[PATCH v2 1/4] dt-bindings: PCI: rcar-gen4-pci-host: Document optional aux clock

[Rob Herring]

On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 6:57 AM Manivannan Sadhasivam
<manivannan.sadhasivam at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 10:42:20PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On 5/9/25 9:37 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2025 at 04:45:21PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > Document 'aux' clock which are used to supply the PCIe bus. This
> > > > is useful in case of a hardware setup, where the PCIe controller
> > > > input clock and the PCIe bus clock are supplied from the same
> > > > clock synthesiser, but from different differential clock outputs:
> > >
> > > How different is this clock from the 'reference clock'? I'm not sure what you
> > > mean by 'PCIe bus clock' here. AFAIK, endpoint only takes the reference clock
> > > and the binding already has 'ref' clock for that purpose. So I don't understand
> > > how this new clock is connected to the endpoint device.
> >
> > See the ASCII art below , CLK_DIF0 is 'ref' clock that feeds the controller
> > side, CLK_DIF1 is the bus (or 'aux') clock which feeds the bus (or endpoint)
> > side. Both clock come from the same clock synthesizer, but from two separate
> > clock outputs of the synthesizer.
> >
>
> Okay. So separate refclks are suppplied to the host and endpoint here and no,
> you should not call the other one as 'aux' clock, it is still the refclk. In
> this case, you should describe the endpoint refclk in the PCIe bridge node:
>
>                 pcie at ... {
>                         clock = <refclk_host>;
>                         ...
>
>                         pcie at 0 {
>                                 device_type = "pci";
>                                 reg = <0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0>;
>                                 bus-range = <0x01 0xff>;
>                                 clock = <refclk_ep>;
>                                 ...
>                         };
>                 };
>
>
> and use the pwrctrl driver PCI_PWRCTRL_SLOT to enable it. Right now, the slot
> pwrctrl driver is not handling the refclk, but I can submit a patch for that.

There's another discussion about PCIe clocks here[1]. Seems there's a
variety of options here with spread-spectrum layered on top.

Rob

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250425092012.95418-2-cassel@kernel.org