I just resend this patchset again to let us rethink & find out a quick way enable the power domain support in mainline to help other modules upstream. The GPC module is used for system power management for CPU core & peripheral's power domain. For the whole i.MX8M family, different SOC has different power domain design. Some power domains need special on/off flow(need to access the register out of the GPC module). It makes us hard to reuse the GPCv2 driver to cover all the different power up sequence. Each time a new SOC is added, we must modify the GPCv2 power domain driver to make it resuable for it. We need to add a lot of code for each new chip. We need to access the SRC & SS's GPR in GPCv2 power domain driver, it is burden to maintain the GPCv2 power domain driver. For example, in the future i.MX8MP, there are ~20 power domains, some of the power domain need some special handling only for this specific chip, same situation on i.MX8MM & i.MX8MN. THis patchset add a more generic power domain driver that give us the possibility to use one driver to cover the whole i.MX8M family power domain in kernel side. kernel side driver don't need to handle the power domain difference time to time. All the power domain on/off sequence can be abstracted & handled in TF-A side. it can simplify the power domain handling in kernel side. All the power domain details can be hiden to TF-A side. TF-A image is SOC specific, we don't need to care more about the one image principle. I know some guys suggest to use SCMI to implement the power domains, but it is a long way, need more time to investigate. especially, for the current SCMI power domain, it can not meet all our requirement for power domain management. On i.MX8M, some of the power domain on/off need to handle clock and external regulators, it is not a generic handling for other SOC vendors, I think. Additonally, the SiP Service Calls provide interfaces to SoC implementation specific services on this platform. For example, Secure platform initialization, configuration and some power control. I don't think it can not be used for specific SOC. Jacky Bai (3): dt-bindings: power: Add power domain binding for i.mx8m family soc: imx: Add power domain driver support for i.mx8m family arm64: dts: freescale: Add power domain nodes for i.mx8mm .../bindings/power/fsl,imx8m-genpd.txt | 46 ++++ arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mm.dtsi | 103 ++++++++ drivers/soc/imx/Kconfig | 6 + drivers/soc/imx/Makefile | 1 + drivers/soc/imx/imx8m_pm_domains.c | 224 ++++++++++++++++++ include/soc/imx/imx_sip.h | 12 + 6 files changed, 392 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/fsl,imx8m-genpd.txt create mode 100644 drivers/soc/imx/imx8m_pm_domains.c create mode 100644 include/soc/imx/imx_sip.h -- 2.21.0
