Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] phy: qcom: qmp-pcie: Add PHY register retention support

[Manivannan Sadhasivam]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 12:46:44PM +0100, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> On 24.02.2025 9:46 AM, Wenbin Yao (Consultant) wrote:
> > On 2/24/2025 3:33 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 06:22:53PM +0800, Wenbin Yao wrote:
> >>> From: Qiang Yu <quic_qianyu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> Some QCOM PCIe PHYs support no_csr reset. Unlike BCR reset which resets the
> >>> whole PHY (hardware and register), no_csr reset only resets PHY hardware
> >>> but retains register values, which means PHY setting can be skipped during
> >>> PHY init if PCIe link is enabled in booltloader and only no_csr is toggled
> >>> after that.
> >>>
> >>> Hence, determine whether the PHY has been enabled in bootloader by
> >>> verifying QPHY_START_CTRL register. If it's programmed and no_csr reset is
> >>> available, skip BCR reset and PHY register setting to establish the PCIe
> >>> link with bootloader - programmed PHY settings.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Qiang Yu <quic_qianyu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Wenbin Yao <quic_wenbyao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Some nitpicks below.
> >>
> >>> ---
> 
> [...]
> 
> >>
> >>> +     * In this way, no matter whether the PHY settings were initially
> >>> +     * programmed by bootloader or PHY driver itself, we can reuse them
> >> It is really possible to have bootloader not programming the init sequence for
> >> no_csr reset platforms? The comment sounds like it is possible. But I heard the
> >> opposite.
> > 
> > PCIe3 on X1E80100 QCP is disabled by default in UEFI. We need to enable it
> > manually in UEFI shell if we want.
> 
> IIUC this will not be a concern going forward, and this is a special case
> 

I'm wondering how many *special* cases we may have to deal with going forward.
Anyhow, I would propose to atleast throw an error and fail probe() if:

* the platform has no_csr reset AND
* bootloader has not initialized the PHY AND
* there are no init sequences in the kernel

- Mani

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