Re: [PATCH 03/10] devicetree: bindings: add bindings for ahci-da850

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

2017-01-16 13:45 GMT+01:00 Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@xxxxxx>:
> On Monday 16 January 2017 03:43 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> 2017-01-13 20:25 GMT+01:00 David Lechner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>> A clock multiplier property seems redundant if you are specifying a clock.
>>> It should be possible to get the rate from the clock to determine which
>>> multiplier is needed.
>>>
>>
>> I probably should have named it differently. This is not a multiplier
>> of a clock derived from PLL0 or PLL1. Instead it's a value set by
>> writing to the Port PHY Control Register (MPY bits) of the SATA
>> controller that configures the multiplier for the external low-jitter
>> clock. On the lcdk the signals (REFCLKP, REFCLKN) are provided by
>> CDCM61001 (SATA OSCILLATOR component on the schematics).
>>
>> I'll find a better name and comment the property accordingly.
>>
>> FYI: the da850 platform does not use the common clock framework, so I
>> don't specify the clock property on the sata node in the device tree.
>> Instead I add the clock lookup entry in patch [01/10]. This is
>> transparent for AHCI which can get the clock as usual by calling
>> clk_get() in ahci_platform_get_resources().
>
> I think David's point is that the SATA_REFCLK needs to be modeled as a
> actual clock input to the IP. You should be able to get the rate using
> clk_get_rate() and make the MPY bits calculation depending on the
> incoming rate.
>
> You should be able to model the clock even when not using common clock
> framework.
>
> DA850 AHCI does not use a con_id at the moment (it assumes a single
> clock), and that needs to change.
>

It's true that once davinci gets ported (is this planned?) to using
the common clock framework, we could just create a fixed-clock node in
da850-lcdk for the SATA oscillator, so the new property is redundant.

What I don't get is how should I model a clock that is not
configurable and is board-specific? Is hard-coding the relevant rate
in da850.c with a huge FIXME the right way?

Thanks,
Bartosz Golaszewski