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| Series | Enable ath10k wcn3990 wifi driver support on sdm845 | expand |
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 17:22:54 +0530, Govind Singh wrote: > Add missing optional properties in WCN3990 wifi node. > > Signed-off-by: Govind Singh <govinds@codeaurora.org> > --- > .../bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++------ > 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Hi, On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 4:53 AM Govind Singh <govinds@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > Add missing optional properties in WCN3990 wifi node. > > Signed-off-by: Govind Singh <govinds@codeaurora.org> > --- > .../bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++------ > 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) Point of order: please CC LKML on _all_ your patches. Yes, it's a firehose. CCing LKML allows your patches to be found on lore.kernel.org's patchwork and also allows people to find your patches via <https://lkml.kernel.org/r/MSG_ID> links. > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt > index 7fd4e8c..f831bb1 100644 > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt > @@ -37,12 +37,20 @@ Optional properties: > - clocks: List of clock specifiers, must contain an entry for each required > entry in clock-names. > - clock-names: Should contain the clock names "wifi_wcss_cmd", "wifi_wcss_ref", > - "wifi_wcss_rtc". > -- interrupts: List of interrupt lines. Must contain an entry > - for each entry in the interrupt-names property. > + "wifi_wcss_rtc" for "qcom,ipq4019-wifi" compatible target and > + "cxo_ref_clk_pin", "smmu_aggre2_noc_clk" for "qcom,wcn3990-wifi" > + compatible target. I always get confused with these big bindings patches that hide everything under a big "Optional properties" section to avoid specifying which properties are actually optional and which ones are required. After your patch and thinking about "qcom,wcn3990-wifi" in particular, it's unclear to me which of the following is true (or maybe something totally different I didn't think of) A) On wcn3990-wifi these clocks should be a required property but it's only listed under "Optional" because it's not used for some of the different WiFi drivers using this same bindings. B) On wcn3990-wifi these clocks should either both be there or neither. C) On wcm3990-wifi you can specify zero, either, or both of these clocks. AKA they are independently optional. It might make sense to reorganize this bindings to make this clearer? ...not just for clock but for interrupts / regulators as well. Maybe you need to break this down into sections per class of compatible string, or add a list per compatible string down below? Also: even stranger is that even though you list two clocks here the current driver I see in linuxnext only has "cxo_ref_clk_pin". > +- interrupts: reference to the list of 17 interrupt no's for "qcom,ipq4019-wifi" > + compatible target. > + reference to the list of 12 interrupt no's for "qcom,wcn3990-wifi" > + compatible target. > + Must contain interrupt-names property per entry for > + "qcom,ath10k", "qcom,ipq4019-wifi" compatible targets. ...and just to add some credence to my concerns above, "interrupts" are currently listed under "Optional" properties but I don't think that the wcn3990 driver will actually work if you don't specify any of the interrupts, right? AKA for wcn3990 they are _not_ optional and you must have exactly 12 interrupts. One separate issue I have is with your example, which you didn't change in this patch. You should fix the example with the same feedback that I had to your patch ("dts: arm64/sdm845: Add WCN3990 WLAN module device node"). -Doug
Quoting Govind Singh (2018-10-10 04:52:54) > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt > index 7fd4e8c..f831bb1 100644 > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt > @@ -37,12 +37,20 @@ Optional properties: > - clocks: List of clock specifiers, must contain an entry for each required > entry in clock-names. > - clock-names: Should contain the clock names "wifi_wcss_cmd", "wifi_wcss_ref", > - "wifi_wcss_rtc". > -- interrupts: List of interrupt lines. Must contain an entry > - for each entry in the interrupt-names property. > + "wifi_wcss_rtc" for "qcom,ipq4019-wifi" compatible target and > + "cxo_ref_clk_pin", "smmu_aggre2_noc_clk" for "qcom,wcn3990-wifi" > + compatible target. > +- interrupts: reference to the