[PATCH v7 02/13] dt-bindings: clk: zte: Add zx297520v3 top clock and reset controller
Rob Herring (Arm)
robh at kernel.org
Thu Jul 16 17:05:29 PDT 2026
On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:35:38 +0300, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> These SoCs have 3 clock and reset controllers: Top, Matrix and LSP.
> Clocks go from oscillator -> top -> matrix -> LSP, with a register in
> top controlling most clocks that get passed to matrix and a register in
> matrix controlling all the clocks that get passed to LSP.
>
> Generally every device has two clocks (one work clock, and one that
> connects it to the bus, I call it PCLK), two reset bits (I don't know
> what the difference is - sometimes asserting one is enough to reset the
> device, sometimes both need to be asserted). PCLK and WCLK are
> controlled by individual gates. Some devices have a mux and/or a
> divider for their work clock. Some devices, like the GPIO controller,
> only have reset bits and no clocks.
>
> The top clock controller is fed by a 26mhz external oscillator and has 4
> PLLs to generate other clock rates. ZTE's kernel mostly relies on the
> boot ROM to set up PLLs, but one LTE-Related PLL is not configured
> on some boards. Therefore my driver contains code to program PLLs. It
> produces identical settings as the boot ROM for the pre-programmed
> frequencies.
>
> Not all clocks will have an explicit user in the end. I am defining a
> lot of them simply to shut them off. The boot loader sets up a few of
> the proprietary timers, which will send regular IRQs (although the
> kernel of course doesn't need to listen to them). I don't plan to add a
> driver for the proprietary timer as I see no use for them - the ARM arch
> timer works just fine. I will add a driver for the very similar
> proprietary watchdog though.
>
> The clock list in this patch is pretty complete but not exhaustive.
> There are other bits that are enabled, but I couldn't deduce what they
> are controlling by trial and error. Some of them seem to do nothing.
> Others cause an instant hang of the board when disabled. It is quite
> likely that a handful more clocks will be added in the future, but not a
> large number.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmail.com>
>
> ---
>
> Changes v6->v7:
> *) Moved the bingings back into clock/ (Krzysztof). use clock-controller@
> in example and in the later DTSI patch.
>
> *) With as lucky find in strings in LTE's cpko.ko blob I could make sense
> of the register that controls which clocks get passed from PLLs into
> the clock distribution inside topcrm. Importantly that also narrows
> which clocks can possibly be passed to Matrix, so I could slim down the
> bindings considerably.
>
> *) Add a usb phy child node with the phy schema added in the previous
> patch. I don't expect the USB status register to ever be in another
> place, so the binding expresses the @84 expectation.
>
> Changes v5->v6:
> Set value for syscon-reboot example (Sashiko). It was my intention to
> set only the lowest bit, and I think Sashiko is right that without
> 'value' being set, all other bits are actively set to 0. It shouldn't
> matter given my understanding of the hardware (afaics all other bits are
> ignored), but actively clearing bits was not my intention.
>
> I haven't changed the name match for "syscon-reboot". I see plenty of
> examples of hardcoding this string as opposed to having a regex for
> syscon-reboot at 12345678 in other bindings.
>
> Changes v4->v5:
>
> Rename from zte,zx297520v3-topclk to zte,zx297520v3-topcrm and move to
> soc/zte
> Fix path in MAINTAINERS
> Add syscon-reboot node to the binding
> Give the USB and HSIC PHY resets their own reset control
> ---
> .../bindings/clock/zte,zx297520v3-topcrm.yaml | 123 +++++++++++++++++++++
> MAINTAINERS | 3 +
> include/dt-bindings/clock/zte,zx297520v3-clk.h | 66 +++++++++++
> include/dt-bindings/reset/zte,zx297520v3-reset.h | 32 ++++++
> 4 files changed, 224 insertions(+)
>
My bot found errors running 'make dt_binding_check' on your patch:
yamllint warnings/errors:
dtschema/dtc warnings/errors:
/builds/robherring/dt-review-ci/linux/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/zte,zx297520v3-usb-phy.example.dtb: clock-controller (zte,zx297520v3-topcrm): 'clocks' is a required property
from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/clock/zte,zx297520v3-topcrm.yaml
/builds/robherring/dt-review-ci/linux/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/zte,zx297520v3-usb-phy.example.dtb: clock-controller (zte,zx297520v3-topcrm): 'clock-names' is a required property
from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/clock/zte,zx297520v3-topcrm.yaml
/builds/robherring/dt-review-ci/linux/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/zte,zx297520v3-usb-phy.example.dtb: clock-controller (zte,zx297520v3-topcrm): 'syscon-reboot' is a required property
from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/clock/zte,zx297520v3-topcrm.yaml
/builds/robherring/dt-review-ci/linux/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/zte,zx297520v3-usb-phy.example.dtb: clock-controller (zte,zx297520v3-topcrm): '#clock-cells' is a required property
from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/clock/zte,zx297520v3-topcrm.yaml
doc reference errors (make refcheckdocs):
See https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/devicetree/patch/20260717-zx29clk-v7-2-408411cfcf36@gmail.com
The base for the series is generally the latest rc1. A different dependency
should be noted in *this* patch.
If you already ran 'make dt_binding_check' and didn't see the above
error(s), then make sure 'yamllint' is installed and dt-schema is up to
date:
pip3 install dtschema --upgrade
Please check and re-submit after running the above command yourself. Note
that DT_SCHEMA_FILES can be set to your schema file to speed up checking
your schema. However, it must be unset to test all examples with your schema.
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