[PATCH 8/8] arm64: dts: hikey: Fix WiFi support

[Ulf Hansson]

On 6 June 2017 at 18:24, John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org> wrote:
>> On 6 June 2017 at 12:08, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John, thanks for the report!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After a some investigation, I realized that the mmc pwrseq_simple
>>>>>> driver returns -EPROBE_DEFER as it's not able to get the "ext" clock.
>>>>>> Hence the SDIO card will not be detected.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To fix the problem, you need to enable CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_HI655X in the
>>>>>> kernel config. This is actually also the case when using the arm64
>>>>>> defconfig for a plain 4.12 rc3 and later. We should probably make this
>>>>>> driver enabled per default when building the arm64 defconfig.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you run a re-test at your side with the CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_HI655X
>>>>>> set? Just to make sure it works also with those boot binaries you are
>>>>>> using...
>>>>>
>>>>> So unfortunately, now I'm seeing a side-effect from enabling
>>>>> CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_HI655X.
>>>>>
>>>>> Using the serial-dev driver for the TI bluetooth, it seems I'm seeing
>>>>> failures when CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_HI655X is enabled, but configuring it
>>>>> out, bluetooth works (and wifi then fails).
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking through the dmesg logs, the bluetooth driver seems to
>>>>> initialize up properly and load the firmware, but with CLK_HI655X
>>>>> enabled, we see:
>>>>>
>>>>> Bluetooth: hci0 command 0xff05 tx timeout
>>>>> Bluetooth: hci0: send command failed\x0a
>>>>> Bluetooth: hci0 command 0xff36 tx timeout
>>>>> Bluetooth: hci0 command 0x1003 tx timeout
>>>>> Bluetooth: hci0 command 0x1001 tx timeout
>>>>> Bluetooth: hci0 command 0x1009 tx timeout
>>>>> ...
>>>
>>> As Rob said below, this is because the blue-tooth driver doesn't
>>> properly deal with the power on/off sequence.
>>>
>>> I guess it works for you because your versions of the boot binaries
>>> turns all needed resources on. That isn't the case for me, blue-tooth
>>> is neither working before or after this change, but wifi is.
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This effectively seems to make bluetooth an wifi functionality
>>>>> exclusive.  So I don't think this is a sufficient solution (over
>>>>> reverting the original patch that changes the dts - which allows both
>>>>> to function).
>>>
>>> Since the issues you are reporting about is depending on the
>>> boot-binaries and not a really bugs in the kernel, may I suggest that
>>> we invest our efforts in fixing the blue-tooth driver instead, as it's
>>> there the real problem is!?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> If the clock to the TI chip is described in DT for WiFi, then the BT
>>>> side needs it as well (as does the driver) for proper refcounting. The
>>>> same would apply to regulators as well. I looked at the regulators for
>>>> HiKey and the 2 supplies (Vbat and i/o) appear to both be always on.
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>
>>> Correct.
>>>
>>> I am working on patch, I keep you on cc.
>>
>> Rob, John,
>>
>> I have now looked into this a bit more. So I have some local patches,
>> which in principle adds the external clock to the bluetooth node for
>> the hikey dts, and adapts the uart bluetooth driver
>> (drivers/bluetooth/hci_ll.c) to also take the ext clock into
>> consideration while powering on/off the chip. I am working on a
>> vanilla kernel, thus not John's tree.
>>
>> However, I can't get the uart1 amba device to be added because of this
>> error during boot:
>> "OF: amba_device_add() failed (-19) for /soc/uart at f7111000"
>>
>> The reason why it fails is because amba_device_try_add() fails to read
>> the amba periphid of the uart1 device. I haven't yet been able to
>> figure out why.
>>
>> Is this problem something you have seen before? I tried out v4.11,
>> v4.12-rc3 and John's tree (dev/hikey-mainline-WIP which is based upon
>> 4.12.rc3), they all suffer from the same problem, not being able to
>> add the uart1 device.
>>
>> The consequence then becomes that the bluetooth node (which is a child
>> node for the uart1 node), added in the below commit by Rob, never gets
>> parsed and thus the device don't become added. In other words, I
>> haven't been able to test my changes since I can't even get the
>> bluetooth device to be added.
>>
>> John, are you using the pcm bluetooth interface or the uart?
>
> UART.
>
> I'm not sure why initializing the UART fails for you.  I suspect again
> it might be related to differences in the bootloader, as I'm not sure
> if uboot has had nearly the amount of usage as UEFI.

You are probably right, but that also makes me worried, as we have
likely other similar issues where UEFI just magically solves things
for the kernel.

>
> If you want to send a patch my way, I'm happy to test it, or you can
> grab debian images that use UEFI here:
> https://www.96boards.org/documentation/ConsumerEdition/HiKey/Downloads/Debian.md/

Seems like I need to give UEFI a try again, however this time I would
really appreciate your help in testing as I am running out of
bandwidth for this task.

Just about to post the patches....

>
> thanks
> -john

Kind regards
Uffe