list of 17 interrupt no's for "qcom,ipq4019-wifi" Nitpick: Can you write out "numbers" instead of "no's"? > + compatible target. > + reference to the list of 12 interrupt no's for "qcom,wcn3990-wifi" > + compatible target. > + Must contain interrupt-names property per entry for > + "qcom,ath10k", "qcom,ipq4019-wifi" compatible targets. > + > - interrupt-names: Must include the entries for MSI interrupt > names ("msi0" to "msi15") and legacy interrupt > - name ("legacy"), > + name ("legacy") for "qcom,ath10k", "qcom,ipq4019-wifi" > + compatible targets. > - qcom,msi_addr: MSI interrupt address. > - qcom,msi_base: Base value to add before writing MSI data into > MSI address register. > @@ -55,7 +63,8 @@ Optional properties: > - qcom,ath10k-pre-calibration-data : pre calibration data as an array, > the length can vary between hw versions. > - <supply-name>-supply: handle to the regulator device tree node > - optional "supply-name" is "vdd-0.8-cx-mx". > + optional "supply-name" are "vdd-0.8-cx-mx", > + "vdd-1.8-xo", "vdd-1.3-rfa" and "vdd-3.3-ch0". Why can't the wifi firmware manage these regulators itself? And these names don't seem to match any sort of schematic or really describe what this device is. From what I can tell, we've combined the off-SoC wifi module with the on-SoC wifi I/O space into one DT node here and then relied on that node to make some driver probe in the kernel to do wifi stuff. Can we model this properly by actually showing that there's something in the SoC, and there's something outside the SoC, and these two things are connected by having two nodes and a phandle between them? > > Example (to supply the calibration data alone): > > @@ -133,8 +142,10 @@ wifi@18000000 { > compatible = "qcom,wcn3990-wifi"; > reg = <0x18800000 0x800000>; > reg-names = "membase"; > - clocks = <&clock_gcc clk_aggre2_noc_clk>; > - clock-names = "smmu_aggre2_noc_clk" > + clocks = <&clock_gcc clk_aggre2_noc_clk>, > + <&clock_gcc clk_rf_clk2_pin>; > + clock-names = "smmu_aggre2_noc_clk", > + "cxo_ref_clk_pin"; > interrupts = > <0 130 0 /* CE0 */ >, > <0 131 0 /* CE1 */ >,
On 2018-10-17 04:23, Doug Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 4:53 AM Govind Singh <govinds@codeaurora.org> > wrote: >> >> Add missing optional properties in WCN3990 wifi node. >> >> Signed-off-by: Govind Singh <govinds@codeaurora.org> >> --- >> .../bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt | 28 >> ++++++++++++++++------ >> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > Point of order: please CC LKML on _all_ your patches. Yes, it's a > firehose. CCing LKML allows your patches to be found on > lore.kernel.org's patchwork and also allows people to find your > patches via <https://lkml.kernel.org/r/MSG_ID> links. > > >> diff --git >> a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt >> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt >> index 7fd4e8c..f831bb1 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt >> @@ -37,12 +37,20 @@ Optional properties: >> - clocks: List of clock specifiers, must contain an entry for each >> required >> entry in clock-names. >> - clock-names: Should contain the clock names "wifi_wcss_cmd", >> "wifi_wcss_ref", >> - "wifi_wcss_rtc". >> -- interrupts: List of interrupt lines. Must contain an entry >> - for each entry in the interrupt-names property. >> + "wifi_wcss_rtc" for "qcom,ipq4019-wifi" compatible >> target and >> + "cxo_ref_clk_pin", "smmu_aggre2_noc_clk" for >> "qcom,wcn3990-wifi" >> + compatible target. > > I always get confused with these big bindings patches that hide > everything under a big "Optional properties" section to avoid > specifying which properties are actually optional and which ones are > required. > > After your patch and thinking about "qcom,wcn3990-wifi" in particular, > it's unclear to me which of the following is true (or maybe something > totally different I didn't think of) > > A) On wcn3990-wifi these clocks should be a required property but it's > only listed under "Optional" because it's not used for some of the > different WiFi drivers using this same bindings. > These clocks are optional as it is voted by firmware in newer fw versions. During transient state in case of fw crash, fw might remove the vote in its error/fatal handler. The apps vote helps in avoiding un-clocked hw(copy engine) access in transient state till driver recovers. > B) On wcn3990-wifi these clocks should either both be there or neither. > With the above explanation