Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH v2 06/14] ARM: sun8i: clk: Add clk-factor rate application method

[OndÅej Jirman]

On 15.7.2016 16:22, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 15 July 2016 at 15:48, OndÅej Jirman <megous@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 15.7.2016 15:27, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
>>> On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 12:38:54 +0200
>>> OndÅej Jirman <megous@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> If so, then yes, trying to switch to the 24MHz oscillator before
>>>>> applying the factors, and then switching back when the PLL is stable
>>>>> would be a nice solution.
>>>>>
>>>>> I just checked, and all the SoCs we've had so far have that
>>>>> possibility, so if it works, for now, I'd like to stick to that.
>>>>
>>>> It would need to be tested. U-boot does the change only once, while the
>>>> kernel would be doing it all the time and between various frequencies
>>>> and PLL settings. So the issues may show up with this solution too.
>>>
>>> I don't think this is a good idea: the CPU clock may be changed at any
>>> time with the CPUFreq governor. I don't see the system moving from
>>> 1008MHz to 24MHz and then to 1200MHz when some computation is needed!
>>
>> PLL lock time is around 10-20us, I'd guess based on the number of loops
>> in the PLL lock wait loop. So unless you'll be switching frequencies
>> many times per second, this should be barely noticeable.
>>
>> But I'd like a different solution too.
> 
> Do you have a patch to test this?
> 
> For me changing CPU frequency on Orange Pi One always locks up the
> system. I keep running it on the u-boot setup 1.08GHz at 1.1V

Not anymore. But it's quite simple to hack it into the
drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-factors.c:clk_factors_set_rate()

You can look at u-boot arch/arm/mach-sunxi/clock_sun6i.c:clock_set_pll1
for how to change the CPU clock source.

> Thanks
> 
> Michal
>

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