[PATCH] ARM: mxs: Change duart device to use amba-pl011
Shawn Guo
shawn.guo at freescale.com
Tue Jan 4 00:41:54 EST 2011
Hi Russell,
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 10:39:13AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 07:49:40PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > I did not see this problem. It's true that the clock is turned off
> > in amba_device_register. But later, the clock will be turned on
> > again by amba_probe -> amba_get_enable_pclk very soon.
> >
> > But we should add something like below in mx28_clocks_init to reflect
> > the clock status and get usecount updated.
> >
> > clk_enable(&uart_clk)
> >
> > I ran into similar problem with fec driver, and would cover that in
> > fec patch set.
>
> This sounds like entirely the wrong approach. Please take some time to
> understand that there are different clocks which do different things.
>
> The PCLK is the name ARM Ltd give to the APB bus clock. This we name
> apb_pclk, and we expect platforms to provide it where possible. This
> name will be looked up for every primecell device on the system.
>
> If you don't provide an apb_pclk, it will find the device specific
> function clock. This in itself is no bad thing, unless you use the
> device outside of the AMBA driver (iow, before probe or after remove)
> and helps identify when you've forgotten to provide an apb_pclk.
>
I intended to let the amba bus driver get duart clock. But you are
right, I should provide an apb_pclk since it actually exists on mxs
processors. In case of duart, it is xbus (apbx) clock.
_REGISTER_CLOCK("duart", "apb_pclk", xbus_clk)
Thanks for the comment.
--
Regards,
Shawn
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