can you suggest where these controls should fall. > C) On wcm3990-wifi you can specify zero, either, or both of these > clocks. AKA they are independently optional. > > It might make sense to reorganize this bindings to make this clearer? > ...not just for clock but for interrupts / regulators as well. Maybe > you need to break this down into sections per class of compatible > string, or add a list per compatible string down below? > can you pls point me to some reference for the change you are expecting. I will check and rework accordingly. > Also: even stranger is that even though you list two clocks here the > current driver I see in linuxnext only has "cxo_ref_clk_pin". > smmu_aggre2_noc_clk is not applicable to SDM845 and required for other msm platforms. I will remove smmu_aggre2_noc_clk reference and add when this clock is available in upstream for respective target. > >> +- interrupts: reference to the list of 17 interrupt no's for >> "qcom,ipq4019-wifi" >> + compatible target. >> + reference to the list of 12 interrupt no's for >> "qcom,wcn3990-wifi" >> + compatible target. >> + Must contain interrupt-names property per entry for >> + "qcom,ath10k", "qcom,ipq4019-wifi" compatible targets. > > ...and just to add some credence to my concerns above, "interrupts" > are currently listed under "Optional" properties but I don't think > that the wcn3990 driver will actually work if you don't specify any of > the interrupts, right? AKA for wcn3990 they are _not_ optional and > you must have exactly 12 interrupts. > Yes, for other chip-set(QCAxx) also it should not be optional. I will move interrupt block to Required properties. > > One separate issue I have is with your example, which you didn't > change in this patch. You should fix the example with the same > feedback that I had to your patch ("dts: arm64/sdm845: Add WCN3990 > WLAN module device node"). > sure , will do in next revision. > -Doug
Hi Stephen and Govind, I was chatting with Govind, and he seemed to be a bit stalled on this. I'd encourage him to reply with whatever knowledge he has, because it's a bit hard to give definitive answers when I don't know all the inner workings here. (In fact, you, Stephen, probably know more than me about how Qualcomm MSM chips work.) First of all, I'll explain the limited bits I do know, and see how they fit in below. I may be wrong. WCN3990 is an external module, for supporting BT and Wifi RF components. It has a host interface for the Wifi, but it's not something the host knows how to talk to directly at all -- it's an "Analog IQ" interface, between an internal SoC MAC and PHY processor. Instead, we talk to this module via the System NOC (?). So while there are basically 2 distinct hardware components (on-SoC coprocessors, various internal communication buses, various shared memory regions, etc.; and the external WCN3990 module), there is almost no way for the main processor to "talk" to the WCN3990 directly. Another data point to throw into the mix: WCN3990 can apparently be used on multiple different SoCs -- I see public announcments about SDM835 (and 660?), and I'm currently playing with it on SDM845. So perhaps there is some value in understanding "WCN3990" as being distinct from "WiFi MAC/PHY hardware and communication logic found on a MSM SoC." But they do seem to be very tightly coupled... Side note: there is also a BT component on the WCN3990 module, and we *can* talk to that directly over UART. There's a separate binding going in for that, and it's a much clearer separation to divide "UART controller" and "BT/UART interface on WCN3990." On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:41:29AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote: > Quoting Govind Singh (2018-10-10 04:52:54) > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt > > @@ -55,7 +63,8 @@ Optional properties: > > - qcom,ath10k-pre-calibration-data : pre calibration data as an array, > > the length can vary between hw versions. > > - <supply-name>-supply: handle to the regulator device tree node > > - optional "supply-name" is "vdd-0.8-cx-mx". > > + optional "supply-name" are "vdd-0.8-cx-mx", > > + "vdd-1.8-xo", "vdd-1.3-rfa" and "vdd-3.3-ch0". > > Why can't the wifi firmware manage these regulators itself? In my understanding: At least 3 of those (all the supplies Govind is adding) are external pins on the RF module. Why do you assume these are something the firmware can control? In the schematics I'm looking