Re: [PATCH RESEND V4 5/9] of: Add NVIDIA Tegra xHCI controller binding

From: Andrew Bresticker
Date: Thu Oct 30 2014 - 13:26:56 EST


On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:19:21AM -0700, Andrew Bresticker wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Thierry Reding
>> <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 09:37:14AM -0700, Andrew Bresticker wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Thierry Reding
>> >> <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 03:27:50PM -0700, Andrew Bresticker wrote:
>> >> > [...]
>> >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/nvidia,tegra124-xusb-padctl.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/nvidia,tegra124-xusb-padctl.txt
>> >> > [...]
>> >> >> +Optional properties:
>> >> >> +-------------------
>> >> >> +- vbus-{0,1,2}-supply: VBUS regulator for the corresponding UTMI pad.
>> >> >> +- vddio-hsic-supply: VDDIO regulator for the HSIC pads.
>> >> >> +- nvidia,usb3-port-{0,1}-lane: PCIe/SATA lane to which the corresponding USB3
>> >> >> + port is mapped. See <dt-bindings/pinctrl/pinctrl-tegra-xusb.h> for the list
>> >> >> + of valid values.
>> >> >
>> >> > I dislike how we now need to provide a list of all pins in the header
>> >> > file, where previously we used strings for this. This could become very
>> >> > ugly if the set of pins changes in future generations of this IP block.
>> >> >
>> >> > Could we instead derive this from the pinmux nodes? For example you have
>> >> > this in the example below:
>> >> >
>> >> > usb3p0 {
>> >> > nvidia,lanes = "pcie-0";
>> >> > ...
>> >> > };
>> >> >
>> >> > Perhaps what we need is to either key off the node name or add another
>> >> > property, such as:
>> >> >
>> >> > nvidia,usb3-port = <0>;
>> >> >
>> >> > This would match the nvidia,usb2-port property that you've added below.
>> >>
>> >> That is actually how I described the USB3 port to SS lane mapping
>> >> originally, but in review of an earlier version of this series,
>> >> Stephen suggested that I make it a separate, not pinconfig property
>> >> since it wasn't a value written directly to the hardware. I'm fine
>> >> with changing it back as the pinconfig property makes more sense to me
>> >> as well.
>> >
>> > Hmm... I had considered it a mux option of the specific lane. If the
>> > function is usb3, it'd still need to be muxed to one of the ports. So
>> > it's additional information associated with the usb3 function.
>> >
>> > I did look through the driver changes and can't really make out which
>> > part of the code actually performs this assignment. Can you point me to
>> > it?
>>
>> There's not really an assignment. The property is used to map between
>> a lane (e.g. PCIe-0 or SATA) and the USB3.0 port it's mapped to. For
>> an example of where it's used, take a look at usb3_phy_power_on().
>> There are certain per-lane registers which need to be programmed in
>> addition to the per-USB3.0 port pad registers. This mapping is used
>> to determine which lane needs to be programmed.
>
> Are you saying the mapping of lane to USB port is fixed? That is, PCIe-0
> lane is always used for USB port X and SATA always for USB port Y?

No, sorry if that was unclear, it's not fixed - it's a board specific property.
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