Hey Maixme & Sakari, On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 10:36, Maxime Ripard <maxime@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Sakari, > > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 11:35:07AM +0300, Sakari Ailus wrote: > > > But that 19.2MHz is not a limitation of the device itself, it's a > > > limitation of our implementation, so we can instead implement > > > something equivalent in Linux using a clk_set_rate to 19.2MHz (to make > > > sure that our parent clock is configured at the right rate) and the > > > clk_get_rate and compare that to 19.2MHz (to make sure that it's not > > > been rounded too far apart from the frequency we expect). > > > > > > This is doing exactly the same thing, except that we don't encode our > > > implementation limitations in the DT, but in the driver instead. > > > > What I really wanted to say that a driver that doesn't get the clock > > frequency from DT but still sets that frequency is broken. > > > > This frequency is highly system specific, and in many cases only a certain > > frequency is usable, for a few reasons: On many SoCs, not all common > > frequencies can be used (e.g. 9,6 MHz, 19,2 MHz and 24 MHz; while others > > are being used as well), and then that frequency affects the usable CSI-2 > > bus frequencies directly --- and of those, only safe, known-good ones > > should be used. IOW, getting the external clock frequency wrong typically > > has an effect that that none of the known-good CSI-2 bus clock frequencies > > are available. > > So clock-frequency is not about the "Frequency of the xvclk clock in > Hertz", but the frequency at which that clock must run on this > particular SoC / board to be functional? > > If so, then yeah, we should definitely keep it, but the documentation > of the binding should be made clearer as well. > Alright so, let me summarise the desired approach then. ACPI: - Fetch the "clock-frequency" property - Verify it to be 19.2Mhz DT: - Fetch the "clock-frequency" property - Verify it to be 19.2Mhz - Get xvclk clock - Get xvclk clock rate - Verify xvclk clock rate to be 19.2Mhz Since the xvclk clock isn't available under ACPI, this is how the two cases would be distinguished between. Does this sound about right? > assigned-clock-rates should still go away though. Ack. > > Maxime
