[PATCH v5 1/2] arm64: dts: marvell: Add Armada 98DX2530 SoC and RD-AC5X board

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 10/05/2022 14:37, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 09:08:08AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 10/05/2022 06:14, Chris Packham wrote:
>>>
>>> Based on the information I have (which isn't much) there is a ref_clk 
>>> input that is connected to a 25MHz oscillator and then I'm assuming 
>>> these are all generated from that with various dividers. 25MHz is the 
>>> only documented option.
>>>
>>> There doesn't appear to be any documented register where I can read out 
>>> the divider ratios. It might be nice I could have the fixed osc node and 
>>> have these 3 clocks derived with fixed divisors but I don't see any what 
>>> of achieving that.
>>
>>
>> OK, but where are the dividers? The ref_clk is outside of SoC, so should
>> be defined in board DTS (at least its rate). If the rest is in the SoC,
>> they are usually part of clock controller, because usually they belong
>> to some power domain or have some clock gating.
> 
> 25MHz is a 'magic value' in Ethernet, nearly everything is based
> around it. And remember this SoC is basically an Ethernet switch with
> a small CPU glued on one side. If you gated clocks derived from the
> 25MHz reference clock, probably part of your Ethernet switch stops
> working, which is the whole point of this SoC. So i doubt there are
> gates on the derived clocks. If there is any gating and power domains,
> it is generally at a different level. You can power down individual
> ports of the Ethernet switch. But generally, there is one bit in a
> register somewhere to do that, and you don't have direct control over
> clocks and regulators etc.

The 25 MHz input clock I understand, it was about other clocks, like
spi, axi and core. These clearly look like part of SoC, so defining them
with a "stubs" (uncontrollable fixed-clock) is not the best way of
modelling an SoC. Although maybe this SoC does not have a proper clock
controller and even SPI and AXI clocks are always on?


Best regards,
Krzysztof