[RFC] PCI: imx6: add support for internal oscillator on i.MX7D

Matthias Schiffer matthias.schiffer at ew.tq-group.com
Fri Sep 24 01:05:15 PDT 2021


Adds support for a DT property fsl,internal-osc to select the internal
oscillator for the PCIe PHY.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <matthias.schiffer at ew.tq-group.com>
Cc: Markus Niebel <Markus.Niebel at ew.tq-group.com>
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Okay, so while this patch is nice and short, I'm note sure if it's a good
solution, hence I submit it as an RFC. It is roughly based on code from
older linux-imx versions [1] - although it seems this feature was never
supported on i.MX7D even by linux-imx (possibly because of compliance
issues with the internal clock, however I haven't found a definitive
erratum backing this), but only on other SoC like i.MX6QP.

The device tree binding docs of the driver are somewhat lacking, but
looking at [1] it seems that an external reference clock takes the place of
the "pcie_bus" clock - various pieces of the driver skip enabling/disabling
this clock when an external clock is configured.

>From this I've come to the conclusion that the clock settings in
imx7d.dtsi do not really make sense: The pcie_bus clock is configured to
PLL_ENET_MAIN_100M_CLK, but this seems wrong for both internal and
external reference clocks:

- For the internal clock, the correct clock should be PCIE_PHY_ROOT_CLK
  according to the reference manual
- The external clocks, this should refer to an actual external clock, or
  possibly a fixed-clock node

I would be great if someone with more insight into this could chime in
and tell me if my reasoning here is correct or not.

Unfortunately I only have our MBa7x at my disposal for further
experimentation. This board does not have an external reference clock for
the PCIe PHY, so I cannot test the behaviour for settings that use an
external clock. Without this patch (and adding the new flag to the MBa7x
DTS), the boot will hang while waiting for the PCIe link to come up.

So, for the actual question (given that my thoughts above make any sense):
How do we want to implement this?

1. A simple boolean flag, like this patch provides
2. Allow Device Trees not to specify a "pcie_bus" clock at all, meaning
   it should use the internal clock
3. Special handling when the "pcie_bus" clock is configured to
   PCIE_PHY_ROOT_CLK - is such a thing even possible, or is this
   breaking the clock driver's abstraction too much?
4. Something more involved, with a proper clock sel as the source for
   "pcie_bus"

Solution 4. seems difficult to implement nicely, as the PCIe driver
also fiddles with IMX7D_GPR12_PCIE_PHY_REFCLK_SEL for power management:
the clock selection is switched back to the internal clock in
imx6_pcie_clk_disable(), which also disables its source PCIE_PHY_ROOT_CLK,
effectively gating the clock.

Regards,
Matthias


[1] https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/linux-imx/tree/drivers/pci/host/pci-imx6.c?h=imx_4.1.15_2.0.0_ga

 drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-imx6.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-imx6.c b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-imx6.c
index 80fc98acf097..021499b9ee7c 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-imx6.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-imx6.c
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ struct imx6_pcie {
 	struct regulator	*vpcie;
 	struct regulator	*vph;
 	void __iomem		*phy_base;
+	bool			internal_osc;
 
 	/* power domain for pcie */
 	struct device		*pd_pcie;
@@ -637,7 +638,9 @@ static void imx6_pcie_init_phy(struct imx6_pcie *imx6_pcie)
 		break;
 	case IMX7D:
 		regmap_update_bits(imx6_pcie->iomuxc_gpr, IOMUXC_GPR12,
-				   IMX7D_GPR12_PCIE_PHY_REFCLK_SEL, 0);
+				   IMX7D_GPR12_PCIE_PHY_REFCLK_SEL,
+				   imx6_pcie->internal_osc ?
+					IMX7D_GPR12_PCIE_PHY_REFCLK_SEL : 0);
 		break;
 	case IMX6SX:
 		regmap_update_bits(imx6_pcie->iomuxc_gpr, IOMUXC_GPR12,
@@ -1130,6 +1133,9 @@ static int imx6_pcie_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 				 &imx6_pcie->tx_swing_low))
 		imx6_pcie->tx_swing_low = 127;
 
+	if (of_property_read_bool(node, "fsl,internal-osc"))
+		imx6_pcie->internal_osc = true;
+
 	/* Limit link speed */
 	pci->link_gen = 1;
 	ret = of_property_read_u32(node, "fsl,max-link-speed", &pci->link_gen);
-- 
2.17.1




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