[PATCH 2/7] dt-bindings: power: Add apple,pmgr-pwrstate binding

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 at 17:56, Hector Martin <marcan at marcan.st> wrote:
>
> On 07/10/2021 00.52, Hector Martin wrote:
> > I realize this is all kind of "not the way things are usually done", but
> > I don't want to pass up on the opportunity to have one driver last us
> > multiple SoCs if we have the chance, and it's looking like it should :-)
>
> Addendum: just found some prior art for this. See power/pd-samsung.yaml,
> which is another single-PD binding (though in that case they put them in
> the SoC node directly, not under a syscon).

Maybe the design is actually similar. In the Exynos there is a entire
subblock managing power - called Power Management Unit (PMU). It
controls most of power-related parts, except clock gating. For example
it covers registers related to entering deep-sleep modes or power
domains. However we split this into two:
1. Actual PMU driver which controls system-level power (and provides
syscon for other drivers needing to poke its registers... eh, life).
2. Power domain driver which binds multiple devices to a small address
spaces (three registers) inside PMU address space.

The address spaces above overlap, so the (1) PMU driver takes for
example 1004_0000 - 1004_5000 and power domain devices bind to e.g.
1004_4000, 1004_4020, 1004_4040.

Best regards,
Krzysztof