[PATCH 4/9] clk: Add clock driver for mb86s7x

[Jassi Brar]

On 21 November 2014 22:45, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Friday 21 November 2014 22:06:51 Jassi Brar wrote:

>> >> Only MB86S70_CRG11_UNGPRT is marked to mean one special (non-maskable)
>> >> port on the controller, which the clock driver does make use of.
>> >
>> > Is this the actual port number that is known to be non-maskable?
>> >
>> Yes the clock comes out of the controller and is also the parent of
>> other 8 independently maskable clock ports of the domain.
>
> I'm getting confused by the terminology here. Is MB86S70_CRG11_ALW
> a port or a controller?
>
Sorry, bad symbols. ALW..DPHY are controllers. UNGPRT is the ninth
parent clock (port) of a domain that can't be masked.
FYKI, there are 6 instances, of some CRG11 clock controller, under
control of the remote f/w. The Mailbox protocol between remote f/w and
Linux assigned indices [0-5] to these controllers.

>>  The firmware on remote master, lets say, don't wanna be bothered by
>> the clock topology. Even for set-rate the onus is on Linux to request
>> only appropriate rates at appropriate times so that other devices are
>> not messed up.
>
> Is there any code to validate that, or does Linux just treat all
> clocks transparently?
>
The remote does not expose the clock topology and only accepts
requests on port-basis. The remote f/w is supposed to keep track of
which ports are used by Linux and then work out inter-dependencies
upon receiving a request from Linux. So for Linux there are N
independent 'root' clocks, ops on which may or may not succeed at any
given time.

thanks
jassi