linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] earlycon: Allow specifying a uartclk in options

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Date:   Thu, 1 Mar 2018 14:24:08 -0700
From:   Aaron Durbin <adurbin@...omium.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] earlycon: Allow specifying a uartclk in options

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 1:02 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:22 PM, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 11:47 AM Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
>> wrote:
>
>> "earlycon simply does not utilize the information".
>>
>> earlycon parses iotype, mapbase and baud (from options).  However, it is
>> hard-coded to assume that the clock used to generate the UART bitclock is
>> always "BASE_BAUD * 16" (1843200).  While this may be true for many UARTs,
>> it isn't true for AMD's CZ/ST which has a 8250_dw and uses a fixed 48 MHz
>> clock.  The main 8250_dw driver uses devm_clk_get to get the "baudclk" and
>> uses its rate to initialize uartclk.  For AMD CZ/ST, this "baudclk" is
>> actually a set up in acpi_apd.c when there is an acpi match for "AMD0020",
>> with a rate read from the .fixed_clk_rate param of the corresponding
>> apd_device_desc.
>>
>> This patch attempts to add a way to inform earlycon about this clock.  As
>> noted above, the information is actually already in the kernel and used by
>> 8250_dw - I would happy be to hear recommendations for wiring this data
>> into earlycon that doesn't require adding another command line arg.
>
> And it should not require that for sure!

But it does require that. There's an input clock to the uart ip block.
That is a design constraint by the hardware and is required to make
baud calculation work.

>
> I would look to this later. It's late here. I need to do a bit of
> research for the answer.
>
>> I see that support was also added recently to earlycon to let it use ACPI
>> SPCR to choose a console and configure its parameters... but AFAICT, this
>> path also doesn't allow specifying the uart clock.
>
> Fix your firmware then. It should set console to 115200 like (almost)
> everyone does.

It's not a firmware problem. Its the driver's problem in that it
assumes an input clock to the uart block that does not reflect
reality.

> Okay, configures a necessary IPs to feed UART with expected 1.8432M clock.

That's only possible if there is a clock divider on the front end of
the uart block. For this hardware that's not the case. I actually did
this very thing on intel chromebook devices, but it was only possible
because there was a hardware divider that could be tuned to reach the
assumed clock that the code currently assumes.

>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko