[PATCH 1/2] arm64: dts: rockchip: Enable HDD power on helios64

Florian Klink flokli at flokli.de
Wed Oct 20 02:59:22 PDT 2021


This adds the hdd_{a,b}_power blocks present in the armbian helios64
dts. [1]

Without those powered up, no HDDs will appear (except one connected via
the m.2 slot).

>From https://wiki.kobol.io/helios64/sata/#hdd-power:

> The power delivery of the HDDs is divided into two group:
>
>     HDD Rail A (Max. 3x Drives)
>     HDD Rail B (Max. 2x Drives)
>
> Helios64 implements a power staggering approach where HDD Rail A will be
> powered up first, then few seconds later HDD Rail B will be powered up.
> This power control scenario is performed to reduce the inrush current
> during disk spin-up.

In practice, this power staggering approach will be included in the
bootloader (not in the kernel), as we might want to boot from a SATA
drive.

>From my experiments, if the bootloader doesn't implement the power
staggering, only one HDD will get recognized (probably cause the others
didn't boot due to few power).

Still, it makes sense to expose this block in the device-tree, so the
kernel can ensure both rails are on (and this can be shared with
u-boot).

[1] https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/744ea89a589d62cb6f409baab60fc6664520bc39/patch/kernel/archive/rockchip64-5.14/add-board-helios64.patch

Signed-off-by: Florian Klink <flokli at flokli.de>
---
 .../dts/rockchip/rk3399-kobol-helios64.dts    | 32 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-kobol-helios64.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-kobol-helios64.dts
index 738cfd21df3e..93745dcc2af6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-kobol-helios64.dts
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-kobol-helios64.dts
@@ -82,6 +82,30 @@ led-1 {
 		};
 	};
 
+	hdd_a_power: hdd-a-power {
+		compatible = "regulator-fixed";
+		enable-active-high;
+		gpio = <&gpio1 RK_PA0 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
+		pinctrl-0 = <&hdd_a_power_en>;
+		pinctrl-names = "default";
+		regulator-always-on;
+		regulator-boot-on;
+		regulator-name = "hdd_a_power";
+		startup-delay-us = <2000000>;
+	};
+
+	hdd_b_power: hdd-b-power {
+		compatible = "regulator-fixed";
+		enable-active-high;
+		gpio = <&gpio1 RK_PA1 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
+		pinctrl-0 = <&hdd_b_power_en>;
+		pinctrl-names = "default";
+		regulator-always-on;
+		regulator-boot-on;
+		regulator-name = "hdd_b_power";
+		startup-delay-us = <2000000>;
+	};
+
 	pcie_power: pcie-power {
 		compatible = "regulator-fixed";
 		enable-active-high;
@@ -422,6 +446,14 @@ pmic_int_l: pmic-int-l {
 	};
 
 	power {
+		hdd_a_power_en: hdd-a-power-en {
+			rockchip,pins = <1 RK_PA0 RK_FUNC_GPIO &pcfg_pull_none>;
+		};
+
+		hdd_b_power_en: hdd-b-power-en {
+			rockchip,pins = <1 RK_PA1 RK_FUNC_GPIO &pcfg_pull_none>;
+		};
+
 		vcc5v0_usb_en: vcc5v0-usb-en {
 			rockchip,pins = <1 RK_PC6 RK_FUNC_GPIO &pcfg_pull_none>;
 		};
-- 
2.33.0




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