Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] usb: xhci: Load Raspberry Pi 4 VL805's firmware

[Peter Robinson]

>
> On 30/04/2020 15:04, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> > When needed, RPi4's co-processor (called VideoCore) has to be instructed
> > to load VL805's firmware (the chip providing xHCI support). VideoCore's
> > firmware expects the board's PCIe bus to be already configured in order
> > for it to load the xHCI chip firmware. So we have to make sure this
> > happens in between the PCIe configuration and xHCI startup.
> >
> > Introduce a callback in xhci_pci_probe() to run this platform specific
> > routine.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Changes since v1:
> >  - Create callback
> >
> >  board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> >  drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c |  6 ++++++
> >  include/usb/xhci.h          |  3 +++
> >  3 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.c b/board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.c
> > index e367ba3092..8aa78d1f48 100644
> > --- a/board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.c
> > +++ b/board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.c
> > @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
> >  #include <lcd.h>
> >  #include <memalign.h>
> >  #include <mmc.h>
> > +#include <usb/xhci.h>
> >  #include <asm/gpio.h>
> >  #include <asm/arch/mbox.h>
> >  #include <asm/arch/msg.h>
> > @@ -494,3 +495,14 @@ int ft_board_setup(void *blob, bd_t *bd)
> >
> >       return 0;
> >  }
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_BCM2711
>
> This won't work with rpi_arm64_defconfig.
> Can't we just evaluate at runtime if we need to do anything in xhci_pci_fixup.
>
> I wonder if the newer RPi4 have also a newer revision ID (see get_board_rev). If
> so we could add another bool to struct rpi_model which will indicate us if we
> need to notify VideoCore about vl805's firmware.

I believe they're ones ending in 03112:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/tree/master/hardware/raspberrypi/revision-codes