Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] phy: qcom-qmp: Add support for DP in USB3+DP combo phy

From: Jonathan Marek
Date: Thu Sep 03 2020 - 19:25:46 EST


On 9/3/20 6:41 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
Quoting Jonathan Marek (2020-09-03 13:43:10)
On 9/2/20 7:02 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:

This code is based on a submission of this phy and PLL in the drm
subsystem.

I updated my upstream-based sm8150/sm8250 displayport stack [1] to use
these patches.

Great!


This commit [2] might interest you, so that you can consider what needs
to change between v3 and v4 PHYs. Note some of the V4 registers have the
same address as V3, so the diff could be smaller.

Looks like v4 will need to introduce a register indirection table for
the differences. Also need to add a table for the aux initial table
values and the calibration values for aux_cfg1. Seems like it won't be
too bad.

Does DP work with those patches with v4? You should make yourself the
author of commit d3c6da6f87eedb20ea1591aaae1ea4e63d7bd777 ;-)


Yes, it works, although the PHY is hardcoded to CC2 orientation and 4 lanes, SS PHY disabled, and hotplugging/TCPM doesn't work in all cases.


Do you have any plan for dealing with the SS PHY and DP PHY conflicting
with each other? For example, PHY_MODE_CTRL needs to be "DP_MODE" for
4-lane DP, "DP_MODE | USB3_MODE" for 2-lane DP + USB3, and (AFAIK)
"USB3_MODE" for superspeedplus usb (and it seems this gates some clocks,
so you can't read/write dp tx2 registers in 2-lane DP mode for example).

Right. I've seen that behavior as well.

From your cover letter it sounds like this isn't relevant to your
hardware, but it looks like both PHYs are writing to the dp_com region
which is still problematic. (in the branch I linked, I disabled the SS
PHY to test the DP PHY)

Right. I mentioned in the cover letter that this needs to hook into the
type-c subsystem somehow. I haven't done any of that work because I
don't have a configuration that is as dynamic. As long as the type-c
stuff can express my static configuration it will be fine. If you have
done any work there I'm happy to review the code and test it out on my
configuration.

The driver is setup for DP_MODE | USB3_MODE (i.e. concurrent mode) so it
is already hardcoded for the 2-lane use case that I have. If I didn't
connect two lanes from the phy to a USB hub I could support all the
different combinations but that isn't the case. On phones it is
basically the only case though because the pins from the usb3+dp phy go
straight to the type-c connector.

qcom_qmp_phy_com_init() is the only place I see the driver writing to it
and it is refcounted so basically the first phy to get initialized will
set things up in the common area. I suppose for supporting various use
cases like 4 lanes DP or 2 lanes DP and USB then that refcounting logic
will need to be changed. I'm not sure what is supposed to happen though.
I guess the USB host controller, i.e. dwc3, will have to know to stop
trying to use the phy and then power down and let the DP controller take
over the phy? It's a dance of three or four drivers.

The solution could be that the DP PHY has priority over the SS PHY. If the DP PHY is enabled with 4 lanes then it should go into DP_MODE, 1-2 lanes it goes into concurrent mode, and USB3_MODE if disabled. The problem then is that the SS PHY can't be enabled while the DP PHY is enabled (since it will be clock gated), so enabling the SS PHY needs to be deferred to when the DP PHY is disabled. I think that is reasonable?

Note I have a TCPM (typec + USB PD) driver [1] which is required to negotiate the DP altmode (and provides altmode events to the DP driver so it can enable/disable the PHY). My problem is the qcom PMIC doesn't provide exactly what TCPM wants, and I don't have access to PMIC documentation, so its difficult for me to make a fully working TCPM driver. Also conflicts with [2] since both drivers use the typec PMIC block...

[1] https://github.com/flto/linux/commit/820265ce8535c6396083c5a884870f0f44603a72
[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11710371/


Also some issues I noticed:
- used QSERDES_COM_RESETSM_CNTRL instead of
QSERDES_V3_COM_RESETSM_CNTRL2, which has different value
- in sc7180_dpphy_cfg, .regs is NULL, which results in NULL references

Can you add these as inline review comments? Would help me understand
what you're talking about. Thanks for the review!