On Samstag, 2. September 2017 00:32:50 CEST André Przywara wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/09/17 02:19, Stefan Bruens wrote: > > On Freitag, 1. September 2017 02:31:35 CEST Andre Przywara wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On 31/08/17 00:36, Stefan Brüns wrote: [...] > > > > For these 3 properties it likely is a good idea, but we would IMHO still > > have to care for the differences in the register settings: > > > > - A31 does not have a clock autogating register > > - A23 and A83t does have one at offset 0x20 > > - A64, H3, H5 and R40 have it at offset 0x28 > > Fair enough - I didn't look too closely at your new changes, especially > why it apparently worked before. > But as your list shows, we would only need one compatible string per > line - in the driver - to cover all SoCs (and possibly future SoCs!), > and do the rest via the properties. > We can't use the existing h3 compatible string or touch the already > existing SoCs and compatible strings, of course, but I guess > the A64, R40 and future SoCs could make use of a new (generic?) string. > > > There are also the incompatibilities in the "DMA channel configuration > > register" (burst length; burst width; burst length field offset). > > > > We can either have 3 different compatible strings, or another property for > > the register model. > > The latter is usually frowned upon, using separate compatible strings > for each group of SoCs is the way to go here. > > > For the aw,max_requests and aw,max_vchans, maybe a bitmask per direction > > is a better option - it can encode the allowed DRQ numbers much better > > (e.g. for H3, the highest source DRQ is 24). The DRQ field in the channel > > configuration register is 5 bits, so the hightest port/DRQ number is 31. > > So looking more closely at the manual and the code my understanding is > that nr_max_requests is more or less some rough molly guard to prevent > wrong settings? Derived from the DRQ table in the manual? > So that trying to program port 28 on an H3 would fail? > But source port 25 or dest port 26 wouldn't be caught by this check, > though they would still be "illegal" according to the manual. (Which we > are not sure of, I guess, it may just not be documented) > So I wonder if this nr_max_requests is useful at all, and we should just > check that it fits into 5 bits and assume that the DT has superior > knowledge of what's allowed and what not. > Now I see what you mean with the bitmask (to cover those gaps), but I am > bit sceptical if that is actually useful. After all the DRQ number would > be coming from the DT, which we can surely trust. > > And nr_max_vchans seems to describe the sum of documented DRQs, to just > limit the memory allocation? So this could become just 64 to cover all > possible cases without SoC specific configuration at all? Yes, thats my understanding as well. Allocating a few excess channels would waste a few kBytes (AFAICS 304 bytes per channel on 64bit). > > For aw,max_channels my first thought is - why max? is it variable? is > > there a min_channels? My suggestion would be (in order of preference): > > "aw,channels", "aw,dma_channels", "aw,available_channels". > > Sure, actually looking at Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/dma.txt > I think we can even use the generic "dma-channels" property described > there. And possibly the same with "dma-requests", should we keep this. > > So summarizing this: > - We create a new compatible string, which drives an H3 compatible DMA > (clock autogating at 0x28, 64-bit data width capable). This name could > either be generic, or actually "allwinner,sun50i-a64-dma". > - This one sets nr_max_requests to 31 and nr_max_vchans to 64. > - Alternatively we expose those values in the DT as properties. > - We take the number of DMA channels from the (now required) > "dma-channels" property. > - We let the A64 (and R40?) use this new binding. > - Any future SoC which is close enough can then just piggy-back on this. > - Any future *changes* in the Allwinner DMA device which require driver > changes create a new compatible string, but still keep the above > semantics. Chances are that there are more than one SoC using this kind > of new DMA device, so they would work out of the box. > > Does that make sense? > I am happy to provide the code for that, based on your H3 rework. Sounds good for me. I will send a cleaned up series later. Kind regards, Stefan -- Stefan Brüns / Bergstraße 21 / 52062 Aachen home: +49 241 53809034 mobile: +49 151 50412019 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
