[PATCH 2/2] ARM: imx: src: support vf610 system reset controller
Stefan Agner
stefan at agner.ch
Sun Nov 30 12:02:20 PST 2014
On 2014-11-30 12:54, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 29 November 2014 01:15:57 Stefan Agner wrote:
>> On 2014-11-28 23:22, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> > On Friday 28 November 2014 23:09:09 Stefan Agner wrote:
>> >> On 2014-11-28 22:24, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> >> > On Friday 28 November 2014 22:02:01 Stefan Agner wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> > If the SRC is also capable of resetting individual blocks instead of just
>> >> >> > the entire machine, it would be a reset driver in drivers/reset instead.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Beside the system reset, there is only a mask functionality for the
>> >> >> watchdogs (there are two watchdogs, one for Cortex-A5 and one for the
>> >> >> M4). This makes the SRC module in the Vybrid a bit different then what
>> >> >> is available on other i.MX SoC's...
>> >> >
>> >> > If you already have the watchdog registers in there and want to have
>> >> > a watchdog driver too, the easiest way would be to register the reboot
>> >> > handler from the watchdog driver.
>> >>
>> >> Hm, not sure we speak about the same here. The SRC module has two
>> >> (multi-)bit fields to mask the watchdog reset event for each watchdog.
>> >> Beside that, there are two full watchdog register maps, which are in
>> >> different areas. There is already a driver for this watchdogs. I'm not
>> >> sure what the idea behind this is exactly, I guess it would easily allow
>> >> to (temporary) mask the other CPU's watchdog. However, I don't think we
>> >> need that functionality, so I don't care about that right now.
>> >
>> > Ok, I see, thanks for the clarification!
>> >
>> >> There is also a restart handler in the watchdog driver, but I prefer to
>> >> use the reset capabilities of the SRC since it has immediate effect.
>> >>
>> >> Lets get to the big picture again: I could register the whole SRC
>> >> register map as a syscon device and then access the registers from my
>> >> suspend/resume implementation later on. And similar in the restart
>> >> driver, I would use syscon_regmap_lookup_by_compatible to check if it
>> >> contains the vf610-src compatible string and register the restart
>> >> driver/handler if available.
>>
>> One thing which came into my mind regarding suspend: I might need to
>> access the registers from assembler (in SRAM), can I do that through
>> syscon/regmap? I had a quick look, but I don't found a way to get back
>> the mapped IO base address.. By good reasons, of course, for most
>> applications. But in my case, afaik I have no other choice.
>
> Yes, I can see that being a problem. What register specifically do
> you need to access from code running in SRAM?
>
There are three registers I need in my current code, VF610_SRC_GPR0,
VF610_SRC_GPR1 and VF610_SRC_MISC2. The last can done from C code, as it
is only DDR RESET behavior during LP mode which need to be configured.
GPR0 is the location to jump at on wakeup, and GPR1 the argument to it.
The argument is the base address in SRAM, but the location, GPR0, is
currently calculated in assembler. I guess I can calculate that in C
code too. Currently I do not have a symbol which I can access, the whole
suspend and resume is done in one "function", similar as it is done for
i.MX6:
arch/arm/mach-imx/suspend-imx6.S
--
Stefan
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