[PATCH v5 3/3] ARM: OMAP2+: onenand: prepare for gpmc driver migration
From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren)
Date: 2012-07-04 07:51:59
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* Mohammed, Afzal [off-list ref] [120704 00:05]:
Hi Tony, On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 13:47:47, Tony Lindgren wrote:quoted
* Jon Hunter [off-list ref] [120702 10:30]:quoted
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2. Provide some sort of "retime" callback that the gpmc driver can call at probe time to calculate the timings.Yes how about the gpmc using driver code registers itself with the gpmc code and also registers it's retime function with the gpmc? That way the gpmc fck stays inside the gpmc code, and the driver specific retime function should be able to do the calculation based on driver clocks. The retime function needs to have also a pointer to driver private data for it's clocks etc.Sorry, not sure whether I follow you properly, based on what has been understood, will try to rephrase, All the present gpmc timing calculation done in arch/arm/mach-omap2/gpmc-* to be moved to gpmc driver. And all the peripheral drivers using gpmc, i.e like smsc911x, tusb6010 needs to register their retime function with gpmc driver. And gpmc driver will invoke these registered retime function, when clock frequency changes. But wouldn't it need changes in the existing drivers like smsc911x that are used by multiple architectures with gpmc specific registration (put under a macro ?). We will be having gpmc driver code that contains knowledge about peripheral timing calculation, seems there is no way out of this. Peripheral agnostic gpmc code may not happen it seems
It depends. For some drivers scaling both gpmc clock and the device clock can happen, like with tusb6010 for example. But the smsc911x does not know about the clocks.. So to additional changes to the driver would be required to if device clocks need scaling. But for now, we should be able to do it at gpmc level with the retime function, or just disable DFS for those clocks if not supported. The ideal solution in the long run would be to have gpmc scaling frequency as the bus and device scaling frequency using cpufreq/devicefreq whatever notifiers.
In that case gpmc driver probe would have to be relieved of the task of setting up gpmc timings as we have to wait till peripheral drivers register their callback, right ?, seems in that case no timing information needs (or can be) to be passed from DT
Well we should pass all the gpmc timing information from DT. And then the driver also still needs to register it's retime function with gpmc.
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It seems this retime function may need to be called by the gpmc code when L3 changes, and the driver code if the driver is switching between runtime and idle clocks like tusb6010 for example does.I believe you are referring to tusb6010_platform_retime(), other than during initial setup, i.e. in tusb6010_setup_interface(), it is not invoked. tusb6010_platform_retime() is an exported symbol, unless I am missing something it is not invoked other than during initial setup. Did find this function in tusb6010.c, it is commented out, may be this was present earlier ?
Hmm yes looks like it's commented out.. But in theory the retime function should be called between idle clock and runtime clock. And also for DFS, so it's something we should be considered for proper gpmc support. Regards, Tony