Re: [PATCH v7 07/13] dt-bindings: memory-controllers: add Exynos5422 DMC device description

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed May 08 2019 - 16:36:34 EST


On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 4:45 AM Lukasz Luba <l.luba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 5/8/19 9:19 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 19:04, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> +- devfreq-events : phandles of the PPMU events used by the controller.
> >>> +- samsung,syscon-chipid : phandle of the ChipID used by the controller.
> >>> +- samsung,syscon-clk : phandle of the clock register set used by the controller.
> >>
> >> Looks like a hack. Can't you get this from the clocks property? What is
> >> this for?
> >
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > Lukasz uses these two syscon regmaps to read certain registers. For
> > chipid he reads it to check the size of attached memory (only 2 GB
> > version is supported). This indeed looks like a hack. However the
> > second regmap (clk) is needed to get the timing data from registers
> > from DMC clock driver address space. These are registers with memory
> > timing so their data is not exposed anyway in common clk framework.

Okay, please just explain what your accessing. Consider adding the
offset as a cell in case stuff moves around on another chip.

> >
> > Best regards,
> > Krzysztof
>
> Thank you Krzysztof for a fast response. I have also responded to Rob.
> I wouldn't call accessing chipid registers as a hack, though. The DMC
> registers do not contain information about the memory chip since it is
> in phase of production the board not the chip. Thus, chipid regs (which
> loads from e-fuses) are best place to put information about memory
> type/size.

For efuses, we have a binding (nvmem). Maybe you should use it.

Rob