On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 10:55, Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 09.08.2021 21:48, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> >>> +/* Will be extracted to bindings header once proper clk driver is implemented */
> >>> +#define OSCCLK 1
> >>> +#define DOUT_UART 2
> >>> +#define CLK_NR_CLKS 3
> >>> +
> >>> +/* Fixed rate clocks generated outside the SoC */
> >>> +static struct samsung_fixed_rate_clock exynos850_fixed_rate_ext_clks[] __initdata = {
> >>> + FRATE(OSCCLK, "fin_pll", NULL, 0, 26000000),
> >>> +};
> >>> +
> >>> +/*
> >>> + * Model the UART clock as a fixed-rate clock for now, to make serial driver
> >>> + * work. This clock is already configured in the bootloader.
> >>> + */
> >>> +static const struct samsung_fixed_rate_clock exynos850_peri_clks[] __initconst = {
> >>> + FRATE(DOUT_UART, "DOUT_UART", NULL, 0, 200000000),
> >>> +};
> >>> +
> >>> +static const struct of_device_id ext_clk_match[] __initconst = {
> >>> + { .compatible = "samsung,exynos850-oscclk" },
> >>
> >> One more thing - I am not sure anymore if this is correct. AFAIR, we
> >> wanted to drop compatibles for external clocks.
> >>
> > I'll remove oscclk from the clock driver and device tree. It's not
> > needed right now anyway, as that driver is just a stub.
> >
> > But I'd still like to know the proper way to define external clocks. I
> > can see that in exynos7.dtsi and exynos5433.dtsi there is just regular
> > fixed clock defined for "oscclk" (or "fin_pll"), and then that clock
> > is referenced in corresponding clock driver by its
> > 'clock-output-names' property. I guess that approach is the
> > recommended one?
>
> Yes, we should use generic "fixed-clock" in DT to model the external
> root clock. Registering the external clock from within the CMU driver
> is a legacy method that predates generic "fixed-clock" and should be
> avoided.
>
Thanks for confirming this. I'll go with generic fixed clock in my
clock patch series then.
> That said I think this temporary stub driver is not needed at all,
> you could well define a fixed clock in DT and reference it in the UART
> node, as Krzysztof suggested.
>
Ok, I'll remove the stub clock driver in v3. Using fixed clock in
device tree for serial seems to work fine.
> --
> Regards,
> Sylwester
