[PATCH 1/3] [ARM] tegra: add PCI Express clocks

Mike Rapoport mike at compulab.co.il
Sun Sep 19 03:54:23 EDT 2010


Gary King wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Colin Cross <ccross at google.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Mike Rapoport <mike at compulab.co.il> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>> I've been told by Nvidia that the pll lock bits are not reliable, and
>>> will be removing uses of tegra2_pll_clk_wait_for_lock and replacing
>>> them with delays selected by each pll.  Can you confirm with Nvidia
>>> that PLLE_MISC_READY works?
> 
>> I'll try to get a confirmation from NVidia....
>> From what I've seen during testing the PLLE_MISC_READY works. When I
>> used loops that counted udelay(1) I've noticed that the
>> PLLE_MISC_READY is set after up to 3usecs.
> 
> All of the PLL lock bits in Tegra 2 are unreliable.
> 
> The safe way to ensure that PLLE is stable is to wait 1ms after changing it.

1 millisecond is a long time... Can you please elaborate about the unreliability 
of PLL lock bits?

>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> +static struct clk_ops tegra_pcie_clk_ops = {
>>>> +       .enable     = tegra2_periph_clk_enable,
>>>> +       .disable    = tegra2_periph_clk_disable,
>>>> +};
>>> Why is this needed?  Won't the regular periph ops work?
>> They didn't. I haven't found anything about what feeds these clocks,
>> can they change rate, what clock can be their parent and if there is
>> any muxing options for these clocks.
> 
> You can follow the example used by the csi and isp clocks, which also
> only support enable and disable. give the PCI clocks a single-choice parent
> mux (like mux_clk_m), flags = 0, reg = 0, and a dummy max_rate.

Ok, I'll try.

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-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.



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