[PATCH] serial: 8250_bcm2835aux: Add ACPI support

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 19:39:49 PST 2022



On 2/1/2022 12:42 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2/1/22 13:24, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2/1/2022 10:50 AM, Adrien Thierry wrote:
>>> Add ACPI support to 8250_bcm2835aux driver. This makes it possible to
>>> use the miniuart on the Raspberry Pi with the tianocore/edk2 UEFI
>>> firmware.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Adrien Thierry <athierry at redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_bcm2835aux.c | 103 +++++++++++++++++-----
>>>   1 file changed, 83 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_bcm2835aux.c 
>>> b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_bcm2835aux.c
>>> index fd95860cd..b904b321e 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_bcm2835aux.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_bcm2835aux.c
>>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
>>>    * simultaneously to rs485.
>>>    */
>>> +#include <linux/acpi.h>
>>>   #include <linux/clk.h>
>>>   #include <linux/io.h>
>>>   #include <linux/module.h>
>>> @@ -44,6 +45,10 @@ struct bcm2835aux_data {
>>>       u32 cntl;
>>>   };
>>> +struct bcm2835_aux_serial_acpi_driver_data {
>>> +    resource_size_t offset;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>>   static void bcm2835aux_rs485_start_tx(struct uart_8250_port *up)
>>>   {
>>>       if (!(up->port.rs485.flags & SER_RS485_RX_DURING_TX)) {
>>> @@ -82,8 +87,12 @@ static int bcm2835aux_serial_probe(struct 
>>> platform_device *pdev)
>>>   {
>>>       struct uart_8250_port up = { };
>>>       struct bcm2835aux_data *data;
>>> +    struct bcm2835_aux_serial_acpi_driver_data *acpi_data;
>>>       struct resource *res;
>>>       int ret;
>>> +    resource_size_t mapbase;
>>> +    resource_size_t mapsize;
>>> +    unsigned int uartclk;
>>>       /* allocate the custom structure */
>>>       data = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
>>> @@ -108,10 +117,12 @@ static int bcm2835aux_serial_probe(struct 
>>> platform_device *pdev)
>>>       platform_set_drvdata(pdev, data);
>>> -    /* get the clock - this also enables the HW */
>>> -    data->clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);
>>> -    if (IS_ERR(data->clk))
>>> -        return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, PTR_ERR(data->clk), "could 
>>> not get clk\n");
>>> +    if (dev_of_node(&pdev->dev)) {
>>> +        /* get the clock - this also enables the HW */
>>> +        data->clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);
>>> +        if (IS_ERR(data->clk))
>>> +            return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, PTR_ERR(data->clk), 
>>> "could not get clk\n");
>>> +    }
>>
>> This does not seem necessary, if the clk is NULL when probed via ACPI, 
>> all of the clk_* APIs will deal with that gracefully. If you need not 
>> to treat -ENOENT as a hard error here, consider switching to 
>> devm_clk_get_optional(). Given that you look at the 'clock-frequency' 
>> property, you can still have some generic code, something like:
>>
>>      if (IS_ERR(data->clk)) {
>>          ret = device_property_read_u32(&pdev->dev, "clock-frequency", 
>> &uartclk);
>>          if (ret)
>>              return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, ret, "could not get 
>> clk\n");
>>      }
>>
>>>       /* get the interrupt */
>>>       ret = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
>>> @@ -125,20 +136,59 @@ static int bcm2835aux_serial_probe(struct 
>>> platform_device *pdev)
>>>           dev_err(&pdev->dev, "memory resource not found");
>>>           return -EINVAL;
>>>       }
>>> -    up.port.mapbase = res->start;
>>> -    up.port.mapsize = resource_size(res);
>>> -
>>> -    /* Check for a fixed line number */
>>> -    ret = of_alias_get_id(pdev->dev.of_node, "serial");
>>> -    if (ret >= 0)
>>> -        up.port.line = ret;
>>> -
>>> -    /* enable the clock as a last step */
>>> -    ret = clk_prepare_enable(data->clk);
>>> -    if (ret) {
>>> -        dev_err(&pdev->dev, "unable to enable uart clock - %d\n",
>>> -            ret);
>>> -        return ret;
>>
>> All of that path can be common, and you can just define an offset to 
>> apply to the resource at the top after you fetched the memory 
>> resource. The offset will be non-0 for ACPI and 0 for non-ACPI. That 
>> is, no need for the intermediate variables and conditional paths 
>> whether this is ACPI apply this offset, or not.
>>
>>> +
>>> +    mapbase = res->start;
>>> +    mapsize = resource_size(res);
>>> +
>>> +    if (has_acpi_companion(&pdev->dev)) {
>>> +        const struct acpi_device_id *match;
>>> +
>>> +        match = 
>>> acpi_match_device(pdev->dev.driver->acpi_match_table, &pdev->dev);
>>> +        if (!match)
>>> +            return -ENODEV;
>>> +
>>> +        acpi_data = (struct bcm2835_aux_serial_acpi_driver_data 
>>> *)match->driver_data;
>>> +
>>> +        /* Some UEFI implementations (e.g. tianocore/edk2 for the 
>>> Raspberry Pi)
>>> +         * describe the miniuart with a base address that 
>>> encompasses the auxiliary
>>> +         * registers shared between the miniuart and spi.
>>> +         *
>>> +         * This is due to historical reasons, see discussion here :
>>> +         * https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/topic/87501357#84349
>>> +         *
>>> +         * We need to add the offset between the miniuart and auxiliary
>>> +         * registers to get the real miniuart base address.
>>
>> And ACPI on the Pi4 is so widely deployed that fixing the miniuart 
>> resources is not an option at all? This really really continues to 
>> contribute to my impression that ACPI on the Pi4 is a fad more than a 
>> real thing, sorry.
> 
> The problem again, is that this resource is legacy and used by 
> windows/vmware/etc on both the rpi3 and rpi4. So, unfortunately it 
> cannot really be changed without breaking existing OSs.

Cannot we create another entry that only Linux would match? This is the 
first time that an attempt for ACPIfying the 8250_bcm2835aux is done as 
far as upstream is concerned so any cruft of legacy that is artificial 
should really be avoided and this appear to be some.
-- 
Florian



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