Re: [PATCH] drm/omap: Migrate minimum FCK/PCK ratio from Kconfig to dts

[Adam Ford]

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 10:53 AM Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 28/05/2019 18:09, Adam Ford wrote:
> > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 4:11 AM Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 10/05/2019 22:42, Adam Ford wrote:
> >>> Currently the source code is compiled using hard-coded values
> >>> from CONFIG_OMAP2_DSS_MIN_FCK_PER_PCK.  This patch allows this
> >>> clock divider value to be moved to the device tree and be changed
> >>> without having to recompile the kernel.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Adam Ford <aford173@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> I understand why you want to do this, but I'm not sure it's a good idea.
> >> It's really something the driver should figure out, and if we add it to
> >> the DT, it effectively becomes an ABI.
> >>
> >> That said... I'm not sure how good of a job the driver could ever do, as
> >> it can't know the future scaling needs of the userspace at the time it
> >> is configuring the clock. And so, I'm not nacking this patch, but I
> >> don't feel very good about this patch...
> >>
> >> The setting also affects all outputs (exluding venc), which may not be
> >> what the user wants. Then again, I think this setting is really only
> >> needed on OMAP2 & 3, which have only a single output. But that's the
> >> same with the current kconfig option, of course.
> >>
> >> So, the current CONFIG_OMAP2_DSS_MIN_FCK_PER_PCK is an ugly hack, in my
> >> opinion, and moving it to DT makes it a worse hack =). But I don't have
> >> any good suggestions either.
> >
> > As it stands the Logic PD OMAP35 and AM37/DM37 boards (SOM-LV and
> > Torpedo) require this to be hard coded to 4 or it hangs during start.
> > This is the case for all versions 4.2+.  I haven't tested it with
> > older stuff.  Tony has a DM3730 Torpedo kit and reported the hanging
> > issue to me. I told him to set that value to 4 to make it not hang.
> > He asked that I move it to the DT to avoid custom kernels.  I agree
> > it's a hack, but if it's create a customized defconfig file for 4
> > boards or modify the device tree, it seems like the device tree
> > approach is less intrusive.
>
> Ok, well, I think that's a separate thing from its intended use. The
> point of the kconfig option is to ensure that the fclk/pclk ratio stays
> under a certain number to allow enough scaling range. It should never
> affect a basic non-scaling use case, unless you set it to a too high
> value, which prevents finding any pclk.
>
> Has anyone debugged why the hang is happening?

I tried debugging this years ago, and I was told to use the
CONFIG_OMAP2_DSS_MIN_FCK_PER_PCK.
>
> If we can't fix the bug itself, rather than adding a DT option, we could
> change add a min_fck_per_pck field (as you do), keep the kconfig option,
> and set the min_fck_per_pck based on the kconfig option, _or_ in case of
> those affected SoCs, set the min_fck_per_pck even without the kconfig
> option.

I am just curious if anyone else sees this.  If nobody is using this
hack, I wonder how much of the impact it will be.  I'm trying trying
to get my board to boot without hanging without creating a custom
defconfig.

adam
>
>   Tomi
>
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