at, this seems to be connected to a PMIC. While it's certainly possible this is something the Q6 processor (running modem and Wifi firmware) can control, it doesn't seem obvious to me that they *must* be able to. So I guess I'd say: why not represent these regulators in the device tree? It seems like a valid hardware description (like I said, 3 power rail pins on an external module). Now, your *next* paragraph might have hairier points :) > And these names don't seem to match any sort of schematic or really Which names? I see these pin names on the WCN3990 datasheets I see: VDD18_IO VDD18_XO VDD33_CH0 VDD33_CH1 VDD13_RFA 3 of those match the 3 Govind is adding, and they appear to line up with what I see in schematics. > describe what this device is. From what I can tell, we've combined the I've described "waht the device is" above to the best of my knowledge. If you're just looking at schematics, you might possibly be thrown by the fact that WCN3990 is packaged in a module provided by other vendors, so it might be labeled by that vendor on the schematic, not by the Qualcomm WCN3990 name. > off-SoC wifi module with the on-SoC wifi I/O space into one DT node here > and then relied on that node to make some driver probe in the kernel to > do wifi stuff. Can we model this properly by actually showing that I'll remind you that "properly" is often highly subjective :) > there's something in the SoC, and there's something outside the SoC, and > these two things are connected by having two nodes and a phandle between > them? Why phandle? Under what bus would you place the WCN3990? As per my description above, there is really no way to talk to it directly. So if anything, it seems like it would be a subnode of the node we're describing here. In favor of your separation though: there are many ways to utilize WCN3990 apparently, and I'd imagine the binding might change a bit depending on the SoC (e.g., different clocks?). So there might be value in describing the SDM{835,845,...whatever}-wifi-soc-components vs. external WCN3990. Additionally, I don't know if it's even possible to utilize a different RF module with the same SoC (is there a possibility of a, e.g., WCN3991 that can use the same SoC logic?). But I'm still not totally convinced that splitting this up really makes much sense. Is there other precedent for splitting out a separate node for something that we don't talk to at all (no digital interface)? Or do we just need a more accurate compatible property, that describes the fact that this is a SDM845+WCN3990 combination? The only thing that software would ever do with the separate node is look it up to find the regulators to power it on. Brian > > > > Example (to supply the calibration data alone): > > > > @@ -133,8 +142,10 @@ wifi@18000000 { > > compatible = "qcom,wcn3990-wifi"; > > reg = <0x18800000 0x800000>; > > reg-names = "membase"; > > - clocks = <&clock_gcc clk_aggre2_noc_clk>; > > - clock-names = "smmu_aggre2_noc_clk" > > + clocks = <&clock_gcc clk_aggre2_noc_clk>, > > + <&clock_gcc clk_rf_clk2_pin>; > > + clock-names = "smmu_aggre2_noc_clk", > > + "cxo_ref_clk_pin"; > > interrupts = > > <0 130 0 /* CE0 */ >, > > <0 131 0 /* CE1 */ >,
Quoting Brian Norris (2018-11-02 11:43:17) > Hi Stephen and Govind, > > I was chatting with Govind, and he seemed to be a bit stalled on this. > I'd encourage him to reply with whatever knowledge he has, because it's > a bit hard to give definitive answers when I don't know all the inner > workings here. (In fact, you, Stephen, probably know more than me about > how Qualcomm MSM chips work.) > > First of all, I'll explain the limited bits I do know, and see how they > fit in below. I may be wrong. > > WCN3990 is an external module, for supporting BT and Wifi RF components. > It has a host interface for the Wifi, but it's not something the host > knows how to talk to directly at all -- it's an "Analog IQ" interface, > between an internal SoC MAC and PHY processor. Instead, we talk to this > module via the System NOC (?). So while there are basically 2 distinct > hardware components (on-SoC coprocessors, various internal communication > buses, various shared memory regions, etc.; and the external WCN3990 > module), there is almost no way for the main processor to "talk" to the > WCN3990 directly. > > Another data point to throw into the mix: WCN3990 can apparently be used > on multiple different SoCs -- I see public announcments about SDM835 > (and 660?), and I'm currently playing