Re: [PATCH 2/3] hwmon: sbrmi: Add Documentation

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On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 06:55:43PM +0530, Naveen Krishna Chatradhi wrote:
> From: Akshay Gupta <Akshay.Gupta@xxxxxxx>
> 
> - Add documentation for sbrmi module
> 
> Signed-off-by: Akshay Gupta <Akshay.Gupta@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/hwmon/index.rst |  1 +
>  Documentation/hwmon/sbrmi.rst | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 80 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/sbrmi.rst
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/index.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/index.rst
> index 9ed60fa84cbe..5cd4798fe193 100644
> --- a/Documentation/hwmon/index.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/index.rst
> @@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ Hardware Monitoring Kernel Drivers
>     q54sj108a2
>     raspberrypi-hwmon
>     sbtsi_temp
> +   sbrmi
>     sch5627
>     sch5636
>     scpi-hwmon
> diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sbrmi.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/sbrmi.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..db50393167bb
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sbrmi.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> +
> +Kernel driver sbrmi
> +===================
> +
> +Supported hardware:
> +
> +  * Sideband Remote Management Interface (SB-RMI) compliant AMD SoC
> +    device connected to the BMC via the APML.
> +
> +    Prefix: 'sbrmi'
> +
> +    Addresses scanned: This driver doesn't support address scanning.
> +
> +    To instantiate this driver on an AMD CPU with SB-RMI
> +    support, the i2c bus number would be the bus connected from the board
> +    management controller (BMC) to the CPU.
> +    The SMBus address is really 7 bits. Some vendors and the SMBus
> +    specification show the address as 8 bits, left justified with the R/W
> +    bit as a write (0) making bit 0. Some vendors use only the 7 bits
> +    to describe the address.
> +    As mentioned in AMD's APML specification, The SB-RMI address is
> +    normally 78h(0111 100W) or 3Ch(011 1100) for socket 0 and 70h(0111 000W)
> +    or 38h(011 1000) for socket 1, but it could vary based on hardware
> +    address select pins.
> +
> +    Datasheet: The SB-RMI interface and protocol along with the Advanced
> +               Platform Management Link (APML) Specification is available
> +               as part of the open source SoC register reference at:
> +
> +               https://www.amd.com/en/support/tech-docs?keyword=55898
> +
> +Author: Akshay Gupta <akshay.gupta@xxxxxxx>
> +
> +Description
> +-----------
> +
> +The APML provides a way to communicate with the SB Remote Management interface
> +(SB-RMI) module from the external SMBus master that can be used to report socket
> +power on AMD platforms using mailbox command and resembles a typical 8-pin remote
> +power sensor's I2C interface to BMC.
> +
> +This driver implements current power with power cap and power cap max.
> +
> +sysfs-Interface
> +---------------
> +Power sensors can be queried and set via the standard ``hwmon`` interface
> +on ``sysfs``, under the directory ``/sys/class/hwmon/hwmonX`` for some value
> +of ``X`` (search for the ``X`` such that ``/sys/class/hwmon/hwmonX/name`` has
> +content ``sbrmi``)
> +
> +================ ===== ========================================================
> +Name             Perm   Description
> +================ ===== ========================================================
> +power#_input     RO    Current Power consumed
> +power#_cap       RW    Power limit can be set between 0 and power#_cap_max
> +power#_cap_max   RO    Maximum powerlimit calculated and reported by the SMU FW

'#' is always '1', so just say so.

> +================ ===== ========================================================
> +
> +The following example show how the 'Power' attribute from the i2c-addresses
> +can be monitored using the userspace utilities like ``sensors`` binary::
> +
> +  # sensors
> +  sbrmi-i2c-1-38
> +  Adapter: bcm2835 I2C adapter
> +  power1:       61.00 W (cap = 225.00 W)
> +
> +  sbrmi-i2c-1-3c
> +  Adapter: bcm2835 I2C adapter
> +  power1:       28.39 W (cap = 224.77 W)
> +  #
> +
> +Also, Below shows how get and set the values from sysfs entries individually::
> +  # cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/power1_cap_max
> +  225000000
> +
> +  # echo 180000000 > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/power1_cap
> +  # cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/power1_cap
> +  180000000



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