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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:06:36 +0200
From: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>
To: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] MediaTek DVFSRC Bus Bandwidth and Regulator knobs
Il 12/10/24 00:15, Rob Herring ha scritto:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 3:57 AM AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
> <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com> wrote:
>>
>> Changes in v6:
>> - Fixed build with clang (thanks Nathan!)
>> - Removed unused mtk_rmw() macro in mtk-dvfsrc.c
>> - Added MODULE_DESCRIPTION() to mtk-dvfsrc-regulator.c
>>
>> Changes in v5:
>> - Fixed Kconfig dependencies in interconnect
>> - Fixed module build for dvfsrc and interconnect
>>
>> Changes in v4:
>> - Updated patch [3/7] to actually remove address/size cells
>> as the old version got unexpectedly pushed in v3.
>>
>> Changes in v3:
>> - Removed examples from interconnect and regulator bindings
>> and kept example node with interconnect and regulator in
>> the main DVFSRC binding as suggested
>> - Removed 'reg' from interconnect and regulator, removed both
>> address and size cells from the main DVFSRC binding as that
>> was not really needed
>> - Added anyOf-required entries in the regulator binding as it
>> doesn't make sense to probe it without any regulator subnode
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Fixed issues with regulator binding about useless quotes and
>> wrong binding path (oops)
>> - Removed useless 'items' from DVFSRC main binding
>> - Allowed address/size cells to DVFSRC main binding to resolve
>> validation issues on the regulator and interconnect bindings
>> - Changed dvfsrc node name to `system-controller`, as the DVFSRC
>> is actually able to control multiple system components.
>> - Added a commit to remove mtk-dvfs-regulator.c before adding the
>> new, refactored regulator driver
>>
>>
>> This series adds support for the MediaTek Dynamic Voltage and Frequency
>> Scaling Resource Controller (DVFSRC), found on many MediaTek SoCs.
>>
>> This hardware collects requests from both software and the various remote
>> processors embededd into the SoC, and decides about a minimum operating
>> voltage and a minimum DRAM frequency to fulfill those requests, in an
>> effort to provide the best achievable performance per watt.
>>
>> Such hardware IP is capable of transparently performing direct register
>> R/W on all of the DVFSRC-controlled regulators and SoC bandwidth knobs.
>>
>> Summarizing how the DVFSRC works for Interconnect:
>>
>> ICC provider ICC Nodes
>> ---- ----
>> _________ |CPU | |--- |VPU |
>> _____ | |----- ---- | ----
>> | |->| DRAM | ---- | ----
>> |DRAM |->|scheduler|----- |GPU | |--- |DISP|
>> | |->| (EMI) | ---- | ----
>> |_____|->|_________|---. ----- | ----
>> /|\ `-|MMSYS|--|--- |VDEC|
>> | ----- | ----
>> | | ----
>> | change DRAM freq |--- |VENC|
>> -------- | ----
>> SMC --> | DVFSRC | | ----
>> -------- |--- |IMG |
>> | ----
>> | ----
>> |--- |CAM |
>> ----
>>
>> ...and for regulators, it's simply...
>> SMC -> DVFSRC -> Regulator voltage decider -> (vreg) Registers R/W
>>
>> Please note that this series is based on an old (abandoned) series from
>> MediaTek [1], and reuses some parts of the code found in that.
>>
>> Besides, included in this series, there's also a refactoring of the
>> mtk-dvfsrc-regulator driver, which never got compiled at all, and would
>> not build anyway because of missing headers and typos: that commit did
>> not get any Fixes tag because, well, backporting makes no sense at all
>> as the DVFSRC support - which is critical for that driver to work - is
>> introduced with *this series*! :-)
>>
>> P.S.: The DVFSRC regulator is a requirement for the MediaTek UFSHCI
>> controller's crypto boost feature, which is already upstream but
>> lacking the actual regulator to work....... :-)
>>
>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210812085846.2628-1-dawei.chien@mediatek.com/
>>
>> AngeloGioacchino Del Regno (7):
>> dt-bindings: regulator: Add bindings for MediaTek DVFSRC Regulators
>> dt-bindings: interconnect: Add MediaTek EMI Interconnect bindings
>> dt-bindings: soc: mediatek: Add DVFSRC bindings for MT8183 and MT8195
>> soc: mediatek: Add MediaTek DVFS Resource Collector (DVFSRC) driver
>
> Looks like the driver got picked up, but not the binding.
> mediatek,mt8183-dvfsrc and mediatek,mt8195-dvfsrc show up in next as
> undocumented.
>
Thanks for making me notice. Adding it up right now.
Cheers,
Angelo
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