Re: [PATCH v3 07/11] dt-bindings: clock: Add StarFive JH7110 system clock and reset generator

[Conor Dooley]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 12:26:32AM +0800, Hal Feng wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 23:14:39 +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 08:50:50AM +0800, Hal Feng wrote:
> > > From: Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@xxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Add bindings for the system clock and reset generator (SYSCRG) on the
> > > JH7110 RISC-V SoC by StarFive Ltd.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Hal Feng <hal.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> > > +  clocks:
> > > +    items:
> > > +      - description: Main Oscillator (24 MHz)
> > > +      - description: GMAC1 RMII reference
> > > +      - description: GMAC1 RGMII RX
> > > +      - description: External I2S TX bit clock
> > > +      - description: External I2S TX left/right channel clock
> > > +      - description: External I2S RX bit clock
> > > +      - description: External I2S RX left/right channel clock
> > > +      - description: External TDM clock
> > > +      - description: External audio master clock
> > 
> > So, from peeking at the clock driver & the dt - it looks like a bunch of
> > these are not actually required?
> 
> These clocks are used as root clocks or optional parent clocks in clock tree.
> Some of them are optional, but they are required if we want to describe the
> complete clock tree of JH7110 SoC.

Perhaps I have a misunderstand of what required means. To me, required
means "you must provide this clock for the SoC to operate in all
configurations".
Optional therefore would be for things that are needed only for some
configurations and may be omitted if not required.

From your comment below, boards with a JH7110 may choose not to populate
both external clock inputs to a mux. In that case, "dummy" clocks should
not have to be provided in the DT of such boards to satisfy this binding
which seems wrong to me..

It would seem to me that you need to set minItems < maxItems here to
account for that & you do in fact need clock-names.

> 
> > I'd have ploughed through this, but having read Krzysztof's comments on
> > the DTS I'm not sure that this binding is correct.
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20221220011247.35560-1-hal.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#mdf67621a2344dce801aa8015d4963593a2c28bcc
> > 
> > I *think* the DT is correct - the fixed clocks are all inputs from clock
> > sources on the board and as such they are empty in soc.dtsi and are
> > populated in board.dts?
> 
> Yes, the fixed clocks are all clock sources on the board and input to the SoC.
> 
> > 
> > However, are they all actually required? In the driver I see:
> > 	JH71X0__MUX(JH7110_SYSCLK_GMAC1_RX, "gmac1_rx", 2,
> > 		    JH7110_SYSCLK_GMAC1_RGMII_RXIN,
> > 		    JH7110_SYSCLK_GMAC1_RMII_RTX),
> > That macro is:
> > #define JH71X0__MUX(_idx, _name, _nparents, ...) [_idx] = {			\
> > 	.name = _name,								\
> > 	.flags = 0,								\
> > 	.max = ((_nparents) - 1) << JH71X0_CLK_MUX_SHIFT,			\
> > 	.parents = { __VA_ARGS__ },						\
> > }
> > 
> > AFAICT, RMII reference feeds RMII_RTX & RGMII RX *is* RGMII_RXIN?
> > Does that mean you need to populate only one of GMAC1 RMII reference
> > and GMAC1 RMGII RX and the other is optional?
> 
> Yes, actually only one of them is chosen as the root clock
> source of the clock "gmac1_rx".
> 
> > 
> > What have I missed?
> > 
> > > +
> > > +  clock-names:
> > > +    items:
> > > +      - const: osc
> > > +      - const: gmac1_rmii_refin
> > > +      - const: gmac1_rgmii_rxin
> > > +      - const: i2stx_bclk_ext
> > > +      - const: i2stx_lrck_ext
> > > +      - const: i2srx_bclk_ext
> > > +      - const: i2srx_lrck_ext
> > > +      - const: tdm_ext
> > > +      - const: mclk_ext
> > 
> > If all clocks are in fact required though, isn't this kinda pointless to
> > have since we already know that the order is fixed from the "clocks"
> > property?
> > Krzk/Rob?
> 
> The clock-names are used to easily identify these clocks in the clock driver.

*IF* all clocks were in fact required, which they aren't, you could rely
on the order alone in the driver as it is enforced by the binding.

Thanks,
Conor.

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