[PATCH 4/5] ARM: dts: imx6sx-sabreauto: add fec support

[Anson Huang]

Anson Huang
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> Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/5] ARM: dts: imx6sx-sabreauto: add fec support
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> 
> Anson Huang
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> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fabio Estevam [mailto:festevam at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 1:29 AM
> > To: Anson Huang <anson.huang at nxp.com>
> > Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>; Sascha Hauer
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> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] ARM: dts: imx6sx-sabreauto: add fec support
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 3:57 AM, Anson Huang <anson.huang at nxp.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The 'phy-supply' is for enabling/disabling phy regulator, but here
> > > the
> > > MAX7322 IO0 is NOT for enabling/disabling PHY regulator, it is for
> > > IO voltage switch between 1.5V and 1.8V, our ENET IO can work with
> > > both 1.5V
> > and 1.8V, so any config is OK for ENET function.
> >
> > Thanks for the clarification.
> >
> > > The 1.5V/1.8V selection is a one time setting thing, that means we
> > > only need to config it once during boot up, most of i.MX platforms
> > > does NOT provide such voltage switch function for ENET IO, on this
> > > 6SX sabre auto board, it is more like a backup or validation
> > > purpose. With default
> > settings, ENET's function is NOT impacted at all.
> > >
> > > I think we can add a gpio regulator for it and let the regulator
> > > initialization set the GPIO Level for fec, such below, with "
> > > enable-active-high " present, GPIO will be at LOW and voltage is
> > > 1.5V, without
> > this property, GPIO will be HIGH and voltage will be 1.8V.
> > > +               reg_fec: fec_io_supply {
> > > +                       compatible = "regulator-gpio";
> > > +                       regulator-name = "1.8V_1.5V_FEC";
> > > +                       regulator-min-microvolt = <1500000>;
> > > +                       regulator-max-microvolt = <1800000>;
> > > +                       states = <1500000 0x0 1800000 0x1>;
> > > +                       enable-gpio = <&max7322 0
> > GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
> > > +                       vin-supply = <&sw2_reg>;
> > > +                       enable-active-high;
> >
> > If there is no consumer for this regulator, the regulator API will disable it.
> >
> > It seems you need a 'regulator-always-on;'.
> 
> GPIO regulator is slight different when regulator framework try to disable those
> unused regulator in late phase, in _regulator_do_disable, the GPIO regulator
> only got disabled when it is explicitly enabled before (ena_gpio_state is set when
> regulator is enabled), but this reg_fec is NOT getting enabled, since it only has
> voltage switch function. But I agree that we can anyway add
> 'regulator-always-on'
> to avoid any confusion, will send out new patch, thanks!
> 
>          if (rdev->ena_pin) {
>                  if (rdev->ena_gpio_state) {
>                          ret = regulator_ena_gpio_ctrl(rdev, false);
> 
> 
> Anson.

I found if I add ' regulator-always-on ', the regulator core will explicitly enable this GPIO
regulator and cause MAX7322 IO0 to be HIGH and the FEC IO will be 1.8V, since the GPIO regulator
state 1 means 1.8V, but what we want for now is 1.5V, so I think we should NOT add ' regulator-always-on ',
if anyone wants to use 1.8V IO voltage, they can enable this GPIO regulator to get 1.8V. So I think V5 patch set
is just what we want, we want to use the OFF state's voltage (1.5V) of this MAX7322 IO0 GPIO regulator. Thanks.

Anson.


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> > > +               };
> > > +
> > >
> > > Anson.
> > >