Re: [PATCH 2/3] dt-bindings: net: Document GBETH bindings for Renesas RZ/V2H(P) SoC

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Sun Mar 02 2025 - 16:40:19 EST


> > > I can certainly do that, but not sure in the DT we will be describing
> > > the HW correctly then. I'll have to hide *-180 clocks In the DT and
> > > handle and turning on/off these clocks in the clock driver.
> > ...
> > > clocks = <&cpg CPG_MOD 0xbd>,
> > > <&cpg CPG_MOD 0xbc>,
> > > <&cpg CPG_CORE R9A09G057_GBETH_0_CLK_PTP_REF_I>,
> > > <&cpg CPG_MOD 0xb8>,
> > > <&cpg CPG_MOD 0xb9>,
> > > <&cpg CPG_MOD 0xba>,
> > > <&cpg CPG_MOD 0xbb>;
> >
> > Your SoC designer really implemented the 0° and 180° as two separate
> > independently controllable clocks?
> >
> Yes there are separate bits to turn ON/OFF the 0° and 180° clocks.

Do you know what the clock tree actually looks like? I can think of
two different ways this could be implemented:

----+----------on/off---
|
+----not---on/off---

or

-------on/off-+------------------
|
+---not---on/off---

In the first, the clocks are siblings. In the second there is
parent/child relationship.

Andrew