Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] arm64: dts: ti: k3-j784s4: Mark tps659413 regulators as bootph-all

From: Andrew Halaney
Date: Thu Sep 12 2024 - 12:03:04 EST


On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 12:19:01PM GMT, Andrew Halaney wrote:
> This series marks tps659413's regulators as bootph-all in order for
> the nodes (and parent nodes) to be accessible during MCU's u-boot SPL.
>
> This in turn is desired since the tps659413 needs its MCU ESM
> state machine setup in order for the watchdog to reset the board.
>
> This took me a little while to track down, as enabling the ESM, TPS6594,
> etc in u-boot would result in the below boot failure:
>
> U-Boot SPL 2024.10-rc4-00007-g44b12cbcd1b3-dirty (Sep 06 2024 - 14:25:52 -0500)
> SYSFW ABI: 3.1 (firmware rev 0x0009 '9.2.4--v09.02.04 (Kool Koala)')
> Initialized 4 DRAM controllers
> SPL initial stack usage: 13408 bytes
> ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
>
> Which turns out to actually have failed far earlier in spl_early_init(),
> due to these nodes not being accessible in u-boot. That's hard to tell
> though since console isn't setup until later (and for that reason I
> think spl_early_init()'s return value in j784s4_init.c isn't
> evaluated since a panic() at that point would leave a user with *no*
> information at all).
>
> I've tested this in conjunction with a u-boot series which I'll link in
> a follow-up response on the k3-j784s4-evm. I'd appreciate someone testing
> on the k3-am69-sk at a minimum, as it should suffer the same fate if things
> aren't setup appropriately.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@xxxxxxxxxx>

Link to the u-boot series: https://lore.kernel.org/all/3bf2177d-178f-46bf-abfe-6f00a52c623b@xxxxxx/#t

Udit, it seems you tested the am69-sk patch from this series in the above
u-boot link, thanks! If that's correct mind adding your Tested-by on
the patch here then as well?

Thanks,
Andrew

> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Only mark the regulator nodes as bootph-all since parents are implied
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240906-j784s4-tps6594-bootph-v1-0-c5b58d43bf04@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> ---
> Andrew Halaney (2):
> arm64: dts: ti: k3-j784s4-evm: Mark tps659413 regulators as bootph-all
> arm64: dts: ti: k3-am69-sk: Mark tps659413 regulators as bootph-all
>
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am69-sk.dts | 8 ++++++++
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j784s4-evm.dts | 8 ++++++++
> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
> ---
> base-commit: 9aaeb87ce1e966169a57f53a02ba05b30880ffb8
> change-id: 20240906-j784s4-tps6594-bootph-19d3f00fb98a
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@xxxxxxxxxx>
>