Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] dt-bindings: pwm: Add Xilinx AXI Timer
From: Michal Simek <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-02 12:41:04
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On 7/1/21 5:32 PM, Sean Anderson wrote:
On 6/30/21 9:47 AM, Michal Simek wrote:quoted
On 5/28/21 11:45 PM, Sean Anderson wrote:quoted
This adds a binding for the Xilinx LogiCORE IP AXI Timer. This device is a "soft" block, so it has many parameters which would not be configurable in most hardware. This binding is usually automatically generated by Xilinx's tools, so the names and values of some properties must be kept as they are. Replacement properties have been provided for new device trees. Because we need to init timer devices so early in boot, the easiest way to configure things is to use a device tree property. For the moment this is 'xlnx,pwm', but this could be extended/renamed/etc. in the future if these is a need for a generic property. Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <redacted> --- Changes in v4: - Remove references to generate polarity so this can get merged - Predicate PWM driver on the presence of #pwm-cells - Make some properties optional for clocksource drivers Changes in v3: - Mark all boolean-as-int properties as deprecated - Add xlnx,pwm and xlnx,gen?-active-low properties. - Make newer replacement properties mutually-exclusive with what they replace - Add an example with non-deprecated properties only. Changes in v2: - Use 32-bit addresses for example binding .../bindings/pwm/xlnx,axi-timer.yaml | 85 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 85 insertions(+) create mode 100644Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/xlnx,axi-timer.yamlquoted
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diff --gita/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/xlnx,axi-timer.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/xlnx,axi-timer.yamlquoted
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new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..48a280f96e63--- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/xlnx,axi-timer.yamlI don't think this is the right location for this. I have done some grepping and I think this should be done in a different way. I pretty much like solution around "ti,omap3430-timer" which is calling dmtimer_systimer_select_best() and later dmtimer_is_preferred() which in this case would allow us to get rid of cases which are not suitable for clocksource and clockevent. And there is drivers/pwm/pwm-omap-dmtimer.c which has link to timer which is providing functions for it's functionality. I have also looked at Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/nxp,tpm-timer.yaml which is also the same device.Ok, I will move this under bindings/timer.quoted
And sort of curious if you look athttps://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/ip_documentation/axi_timer/v2_0/pg079-axi-timer.pdfquoted
( Figure 1-1) that PWM is taking input from generate out 0 and generate out 1 which is maybe can be modeled is any output and pwm driver can register inputs for pwm driver.I don't think that is a good model, since several bits (GENERATE, PWM, etc) need to be set in the TCSR, and we need to coordinate changes between timers closely to keep our contract for apply_state(). Although that is how the hardware is organized, the requirements of the clocksource and pwm subsystems are very different.
There is another upstream solution done by samsung. Where they use samsung,pwm-outputs property to identify PWMs. I think that make sense to consider to identify which timer should be clocksource/clockevent because with MB SMP this has to be done to pair timer with cpu for clockevents. You can see drivers here. drivers/clocksource/smasung_pwm_timer.c drivers/pwm/pwm-samsung.c Uwe: How does it sound to you? Thanks, Michal