Re: [RFC 00/11] Add generic MFD i.MX mix and audiomix support

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 1:06 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 10:04 AM Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The i.MX8MP has some new IPs called mixes. They are formed usually by some
> > GPRs that can be split into different functionalities. The first example
> > here is the audiomix which has dedicated registers that can be registered
> > as a clock controller and some other registers that can be registered as
> > a reset controller, plus some dedicated ones that will be registered as
> > syscon and used by each dedicated audio IP.
> >
> > More mixes to be following the same structure are to come, like hdmimix,
> > dispmix and mediamix. They will all be populated and registered by the MFD
> > imx-mix generic driver.
>
> Can you enumerate what functionality is in each one?
>
> I'm not convinced that using an MFD driver is the best solution here,
> compared to e.g. a clk driver with a few extra bits in it, if most of the
> code for the child drivers ends up being for the clk subsystem.
>
> Lee suggested maybe having a generic (platform independent) driver
> for it, which may help here, as it would let others share the trivial
> mfd portion.
>
> Another option that we are using on several platforms today is to
> have a single syscon node and have other drivers that reference
> that one using a phandle to get at the regmap.

Sorry I replied to the wrong thread, I meant to reply to the v3 version.

       Arnd