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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2025 16:25:30 +0200
From: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>, Laura Nao
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/27] dt-bindings: clock: mediatek: Describe MT8196
clock controllers
Il 04/08/25 16:21, Krzysztof Kozlowski ha scritto:
> On 04/08/2025 16:15, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
>> Il 04/08/25 15:58, Krzysztof Kozlowski ha scritto:
>>> On 04/08/2025 15:27, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We discussed about aggregating votes, yes, in software - this instead is a
>>>> *broken* hardware that does the aggregation internally and does not require
>>>> nor want external drivers to do the aggregation.
>>>>
>>>>> Maybe it is just the name, so avoid all the confusing "votes" if this is
>>>>> not voting system. If this is a voting system, then don't use custom
>>>>> phandles.
>>>>
>>>> Being it fundamentally *broken*, this being a voting system is what the hardware
>>>> initially wanted to be - but effectively, since it requires YOU to:
>>>> - Make sure that power supplies are turned on, if not, turn them on by "touching"
>>>> HW registers (so, without any assistance from the voter MCU), if any;
>>>> - Turn on parent clocks manually, if any, before using the "voter mcu" to try
>>>> to ungate that clock; and
>>>> - Enable the "FENC" manually, after the mcu says that the clock was ungated.
>>>
>>>
>>> I understand that "YOU" as Linux driver, when you want to do something
>>> (e.g. toggle) a clock?
>>
>> "you" == Linux driver, yes.
>>
>>> If so this looks a lot like power domain, although with some differences.
>>>
>>
>> A power domain ungates power to something.
>
> Does more, it is not a simple supply.
>
Yes, does more, but still manages power, and not clocks.
>>
>> These are clocks, giving a (x) (M)Hz signal to something.
>
> Your earlier message about "YOU" said:
>
> " - Make sure that power supplies are turned on, if not, turn them on
> by "touching"
> HW registers (so, without any assistance from the voter MCU), if any;"
>
> so not a simple clocks stuff.
That's a characteristic of MediaTek's clock controllers: each hardware macroblock
needs to be powered in order to be able to enable clocks.
This is nothing new in MT8196/MT6991, it's how MediaTek SoCs have always been split
by hardware, and it's like that since ages.
Some other SoCs have the clock controllers always powered on - MediaTek doesn't.
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