Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] phy: Add new Exynos5 USB 3.0 PHY driver

From: Vivek Gautam
Date: Tue Nov 05 2013 - 12:56:11 EST


Hi Kamil,


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Kamil Debski <k.debski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> From: Vivek Gautam [mailto:gautamvivek1987@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 8:20 AM
>> To: Kishon Vijay Abraham I
>> Cc: Kamil Debski; Vivek Gautam; Linux USB Mailing List; linux-samsung-
>> soc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
>> devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
>> linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Greg KH; Kukjin Kim; Sylwester Nawrocki;
>> Tomasz Figa; Felipe Balbi; Julius Werner; Jingoo Han
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] phy: Add new Exynos5 USB 3.0 PHY driver
>>
>> Hi Kishon,
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >
>> > On Monday 04 November 2013 03:45 PM, Kamil Debski wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Kishon,
>> >>
>> >>> From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I [mailto:kishon@xxxxxx]
>> >>> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 7:55 AM
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi Vivek,
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thursday 31 October 2013 01:15 PM, Vivek Gautam wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Add a new driver for the USB 3.0 PHY on Exynos5 series of SoCs.
>> >>>> The new driver uses the generic PHY framework and will interact
>> >>>> with
>> >>>> DWC3 controller present on Exynos5 series of SoCs.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> In Exynos, you have a single IP that supports both USB3 and USB2
>> PHY
>> >>> right? I think that needs to be mentioned here.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> As far as I know the IP is different.
>> >
>> >
>> > Ok. Sometime back Vivek was mentioning about a single IP for both
>> USB3
>> > and USB2. Thought it should be this driver. Anyway thanks for the
>> clarification.
>>
>> Right Kishon, I had mentioned that Exynos5's dwc3 controller have a
>> single IP for USB2 and USB3 phy.
>> From what i see, on exynos5 systems the dwc3 controller uses a combo of
>> usb 2 (utmi+) and usb 3 (pipe 3) phy (with base address starting
>> 0x12100000).
>>
>> Kamil, Tomasz,
>>
>> Please correct me if i am wrong.
>
> I have the Exynos 5250 documentation and I found two phy register ranges:
> 1) USB 2.0 PHY having the base address of 0x1213 0000
> Chapter 33. USB 2.0 Host Controller
> Subchapter 33.5.2 Phy Control Register p. 1696
> First register's description is
> "USB2.0 phy control register"
> 2) USB 3.0 PHY (I guess) with the base address 0x1210 0000
> Chapter 35. USB 3.0 DRD Controller
> Subchapter 35.4.6 PHY Control Register p. 1872
>
> Jingoo, could you comment on the above? You may know more than we do :)
>
> In addition, I have a question to you Vivek - does your USB 3.0
> PHY support both host and device?

Yes, this PHY driver supports both Host as well as device type of
operations of DWC3 controller.
This driver is a straight port from older driver available at
drivers/usb/phy/phy-samsung-usb3.c which also had been tested
for host as well as device operation of DWC3.

>
> [snip]
>
> Best wishes,
> Kamil Debski
>



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Best Regards
Vivek Gautam
Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore
India
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