[RFC PATCH 0/2] clk: rockchip: leave npll for DCLK_VOP0(HDMI) only
Mike Turquette
mturquette at linaro.org
Wed Jan 14 14:16:15 PST 2015
Quoting Heiko Stübner (2015-01-08 14:30:01)
> Hi Kever,
>
> Am Montag, 17. November 2014, 22:55:36 schrieb Kever Yang:
> > To support all kinds of frequency requirement for HDMI on rk3288,
> > we need a PLL that can change rate at run time.
> >
> > There are some discussion before at [0], I think we can just leave
> > the npll for HDMI(DCLK_VOP0) used to make it simple.
> >
> > Comments are welcome.
>
> I think I said it in private somewhere already, but just so it's also
> available publically:
>
> I don't think customizing/limiting the clock usage like this will fly,
> especially as this would require each and every rk3288 board to use vop0 for
> hdmi and vop1 for other stuff.
>
> With the new rk3288 Firefly devboard this concern already becomes reality.
> There a vga converter is connected to VOP0, which leaves only vop1 for hdmi if
> one wants to support the vga connection.
>
>
> From our discussion about this problem I remember that the missing clock
> frequencies only affected more esotheric screen resolutions, so personally I'm
> not this much concerned an would like to wait till we find a better solution to
> the problem.
Ack. We shouldn't have to limit the possible hardware configurations in
software just to keep things simple. This points to a deficiency in the
clock framework. This is a common concern: how to change a clock
frequency for one user without exploding all of the other users.
Do you think Tomeu's constraints API[0] might be a step in the right
direction for you?
[0] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<1421071809-17402-3-git-send-email-tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com>
Regards,
Mike
>
>
> Heiko
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