Makes sense. What about phys, resets, etc? I'm pretty sure a PHY
would be a per-Root Port thing, and some resets and wakeup signals
also.
For new drivers, I think we should start adding Root Port stanzas to
specifically associate those things with the Root Port, e.g.,
something like this?
pcie@48400000 {
compatible = "st,stm32mp25-pcie-rc";
pcie@0,0 {
reg = <0x0000 0 0 0 0>;
phys = <&combophy PHY_TYPE_PCIE>;
phy-names = "pcie-phy";
};
};
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/mediatek,mt7621-pcie.yaml?id=v6.12#n111
is one binding that does this, others include apple,pcie.yaml,
brcm,stb-pcie.yaml, hisilicon,kirin-pcie.yaml.
On a second thought, moving the PHY to the root-port part would
introduce a discrepancy with the pcie_ep binding, whereas the PHY is
required on the pcie_ep node.
Even for the pcie_rc, the PHY is needed to enable the core_clk to access
the PCIe core registers,
So that would make 2 different required PHY locations for RC and EP:
pcie_rc: pcie@48400000 {
compatible = "st,stm32mp25-pcie-rc";
pcie@0,0 {
reg = <0x0000 0 0 0 0>;
phys = <&combophy PHY_TYPE_PCIE>;
phy-names = "pcie-phy";
};
};
pcie_ep pcie@48400000 {
compatible = "st,stm32mp25-pcie-ep";
phys = <&combophy PHY_TYPE_PCIE>;
phy-names = "pcie-phy";
};
Simplest seems to keep the PHY required for the pcie core regardless of
the mode and keep the empty root port to split the design
pcie_rc: pcie@48400000 {
compatible = "st,stm32mp25-pcie-rc";
phys = <&combophy PHY_TYPE_PCIE>;
phy-names = "pcie-phy";
pcie@0,0 {
reg = <0x0000 0 0 0 0>;
};
};
pcie_ep: pcie@48400000 {
compatible = "st,stm32mp25-pcie-ep";
phys = <&combophy PHY_TYPE_PCIE>;
phy-names = "pcie-phy";
};
But I have no experience with multiple root-port systems, I'm open for
the best :)
Thanks
Christian