Re: FW: [PATCH v4 1/4] Broadcom Bluetooth UART Device Tree bindings

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/19/15 17:47, Rob Herring wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Ilya Faenson<ifaenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Rob.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: linux-bluetooth-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:linux-bluetooth-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Herring
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 3:41 PM
>>> To: Ilya Faenson
>>> Cc: marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Arend Van Spriel; devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
>>> linux-bluetooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: Re: FW: [PATCH v4 1/4] Broadcom Bluetooth UART Device Tree
>>> bindings
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Ilya Faenson<ifaenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Rob,
>>>
>>>
>>> Your emails are base64 encoded. They should be plain text for the list.
>>>
>>> IF: The Outlook is configured to respond in the sender's format. I
>>> therefore respond in the encoding you've used.
>>
>>
>> I assure you that that is not the case or I would be banished from
>> lists by now. Outlook is generally incapable of correctly sending
>> mails to lists. The reply header above is one aspect of that. The
>> other problem is your replies don't get wrapped and prefixed properly.
>> That could be my client I guess, but *all* other mails are fine.
>>
>> My sent mails have:
>>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>>
>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Rob Herring [mailto:robherring2@xxxxxxxxx]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 11:03 AM
>>>> To: Ilya Faenson
>>>> Cc: marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Arend Van Spriel; devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
>>>> linux-bluetooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: Re: FW: [PATCH v4 1/4] Broadcom Bluetooth UART Device Tree
>>>> bindings
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Ilya Faenson<ifaenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> + devicetree lists
>>>
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/bluetooth/btbcm.txt
>>>>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/bluetooth/btbcm.txt
>>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>>> index 0000000..5dbcd57
>>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/bluetooth/btbcm.txt
>>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
>>>>> +btbcm
>>>>> +------
>>>>> +
>>>>> +Required properties:
>>>>> +
>>>>> +       - compatible : must be "brcm,brcm-bt-uart".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You need to describe the chip, not the interface.
>>>>
>>>> IF: This driver is for all Broadcom Bluetooth UART based chips.
>>>
>>>
>>> BT only chips? Most/many Broadcom chips are combo chips. I understand
>>> the driver for BT is *mostly* separate from other chip functions like
>>> WiFi, GPS and NFC, but the h/w is a single chip. I say most because
>>> likely there are some parts shared: a voltage rail, reset line, or
>>> power down line. I think some can do BT over the SDIO interface too,
>>> so the interface may be shared. The DT is a description of the h/w
>>> (i.e. what part # for a chip) and not a driver data structure. You
>>> need to describe the whole chip in the binding. It is a Linux problem
>>> if there needs to be multiple separate drivers.
>>>
>>> IF: Defining complete DT description for the Broadcom combo chips for
>>> multiple interfaces is well beyond the scope of what I am doing. I just need
>>> to define a DT node for the input and output GPIOs connected to the BT UART
>>> chip. BT may or may not be part of the combo chip: it does not really matter
>>> for this exercise. I thought I would take this opportunity to place some BT
>>> device parameters into that node as well. If you're not comfortable with
>>> this, I could just call it a "GPIO set" to avoid mentioning BT and UART at
>>> all but it would make little sense. Still, I could consider it. Would you
>>> have "GPIO set" recommendations? Alternatively, NFC Marvell code you're
>>> referring to has parameters configured as Linux module parameters. I could
>>> do the same too, avoiding this device tree discussion. Let me know.
>>>
>>
>> I don't completely follow what you mean by "GPIO set", but I'm
>> guessing that is not the right path.
>>
>>> Generally speaking (pontification hat on :-)), what you're trying to do
>>> (description of the whole chip) is well beyond what say ACPI has done (I was
>>> involved some in the BT ACPI exercise a few years ago). BT UART interface is
>>> described in ACPI independently of other parts of the same combo chip.
>>> Requirements like that slow down the DT development in my opinion as
>>> companies are understandably reluctant to work with unrealistic goals. End
>>> of pontification. :-)
>>>
>>
>> ACPI and DT are very different models in terms of abstraction and
>> governance. I'm not going to hash through all the details.
>>
>> I'm not necessarily saying we have to have a single node, but that is
>> my default position. You have convince me that the functions are
>> completely independent and I cannot judge that if you are completely
>> ignoring the WiFi part. From Broadcom chips I've worked with, the
>> supplies at least are shared (something ACPI does not expose). Perhaps
>> we could fudge that and just require the same supply has to be
>> connected to each half. I still worry there could be other internal
>> inter-dependencies. Perhaps BT requires the SDIO clock to be active or
>> something like that. Maybe not on Broadcom chips, but on other vendors
>> and I have to care about them all.
>
>
> All Broadcom combo chips that I know of have separate supplies, ie.
> wl-reg-on and bt-reg-on. There already is a binding present for the wifi

GPIOs are not supplies. For the module I'm working with (43340 based)
there is a single VDDIO and VBAT supplies which are shared. Now
whether the module or the chip are tying things together, I don't
know. There is also a 32kHz clock input. Is that part of WiFi or BT?

> part. Not extending that may seem ignorant, but as wifi and bt can have a
> separate interface to the host (admittedly they could share SDIO interface,
> but they would be exposed as a separate SDIO function) I did not see a
> reason to object against a separate binding for BT. Whether wifi and bt are
> on the same device does not seem like something that must be expressed in
> DT. The physical state may help in determining DT bindings, but it should
> not be mandatory in my opinion.

We don't need it in DT until we do. Soon as there is some some
interdependence, something in DT will be needed.

Rob
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in



[Index of Archives]     [Bluez Devel]     [Linux Wireless Networking]     [Linux Wireless Personal Area Networking]     [Linux ATH6KL]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Media Drivers]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Big List of Linux Books]

  Powered by Linux