Re: [PATCHv9 0/2] Add Allwinner SoCs PWM support

[Maxime Ripard]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 03:11:26PM +0100, Olliver Schinagl wrote:
> 
> On 18-11-14 14:54, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 02:47:33PM +0100, Olliver Schinagl wrote:
> >>Hey Alexandre,
> >>
> >>On 05-11-14 16:15, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>This patch series adds support for the PWM controller found on the Allwinner
> >>>SoCs.
> >>>
> >>>The first patch adds the driver itself.
> >>>The second patch adds the DT binding documentation
> >>>
> >>>Changes in v8:
> >>>  - renamed the driver sun4i as the PWM IP is different in the next sunxi SoCs
> >>Why did you decide to rename it to sun4i? From your bindings document I
> >>understand you still support sun4i and sun7i, what happened to sun5i?
> >>
> >>I went over the datasheets of sun4i, sun5i and sun7i and the disp_lcd.c from
> >>the latest linux-sunxi kernels and have to agree, they are all 4
> >>inconsistent and messy, but I'm not sure what you mean with PWM IP is
> >>different in next sunxi soc's. is sun5i different to sun4i? is sun7i
> >>different? or is sun6i (A31), sun8i (a80) and sun9i (A23) different?
> >>
> >>What I get from the datasheet is, that sun4i and sun5i are exactly the same,
> >>with the exception that sun5i only has 1 PWM (~exposed~). I belive that is
> >>easily solved with the bindings by having allwinner-sun4i and allwinner
> >>sun5i bindings if I'm not mistaken.
> >>
> >>As for sun7i compared to the other ones, according to disp_lcd.c sun5i and
> >>sun7i should behave exactly the same. This is contradicting to the
> >>datasheet, where sun4i and sun5i are the same.
> >>
> >>So what are the major differences that I can see between the 3? sun4i
> >>defines the PWM prescaler register value 0b1111 as being undefined, and
> >>sun5i and sun7i as /1? Did you verify this (I haven't I admit, i bumped into
> >>this while looking for your patch ;-) )? I wouldn't be supprised if it where
> >>a typo on allwinners end in the datasheet ... disp_lcd.c stops at 72000 for
> >>the last entry. We should just check sun4i, sun5i and sun7i hardware to see
> >>if it behaves the same with a prescaler of 0b1111, which I would not be
> >>totally surprised if it did.
> >>
> >>The other difference I notice is that sun7i and sun5i use 16bit period
> >>register where sun4i uses a 8bit register. This is probably the only reason
> >>why they put a #ifdef in disp_lcd.c, calculations turn out differently. I
> >>don't recognize this behavior at all in your driver however. I do think they
> >>that there is a difference here, since they did split up the original driver
> >>here because of this difference.
> >>
> >>The pre-scaler bypass bit and pwm ready bit you all ready take care of :)
> >A31 and later are using a different IP, that is not supported by this
> >driver.
>
> Ah, see that was not clear to me ;) Also a comment in the code would be
> helpful how the 8bit vs 16bit period register is being handled with regards
> to sun4i and sun7i. I can't seem to spot where this is taken into account,
> since the disp_lcd.c code suggests there is supposedly some difference? I
> can't tell from their code what is really going on, since they are using
> unsigned 32 bit integers and crap that in the lower and upper half of the
> 16bit register, so maybe the register has always been 16bit but the docs are
> simply wrong? But then why differentiate between the two chip generations
> ...

Is this a bug report? Or just some theorical issues that we might
never encounter?

> >This driver only support the controller introduced with the A10, that
> >only saw minor differences between SoCs, like you have shown.
> >
> >>Finally, though I'm sure I should have replied to it inline in the actual
> >>code, but hoping i can let it slip through here is that you define your
> >>local data as:
> >>
> >>+ static const struct sun4i_pwm_data sun4i_pwm_data_a20 = {
> >>
> >>which looks really strange to me, since there is no a20 using the sun4i
> >>architecture :) I know it's just nitpicking, it just looks really odd. Maybe
> >>the compatible naming works just as well? sun4i_pwm_data; sun7i_pwm_data
> >>(and sun5i_pwm_data if you want to take care of only pwm0, only pwm1 (if we
> >>ever encounter such a configuration, disabled pwm0, enabled pwm1) or both to
> >>be used?)
> >This driver is name sun4i_pwm, hence the prefix.
>
> Ah right, unrelated, but I guess I should change my sunxi driver name to
> sun4i as well then?

What? Why?

Maxime

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