pwrseq_set_drvdata() function to follow the typical API
> design
> - Remove pwrseq_get_optional()/devm_pwrseq_get_optional()
> - Moved code to handle old mmc-pwrseq binding to the MMC patch
> - Split of_pwrseq_xlate_onecell() support to a separate patch
>
> Changes since RFC v1:
> - Provider pwrseq fallback support
> - Implement fallback support in pwrseq_qca.
> - Mmove susclk handling to pwrseq_qca.
> - Significantly simplify hci_qca.c changes, by dropping all legacy
> code. Now hci_qca uses only pwrseq calls to power up/down bluetooth
> parts of the chip.
>
>
>
>
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