Re: [PATCH 5/5] clk: mediatek: Add MediaTek Helio X10 MT6795 clock drivers

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Il 16/05/22 13:30, Matthias Brugger ha scritto:


On 13/05/2022 18:50, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
Add the clock drivers for the entire clock tree of MediaTek Helio X10
MT6795, including system clocks (apmixedsys, infracfg, pericfg, topckgen)
and multimedia clocks (mmsys, mfg, vdecsys, vencsys).

Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks a lot for taking care of this!
I just wonder if we couldn't build most of the clock drivers as modules like done for the mt6779. It would help us to keep the kernel image smaller.


Hello Matthias!

You're welcome!
...but I simply couldn't stand at seeing partially working (..or actually, not
really working) SoCs upstream. If something is upstream, it must work, or it
shouldn't be here for real :-)

Regarding your question about the clock drivers as module... I believe we can,
but that'd be only for {vdec,venc}sys and *maybe* MFG (gpu clocks): I don't know
if it'd be worth to do, as these are about... 8 clocks out of... I haven't counted
them, but more than 250, I think?

It *should* be straightforward though, just about giving them a tristate in Kconfig
instead of a bool, but that would still be limited to just those three...

The reason for me excluding clk-mt6795-mm from this choice is that - at least for
me - my development platform is a commercial smartphone, where the only thing that
"saves you" is having some display output... I mean - I *do* have a UART port, but
that's only because I've been able to solder thin wires on 0.2mm pads... you surely
agree on the fact that this isn't a common practice, even across developers.

Besides, if you think that clk-mt6795-mm should indeed be a module by default,
well, that.. is.. possible - I don't see why it shouldn't be... obviously keeping
in mind that this will largely slow down the boot process, which isn't a big issue.

In any case, it is *not* possible to compile as module *any* of the clock drivers
that I have included in the CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_MT6795 (apmixed, infra, peri, topck)
as.. you know.. these are "a bit critical" on older platforms :-)


How would you proceed?

Cheers,
Angelo



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