Re: [PATCH 01/19] dt-bindings: clock: tegra124-dfll: Update DFLL binding for PWM regulator

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On 12/10/18 5:44 PM, Jon Hunter wrote:

On 10/12/2018 09:31, Joseph Lo wrote:
On 12/10/18 4:59 PM, Jon Hunter wrote:

On 10/12/2018 08:49, Joseph Lo wrote:
Hi Jon,

Thanks for reviewing this series.

On 12/7/18 9:41 PM, Jon Hunter wrote:

On 04/12/2018 09:25, Joseph Lo wrote:
From: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@xxxxxxxxxx>

Add new properties to configure the DFLL PWM regulator support. Also
add an example and make the I2C clock only required when I2C
support is
used.

Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joseph Lo <josephl@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
    .../bindings/clock/nvidia,tegra124-dfll.txt   | 73
++++++++++++++++++-
    1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git
a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/nvidia,tegra124-dfll.txt
b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/nvidia,tegra124-dfll.txt
index dff236f524a7..8c97600d2bad 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/nvidia,tegra124-dfll.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/nvidia,tegra124-dfll.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ the fast CPU cluster. It consists of a free-running
voltage controlled
    oscillator connected to the CPU voltage rail (VDD_CPU), and a
closed loop
    control module that will automatically adjust the VDD_CPU
voltage by
    communicating with an off-chip PMIC either via an I2C bus or via
PWM signals.
-Currently only the I2C mode is supported by these bindings.
      Required properties:
    - compatible : should be "nvidia,tegra124-dfll"
@@ -45,10 +44,28 @@ Required properties for the control loop
parameters:
    Optional properties for the control loop parameters:
    - nvidia,cg-scale: Boolean value, see the field
DFLL_PARAMS_CG_SCALE in the TRM.
    +Optional properties for mode selection:
+- nvidia,pwm-to-pmic: Use PWM to control regulator rather then I2C.
+
    Required properties for I2C mode:
    - nvidia,i2c-fs-rate: I2C transfer rate, if using full speed mode.
    -Example:
+Required properties for PWM mode:
+- nvidia,pwm-period: period of PWM square wave in microseconds.
+- nvidia,init-uv: Regulator voltage in micro volts when PWM control
is disabled.

Maybe consider 'pwm-inactive-voltage-microvolt'.
Ah, I think I need to refine the description here. It should be
something like below.
   - nvidia,pwm-init-microvolt : Regulator voltage in micro volts when
PWM
control is initialized

This is the initial voltage that when we just initialize the DFLL
hardware for PWM output. And before we switch the CPU clock from PLLX to
DFLL, we will enable DFLL hardware in closed loop mode which will aplly
the DVFS table that was calculated from CVB table.

The original description maybe make you think that it's the working
voltage when it's under open-loop mode. But it's not. Sorry.

When we working on open-loop mode which will switch to low voltage range
which also follows the DVFS table. Not this one.

OK, but I am still not sure what this voltage is. I mean that I
understand it is the initial voltage, but how exactly do we define this
number? Where does it come from, how is this determined?
IIRC, this is the same output voltage that bootloader configured with
proper PLLX rate. So before DFLL handling the CPU clock, that is the
output voltage. We configure the same when DFLL HW is just initialized.

1 volt here is pretty safe when CPU clock switched from bootloader to
kernel at 6.912MHz@pllx.

OK, now I understand. Seems a little fragile, but maybe there is no
better alternative here.

Please describe what this voltage is in the binding doc, so if anyone
happened to modify their bootloader to run at a different speed that it
is stated that this voltage should be high enough to support initial
boot frequency.



+- nvidia,align-offset-uv: Regulator voltage in micro volts when PWM
control is
+              enabled and PWM output is low.

Would this be considered the minimum pwm active voltage?
This would be used for minimum voltage for LUT table, which is the table
that PMIC can output. The real minimum voltage in PWM mode still depends
on the CVB table.

So maybe change this one to 'nvidia,pwm-offset-uv'.

So is this the min supported by the PMIC? Maybe the name should reflect
that because the above name does not reflect this. Furthermore, if this
is a min then maybe the name should use 'min' as opposed to 'offset'.
for example, 'nvidia,pwm-pmic-min-microvolts'.

Does this need to be described in DT, can it not be queried from the
PMIC?

Yes, either way needs to go with DT. The very initial patchset for
DFLL-PWM support, which introduced a redundant pwm-dfll driver. And with
the driver, we can describe the PWM vdd-cpu regulator in DT with the
voltage table that the PMIC can output. But NAKed by reviewer.

Okay, 'nvidia,pwm-pmic-min-microvolts' looks fine. Thanks.

[1]: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/613524/

Thierry, what are your thoughts here? I guess you had asked initially
why we needed a phandle to the PMIC. Seems we need to comprehend the min
voltage supported by the PMIC for creating the LUT.


Jon,

Notice that this is not a real "PWM" driver it just provides an interface that makes us can provide a PWM regulator node with voltage table. Then you can get LUT from that. But the PWM driver itself is a fake pwm driver as the DFLL-PWM is hardware driven not SW.

And as you saw in [1], the DFLL control code should remain in DFLL driver, not in the PWM driver. So basically, I still prefer the way we presented in this series.

Thanks,
Joseph




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