Re: [PATCH 2/8] dt-bindings: can: renesas,rcar-canfd: Document RZ/G3S SoC
From: Conor Dooley
Date: Tue Jul 07 2026 - 12:21:49 EST
On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 01:24:12PM +0300, Claudiu Beznea wrote:
> From: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The CAN FD controller found on the Renesas RZ/G3S SoC is largely compatible
> with the variant present on the RZ/G3E SoC. The main differences are:
> - the RZ/G3S provides only two CAN FD channels
> - the RZ/G3S supports only CAN FD operation; the Channel n CAN FD
> Configuration Register does not implement the bits used to select
> classical CAN-only mode (bit 30) or CAN FD-only mode (bit 28);
> consequently, bit 31 (CAN FD Frame Distinction Enable) of the same
> register is also not implemented
> - some bits in several registers (mainly reserved or status bits) are
> read-write on the RZ/G3S but read-only on the RZ/G3E; their behavior is
> otherwise identical: the bits read back as 0 on both SoCs and software
> is allowed to write only 0 to them on the RZ/G3S
> - the RZ/G3S provides 128 acceptance filters, compared to 64 on the
> RZ/G3E
> - the RZ/G3S can use PCLK clock as the CAN FD clock source through an
> internal clock divider, while also supporting an external CAN FD clock
> source
>
> Since:
> - the SoC clock generator provides to the CAN IP only the peripheral and
> the RAM clocks
> - when sourced from the peripheral clock, the CAN-FD clock is obtained
> inside the IP itself by dividing the peripheral clock
> - the assigned-clocks and assigned-clock-rates properties are specific to
> the CAN-FD clock
> the assigned-clocks and assigned-clock-rates properties were dropped from
> the required properties list of the Renesas RZ/G3S SoC.
>
> Add documentation for the Renesas RZ/G3S SoC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
No idea if patchwork will pick up the response to Sashiko, but the thing
it raises about the fd properties seems valid.
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