Re: msm8909 support in a recent kernel

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On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Bjorn Andersson
<bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed 06 Dec 06:39 PST 2017, Will Newton wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:45 AM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On 12/01, Will Newton wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:50 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > It's not completely insane to support this SoC upstream though. You'd
>> >> > have to bring in the pinctrl and clk drivers, which may be a bit of
>> >> > effort. After that it should mostly be enabling various devices by
>> >> > adding DT nodes and testing things out. It looks like this is 32-bit, so
>> >> > getting SMP support may require some tweaks to the smp_ops code for qcom
>> >> > platforms. You're right that it isn't too different from msm8916, so it
>> >> > may be that most of the driver support for that SoC transfers over
>> >> > nicely to this one.
>> >>
>> >> I've started from the 8916 drivers and started to port in the changes
>> >> from the 3.18 tree that seem relevant. I have a kernel that boots and
>> >> talks over the serial. I've done a bunch of pinctrl although it is not
>> >> complete yet. I've had a look at the clocks and got the PLL working
>> >> but I think I'm probably missing a document that describes the
>> >> clocking architecture in more detail (I have the register reference
>> >> but that's a bit of a worm's eye view).
>> >>
>> >> The current issue I am experiencing is the first write to an SPMI
>> >> channel causes the board to reset. I suspect this means that I have
>> >> not setup clocks correctly somewhere?
>> >
>> > The SPMI controller typically always has clks enabled, so I would
>> > be surprised if the clk was off. More likely, you're attempting
>> > to read/write a channel that is locked down and triggering an
>> > access control violation. Something configured incorrectly in DT
>> > perhaps?
>>
>> The DT is certainly the most likely place to find the problem, the
>> SPMI driver etc. are mostly the same as 3.18.
>>
>> The problem I am seeing is when the registers are initialized for the
>> s2 regulator (via SPMI), which I think is powering the CPU core (I
>> don't have the pm8909 docs sadly, only pm8916) and even though no bits
>> in the register get changed as part of the init, the writeback of the
>> register causes the board to reset.
>>
>> In general I am having a bit if trouble understanding the regulator
>> setup. It seems like there are the RPM regulators - these don't seem
>> to be detected correctly. I get a remote_state of FLUSHING in
>> qcom_channel_state_worker which stops the devices being setup.
>>
>
> Many regulators in the system feeds multiple subsystems, e.g. apps,
> modem, wireless. To support this there is a separate co-processor - the
> RPM - that take requests from all subsystems and then control the PMIC.
> For these regulators the PMIC registers are locked down and accessing
> these would typically cause a system reset.
>
> To communicate with the RPM you would need to enable tcsr-mutex, smem,
> apcs and smd/rpm/rpm_request like done for 8916. It's probable that the
> only code you need to write is in qcom_smd-regulator.c to add the list
> of regulators and their parameters.

Thanks, that's really helpful, I'll make sure I have all those functioning.

It does look like for the 8916 the same list of regulators (s1-s4,
l1-l18) is listed in both the spmi_bus section and the rpm_bus section
of the dts. What is it that decides whether a regulator is part of the
RPM set or the SPMI set - is it a property of the SoC that can be read
somewhere?
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