[PATCH] iio: adc: imx93_adc: load calibrated values even calibration failed

[Haibo Chen]

ADC calibration might fail because of the noise on reference voltage.
To avoid calibration fail, need to meet the following requirement:
ADC reference voltage Noise < 1.8V * 1/2^ENOB

For the case which the ADC reference voltage on board do not meet
the requirement, still load the calibrated values, so ADC can also
work but maybe not that accurate.

Signed-off-by: Haibo Chen <haibo.chen at nxp.com>
---
 drivers/iio/adc/imx93_adc.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/imx93_adc.c b/drivers/iio/adc/imx93_adc.c
index 7feaafd2316f246bd0c32fea99309900b5c65099..ebf976db746f02431a315b1faa86f151bb67132e 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/adc/imx93_adc.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/adc/imx93_adc.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #define IMX93_ADC_PCDR6		0x118
 #define IMX93_ADC_PCDR7		0x11c
 #define IMX93_ADC_CALSTAT	0x39C
+#define IMX93_ADC_CALCFG0	0X3A0
 
 /* ADC bit shift */
 #define IMX93_ADC_MCR_MODE_MASK			BIT(29)
@@ -58,6 +59,8 @@
 #define IMX93_ADC_IMR_ECH_MASK			BIT(0)
 #define IMX93_ADC_PCDR_CDATA_MASK		GENMASK(11, 0)
 
+#define IMX93_ADC_CALCFG0_LDFAIL_MASK		BIT(4)
+
 /* ADC status */
 #define IMX93_ADC_MSR_ADCSTATUS_IDLE			0
 #define IMX93_ADC_MSR_ADCSTATUS_POWER_DOWN		1
@@ -145,7 +148,7 @@ static void imx93_adc_config_ad_clk(struct imx93_adc *adc)
 
 static int imx93_adc_calibration(struct imx93_adc *adc)
 {
-	u32 mcr, msr;
+	u32 mcr, msr, calcfg;
 	int ret;
 
 	/* make sure ADC in power down mode */
@@ -158,6 +161,11 @@ static int imx93_adc_calibration(struct imx93_adc *adc)
 
 	imx93_adc_power_up(adc);
 
+	/* Enable loading of calibrated values even in fail condition */
+	calcfg = readl(adc->regs + IMX93_ADC_CALCFG0);
+	calcfg |= IMX93_ADC_CALCFG0_LDFAIL_MASK;
+	writel(calcfg, adc->regs + IMX93_ADC_CALCFG0);
+
 	/*
 	 * TODO: we use the default TSAMP/NRSMPL/AVGEN in MCR,
 	 * can add the setting of these bit if need in future.
@@ -179,11 +187,14 @@ static int imx93_adc_calibration(struct imx93_adc *adc)
 
 	/* check whether calbration is success or not */
 	msr = readl(adc->regs + IMX93_ADC_MSR);
-	if (msr & IMX93_ADC_MSR_CALFAIL_MASK) {
+	if (msr & IMX93_ADC_MSR_CALFAIL_MASK)
+		/*
+		 * Only give warning here, this means the noise of the
+		 * reference voltage do not meet the requirement:
+		 *     ADC reference voltage Noise < 1.8V * 1/2^ENOB
+		 * And the reault of ADC is not that accurate.
+		 */
 		dev_warn(adc->dev, "ADC calibration failed!\n");
-		imx93_adc_power_down(adc);
-		return -EAGAIN;
-	}
 
 	return 0;
 }

---
base-commit: bc8aa6cdadcc00862f2b5720e5de2e17f696a081
change-id: 20250423-adcpatch-cb59c5255961

Best regards,
-- 
Haibo Chen <haibo.chen at nxp.com>