[PATCH v3 5/5] phy: qcom: qmp-pcie: add x1e80100 qref supplies

Konrad Dybcio konrad.dybcio at oss.qualcomm.com
Tue May 27 03:50:21 PDT 2025


On 5/26/25 3:47 PM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 10:03:18PM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>> On 5/8/25 11:45 AM, Johan Hovold wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 04:50:30PM +0800, Qiang Yu wrote:
>>>> On 5/8/2025 4:20 PM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> 
>>>>> This still looks wrong and you never replied to why these supplies
>>>>> shouldn't be handled by the tcsr clock driver that supplies these
>>>>> clocks:
>>>>>
>>>>> 	https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aBHUmXx6N72_sCH9@hovoldconsulting.com/
>>>
>>>> Sorry, I thought Konrad had convinced you.
>>>
>>> IIRC, he just said you guys were told to add the QREF supply to the PHY.
>>> That's not an argument.
>>>
>>>> If the TCSR driver manages these supplies, would it be possible for tscr
>>>> driver to recognize when it needs to turn vdda-qref on or off for a
>>>> specific PCIe port?
>>>
>>> Sure, just add a lookup table to the driver and enable the required
>>> supplies when a ref clock is enabled.
>>>
>>> As I mentioned in the other thread, the T14s has the following QREF
>>> supplies:
>>>
>>> 	
>>> 	VDD_A_QREFS_1P2_A
>>> 	VDD_A_QREFS_1P2_B
>>>
>>> 	VDD_A_QREFS_0P875_A
>>> 	VDD_A_QREFS_0P875_B
>>> 	VDD_A_QREFS_0P875_0
>>> 	VDD_A_QREFS_0P875_2
>>> 	VDD_A_QREFS_0P875_3
>>>
>>> and it's not clear how these maps to the various consumer ref clocks,
>>> including the PCIe ones:
>>>
>>> 	#define TCSR_PCIE_2L_4_CLKREF_EN
>>> 	#define TCSR_PCIE_2L_5_CLKREF_EN
>>> 	#define TCSR_PCIE_8L_CLKREF_EN
>>> 	#define TCSR_PCIE_4L_CLKREF_EN
>>>
>>> That mapping can be done by the TCSR clock driver (which would also take
>>> care of the 1.2 V supplies).
>>
>> So we had an internal discussion about this and while it may work, it
>> would only do so for some SoCs, and maybe only on the surface, as the
>> wiring behind it is rather peculiar..
> 
> Care to expand on why it cannot be made to work generally?

"-ENODATA".. many connections are difficult to unambiguously decipher

> 
> Also, what would the mapping of the above QREF supplies to PCIe PHYs
> even look like?

I'm not sure I have a clear answer..

> 
>> Plus, not all QREF consumers have a clock expressed in TCSR as of
>> right now.
> 
> Is that because there is no corresponding bit in the TCSR or simply
> because it has not been described yet?

Unfortunately, the former.. Some IPs have a non-TCSR ref clock and
some are presumably implicitly fed by BI_TCXO

Konrad



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