[PATCH RFC 1/4] phy: Add new Exynos5 USB 3.0 PHY driver

Tomasz Figa t.figa at samsung.com
Mon Nov 4 07:26:44 EST 2013


Hi Kishon,

On Monday 04 of November 2013 12:24:42 Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> Hi Vivek,
> 
> On Thursday 31 October 2013 01:15 PM, Vivek Gautam wrote:
> > Add a new driver for the USB 3.0 PHY on Exynos5 series of SoCs.
> > The new driver uses the generic PHY framework and will interact
> > with DWC3 controller present on Exynos5 series of SoCs.
> 
> In Exynos, you have a single IP that supports both USB3 and USB2 PHY 
> right? I think that needs to be mentioned here.

Nope. There are two separate, different IPs.

> Do you have separate registers that should be used for 
> initializing/powerin_on/powering_off etc.. for usb2 phy and usb3 phy? If 
> so, then you should model this driver as a single driver that supports 
> two PHYs similar to what Sylwester has done before?

Sylwester's MIPI PHY uses such model because it has a single register
that controls both PHYs.

Best regards,
Tomasz




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