Re: [PATCH 00/13] usb: dwc3: meson: add OTG support for GXL/GXM

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Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> The USB support was initialy done with a set of PHYs and dwc3-of-simple
>> because the architecture of the USB complex was not understood correctly
>> at the time (and proper documentation was missing...).
>>
>> But with the G12A family, the USB complex was correctly understood and
>> implemented correctly.
>> But seems the G12A architecture was derived for the GXL USB architecture,
>> with minor differences and looks we can share most of the USB DWC3 glue
>> driver.
>>
>> This patchset refactors and adds callbacks to handle the architecture
>> difference while keeping the main code shared.
>>
>> The main difference is that on GXL/GXM the USB2 PHY control registers
>> are mixed with the PHY registers (we already handle correctly), and
>> the GLUE registers are allmost (99%) the same as G12A.
>>
>> But, the GXL/GXM HW is buggy, here are the quirks :
>> - for the DWC2 controller to reset correctly, the GLUE mux must be switched
>>   to peripheral when the DWC2 controlle probes. For now it's handled by simply
>>   switching to device when probing the subnodes, but it may be not enough
>> - when manually switching from Host to Device when the USB port is not
>>   populated (should not happen with proper Micro-USB/USB-C OTG switch), it
>>   makes the DWC3 to crash. The only way to avoid that is to use the Host
>>   Disconnect bit to disconnect the DWC3 controller from the port, but we can't
>>   recover the Host functionnality unless resetting the DWC3 controller.
>>   This bit is set when only manual switch is done, and a warning is printed
>>   on manual switching.
>>
>> The patches 1-8 should be applied first, then either waiting the next release
>> or if the usb maintainer can provide us a stable tag, we can use it to merge
>> the DT and bindings.
>
> it's unclear to me if this series is ready to be merged. Can someone
> confirm? If it is, can you resend with all reviewed by tags in place?

Are we getting a v2 for this?

-- 
balbi

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