[PATCH v2 0/6] clk: add a driver for the ath79 PLL controller
From: Rosen Penev
Date: Mon Nov 09 2026 - 20:40:07 EST
The clocks of the Atheros/Qualcomm ath79 MIPS SoCs are set up by
arch/mips/ath79/clock.c, a CLK_OF_DECLARE driver that registers every
clock before the driver core is up. This series replaces it with a new
driver in drivers/clk.
Only the reference and CPU clocks are registered early, with
CLK_OF_DECLARE_DRIVER(), because the MIPS timer needs the CPU rate from
plat_time_init(). A platform driver bound to the same node registers the
DDR, AHB, MDIO, UART1 and PCIe clocks. Until it does, the early provider
returns -EPROBE_DEFER for them. clk-mt7621 uses the same scheme.
Patches 1 and 2 move the two remaining non-clock duties out of the arch
clock code, so that it only uses its own registers and the clk API: the
QCA956x timer interrupt workaround, and the reference clock that is
read from the bootstrap pins when the device tree has no rate. Patches 3
and 4 add the UART1 and PCIe PLL clock IDs. Patch 5 adds the new driver,
and patch 6 removes the old code.
Tested on a TP-Link Archer C7 v2 (QCA9558) with an LLVM build. The CPU,
DDR, AHB and reference rates (960, 800, 266.67 and 40 MHz) match those
of the old code. The serial console, both GMACs, the PCIe PLL with a
QCA9880 behind it, and the WMAC all work, and no devices are left
deferred. The other SoCs are not tested on hardware. For each SoC the
rate calculation was compiled in userspace together with the old code
and fed 2 million random register sets. The results are identical,
except where the old code overflowed 32 bits with register values that
no real setup uses.
Changes in v2:
- Post the new driver as one patch, instead of moving
arch/mips/ath79/clock.c to drivers/clk and cleaning it up over six
patches (review feedback).
- Register only the reference and CPU clocks with CLK_OF_DECLARE, and
the others from a platform driver (review feedback).
- Describe the SoCs with match data, and read the CPU, DDR and AHB
selection of AR934x and later with one function.
- Keep mapping the AR934x SRIF block from its fixed address. It lies
inside the wireless MAC registers, which ath9k claims, so it can't be
a reg entry of the PLL node.
- Drop the clkdev registrations, which have no users.
Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5) was used while preparing this series. It
wrote most of the new driver from the old one, together with the
userspace test of the rate calculation. I reviewed and tested every
change and take responsibility for it.
Rosen Penev (6):
MIPS: ath79: apply the QCA956x timer workaround in setup
MIPS: ath79: move the bootstrap reference clock to setup
dt-bindings: clock: ath79: add the UART1 clock
dt-bindings: clock: ath79: add the PCIe PLL clock
clk: add a driver for the Atheros/Qualcomm ath79 PLL controller
MIPS: ath79: remove the old clock code
MAINTAINERS | 8 +
arch/mips/ath79/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/mips/ath79/clock.c | 673 ----------------------
arch/mips/ath79/setup.c | 100 ++++
drivers/clk/Kconfig | 12 +
drivers/clk/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/clk/clk-ath79.c | 778 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/dt-bindings/clock/ath79-clk.h | 4 +-
8 files changed, 903 insertions(+), 675 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/ath79/clock.c
create mode 100644 drivers/clk/clk-ath79.c
base-commit: 630059a5a632377b9b7b487baccde92b7ae1dd47
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