Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: dts: rockchip: Explicitly request UFS reset pin on RK3576

From: Quentin Schulz

Date: Tue Jan 20 2026 - 08:00:21 EST


Hi Alexey,

On 1/20/26 1:53 PM, Alexey Charkov wrote:
Rockchip RK3576 UFS controller uses a dedicated pin to reset the connected
UFS device, which can operate either in a hardware controlled mode or as a
GPIO pin.

Power-on default is GPIO mode, but the boot ROM reconfigures it to a
hardware controlled mode if it uses UFS to load the next boot stage.

Given that existing bindings (and rk3576.dtsi) expect a GPIO-controlled
device reset, request the required pin config explicitly.

This doesn't appear to affect Linux, but it does affect U-boot:

Before:
=> md.l 0x2604b398
2604b398: 00000011 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................
< ... snip ... >
=> ufs init
ufshcd-rockchip ufshc@2a2d0000: [RX, TX]: gear=[3, 3], lane[2, 2], pwr[FASTAUTO_MODE, FASTAUTO_MODE], rate = 2
=> md.l 0x2604b398
2604b398: 00000011 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................

After:
=> md.l 0x2604b398
2604b398: 00000011 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................
< ... snip ...>
=> ufs init
ufshcd-rockchip ufshc@2a2d0000: [RX, TX]: gear=[3, 3], lane[2, 2], pwr[FASTAUTO_MODE, FASTAUTO_MODE], rate = 2
=> md.l 0x2604b398
2604b398: 00000010 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................

(0x2604b398 is the respective pin mux register, with its BIT0 driving the
mode of UFS_RST: unset = GPIO, set = hardware controlled UFS_RST)

This helps ensure that GPIO-driven device reset actually fires when the
system requests it, not when whatever black box magic inside the UFSHC
decides to reset the flash chip.


Would have liked a mention on why pull-down in the commit log.

In any case,

Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
Quentin