Re: [PATCH v5 02/44] clk: davinci: New driver for davinci PLL clocks

From: Sekhar Nori
Date: Fri Jan 12 2018 - 11:20:17 EST


On Friday 12 January 2018 08:55 PM, David Lechner wrote:
>>
>> PLL output on DA850 must never be below 300MHz or above 600MHz (see
>> datasheet table "Allowed PLL Operating Conditions"). Does this take care
>> of that? Thats one of the main reasons I recall I went with some
>> specific values of prediv, pllm and post div in
>> arch/arm/mach-davinci/da850.c
>
> Apparently, I missed this requirement. It looks like I am going to have to
> rework things so that there is some coordination between the PLL and the
> PLLDIV clocks in order to get the < 300MHz operating points.

Just to make sure we are on the same page. The datasheet
constraint is 600 >= PLLOUT >= 300. PLLOUT is output of POSTDIV.

The operating points are defined in terms of ARM frequency (and
voltage). The OPPs defined in kernel today are here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nsekhar/linux-davinci.git/tree/arch/arm/mach-davinci/da850.c#n1092

Thanks,
Sekhar