linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/4] dt-bindings: rtc: qcom-pm8xxx: add uefi-variable offset

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Message-ID: <20250423075143.11157-2-johan+linaro@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:51:40 +0200
From: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>
To: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
	Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	Konrad Dybcio <konradybcio@...nel.org>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] dt-bindings: rtc: qcom-pm8xxx: add uefi-variable offset

On many Qualcomm platforms the PMIC RTC control and time registers are
read-only so that the RTC time can not be updated. Instead an offset
needs be stored in some machine-specific non-volatile memory, which a
driver can take into account.

On platforms where the offset is stored in a Qualcomm specific UEFI
variable the variables are also accessed in a non-standard way, which
means that the OS cannot assume that the variable service is available
by the time the RTC driver probes.

Add a 'qcom,uefi-rtc-info' boolean flag to indicate that the RTC offset
is stored in a Qualcomm specific UEFI variable so that the OS can
determine whether to wait for it to become available.

The UEFI variable is

	882f8c2b-9646-435f-8de5-f208ff80c1bd-RTCInfo

and holds a 12-byte structure where the first four bytes is a GPS time
offset in little-endian byte order.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aAecIkgmTTlThKEZ@hovoldconsulting.com/
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/qcom-pm8xxx-rtc.yaml | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/qcom-pm8xxx-rtc.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/qcom-pm8xxx-rtc.yaml
index 68ef3208c886..7497dc3ac5b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/qcom-pm8xxx-rtc.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/qcom-pm8xxx-rtc.yaml
@@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ properties:
     description:
       RTC alarm is not owned by the OS

+  qcom,uefi-rtc-info:
+    type: boolean
+    description:
+      RTC offset is stored as a four-byte GPS time offset in a 12-byte UEFI
+      variable 882f8c2b-9646-435f-8de5-f208ff80c1bd-RTCInfo
+
   wakeup-source: true

 required:
-- 
2.49.0