[PATCH 3/4] clk: bcm2835: Add support for programming the audio domain clocks.

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Thu Sep 10 14:35:10 PDT 2015


Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> writes:

> This adds support for enabling, disabling, and setting the rate of the
> audio domain clocks.  It will be necessary for setting the pixel clock
> for HDMI in the VC4 driver and let us write a cpufreq driver.  It will
> also improve compatibility with user changes to the firmware's
> config.txt, since our previous fixed clocks are unaware of it.
>
> The firmware also has support for configuring the clocks through the
> mailbox channel, but the pixel clock setup by the firmware doesn't
> work, and it's Raspberry Pi specific anyway.  The only conflicts we
> should have with the firmware would be if we made firmware calls that
> result in clock management (like opening firmware V3D or ISP access,
> which we don't support in upstream), or on hardware over-thermal or
> under-voltage (when the firmware would rewrite PLLB to take the ARM
> out of overclock).  If that happens, our cached .recalc_rate() results
> would be incorrect, but that's no worse than our current state where
> we used fixed clocks.
>
> The existing fixed clocks in the code are left in place to provide
> backwards compatibility with old device tree files.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
> ---

> +	onecell->clk_num = BCM2835_CLOCK_COUNT;
> +	onecell->clks = kzalloc(sizeof(*onecell->clks), GFP_KERNEL);

Review of another clock driver I wrote pointed out that I missed the
multiply by BCM2835_CLOCK_COUNT here.  I'll send an updated version.
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