Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: rockchip: correct regular setting for act8846

[Eddie Cai]

2017-05-24 20:27 GMT+08:00 Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>:
> On 24/05/17 12:34, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
>> Am Mittwoch, 24. Mai 2017, 11:26:10 CEST schrieb Robin Murphy:
>>> On 24/05/17 09:17, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
>>>> Hi Eddie,
>>>>
>>>> Am Mittwoch, 24. Mai 2017, 15:33:41 CEST schrieb Eddie Cai:
>>>>> the previous setting of act8846 is just copy from firefly board. but
>>>>> the reload board is a little different from firefly board. let's correct
>>>>> it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Eddie Cai <eddie.cai.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-firefly-reload-core.dtsi | 21 +++++++++++----------
>>>>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-firefly-reload-core.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-firefly-reload-core.dtsi
>>>>> index 8134966..4cfa109 100644
>>>>> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-firefly-reload-core.dtsi
>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-firefly-reload-core.dtsi
>>>>> @@ -179,6 +179,7 @@
>>>>>                            regulator-name = "vccio_sd";
>>>>>                            regulator-min-microvolt = <3300000>;
>>>>>                            regulator-max-microvolt = <3300000>;
>>>>> +                          regulator-always-on;
>>>>
>>>> the rest below looks pretty straight forward, but why does vccio_sd
>>>> need to be always on?
>>>>
>>>> I've checked the reload's schematics but did not find any further users
>>>> of vccio_sd that may warant this attribute.
>>>
>>> It looks like the card detect line is pulled up externally to vcc_sd,
>>> which isn't always-on either, so you probably do want this - on the
>>> (unrelated) rk3288 TV box I've been hacking on, I discovered that
>>> powering off the sdmmc-supply domain also kills the internal pull-up and
>>> leaves sdmmc_cd floating. The resulting stochastic card polling
>>> mechanism is amusing, but probably undesirable ;)
>>
>> Hmm, are you mixing up vcc_sd and vccio_sd?
>>
>> vccio_sd is the io supply (vqmmc in mmc-terms) to the mmc-host itself
>> while vcc_sd is the actual card supply (vmmc in mmc-terms).
>
> Yes, that is what I meant, although I was implicitly assuming the case
> where the MMC host driver has already turned off vcc_sd due to no card
> being present. I'll double-check, but I'm 99% certain that *unlike*
> Firefly, the Hotack board I've got (seemingly a straight implementation
> of the "Box" reference design based on what I've managed to
> reverse-engineer from scouring the internet) has no external pull-ups
> for anything on its microSD socket, so is entirely reliant on everything
> being pulled up internally to SDMMC0_VDD, i.e. vccio_sd.
>
>> After looking through some schematics, the pull-up to vcc_sd seems to be
>> the common pattern for rk3288 devices. So I guess this means the fixed
>> regulator vcc_sd should get an regulator-always-on instead to stabilize
>> the card-detect?
>
> That might make sense, especially where vcc_sd is just vcc_io behind a
> MOSFET switch, so turning it "off" when there's no card to draw power
> anyway probably doesn't achieve much. Plus if you can then rely on
> vcc_sd not going away it might be worth disabling the internal pull-ups
> which are still being set by all the sdmmc_* pinctrl configs as well.
the host might want to reset the card power when the card controller hang up.
it won't work if we add regulator-always-on to vcc_sd.  So i would
still prefer to
add regulator-always-on to vccio_sd instead of vcc_sd
>
> Robin.
>
>>>>>                    };
>>>>>
>>>>>                    vdd10_lcd: REG6 {
>>>>> @@ -187,24 +188,23 @@
>>>>>                            regulator-max-microvolt = <1000000>;
>>>>>                    };
>>>>>
>>>>> -                  vcca_18: REG7  {
>>>>> -                          regulator-name = "vcca_18";
>>>>> -                          regulator-min-microvolt = <1800000>;
>>>>> -                          regulator-max-microvolt = <1800000>;
>>>>> -                          regulator-always-on;
>>>>> +                  vcca_33: REG7  {
>>>>> +                          regulator-name = "vcca_33";
>>>>> +                          regulator-min-microvolt = <3300000>;
>>>>> +                          regulator-max-microvolt = <3300000>;
>>>>>                    };
>>>>>
>>>>> -                  vcca_33: REG8 {
>>>>> -                          regulator-name = "vcca_33";
>>>>> +                  vcc_lan: REG8 {
>>>>> +                          regulator-name = "vcc_lan";
>>>>>                            regulator-min-microvolt = <3300000>;
>>>>>                            regulator-max-microvolt = <3300000>;
>>>>> -                          regulator-always-on;
>>>>>                    };
>>>>>
>>>>> -                  vcc_lan: REG9 {
>>>>> -                          regulator-name = "vcca_lan";
>>>>> +                  vccio_pmu: REG9 {
>>>>> +                          regulator-name = "vccio_pmu";
>>>>>                            regulator-min-microvolt = <3300000>;
>>>>>                            regulator-max-microvolt = <3300000>;
>>>>> +                          regulator-always-on;
>>>>>                    };
>>>>>
>>>>>                    vdd_10: REG10 {
>>>>> @@ -218,6 +218,7 @@
>>>>>                            regulator-name = "vcc_18";
>>>>>                            regulator-min-microvolt = <1800000>;
>>>>>                            regulator-max-microvolt = <1800000>;
>>>>> +                          regulator-always-on;
>>>>>                    };
>>>>>
>>>>>                    vcc18_lcd: REG12 {
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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