with it on SDM845. So perhaps > there is some value in understanding "WCN3990" as being distinct from > "WiFi MAC/PHY hardware and communication logic found on a MSM SoC." But > they do seem to be very tightly coupled... > > Side note: there is also a BT component on the WCN3990 module, and we > *can* talk to that directly over UART. There's a separate binding going > in for that, and it's a much clearer separation to divide "UART > controller" and "BT/UART interface on WCN3990." Thanks for the background. I wasn't aware of much about this driver but taking this information and skimming the driver makes my mental model believe that the register space here is a custom I/O region in the SoC used to read/write to the BT/WiFi chip that's outside the SoC. Similar to i2c, SPI, or even PCI, in the way that the I/O region in the SoC is essentially the controller that is connected to the external chip. It's like the hardware engineers stuck the PCI hardware blob inside the SoC and then made special pins and wires for the thing the PCI device used to do internally. Or is that completely wrong still? > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:41:29AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote: > > Quoting Govind Singh (2018-10-10 04:52:54) > > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt > > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt > > > > @@ -55,7 +63,8 @@ Optional properties: > > > - qcom,ath10k-pre-calibration-data : pre calibration data as an array, > > > the length can vary between hw versions. > > > - <supply-name>-supply: handle to the regulator device tree node > > > - optional "supply-name" is "vdd-0.8-cx-mx". > > > + optional "supply-name" are "vdd-0.8-cx-mx", > > > + "vdd-1.8-xo", "vdd-1.3-rfa" and "vdd-3.3-ch0". > > > > Why can't the wifi firmware manage these regulators itself? > > In my understanding: > At least 3 of those (all the supplies Govind is adding) are external > pins on the RF module. Why do you assume these are something the > firmware can control? In the schematics I'm looking at, this seems to be > connected to a PMIC. While it's certainly possible this is something the > Q6 processor (running modem and Wifi firmware) can control, it doesn't > seem obvious to me that they *must* be able to. > > So I guess I'd say: why not represent these regulators in the device > tree? It seems like a valid hardware description (like I said, 3 power > rail pins on an external module). Agreed. I want to specify the regulators in DT. I'm mostly asking if there is firmware that runs and can control these regulators itself. If so, then I'm lost why that firmware can't manage these itself and let us ignore these requirements and never specify them in DT. Presumably there isn't firmware that can manage it? > > Now, your *next* paragraph might have hairier points :) > > > And these names don't seem to match any sort of schematic or really > > Which names? I see these pin names on the WCN3990 datasheets I see: > > VDD18_IO > VDD18_XO > VDD33_CH0 > VDD33_CH1 > VDD13_RFA > > 3 of those match the 3 Govind is adding, and they appear to line up with > what I see in schematics. Yes those three match up, but the other one, vdd-0.8-cx-mx, looks like the CX and MX power supplies that are typical of Qualcomm designs so maybe those regulators are used for the I/O region inside the SoC instead of the off-SoC chip? > > > describe what this device is. From what I can tell, we've combined the > > I've described "waht the device is" above to the best of my knowledge. > If you're just looking at schematics, you might possibly be thrown by > the fact that WCN3990 is packaged in a module provided by other vendors, > so it might be labeled by that vendor on the schematic, not by the > Qualcomm WCN3990 name. Thanks! > > > there's something in the SoC, and there's something outside the SoC, and > > these two things are connected by having two nodes and a phandle between > > them? > > Why phandle? Under what bus would you place the WCN3990? As per my > description above, there is really no way to talk to it directly. So if > anything, it seems like it would be a subnode of the node we're > describing here. I'm not tied to having a phandle at all. I'm mostly trying to make the following distinction in DT. If a node is under the soc node, it has a reg property and represents a hardware block inside the SoC. Any regulators or clocks that the node uses should also either be provided inside the SoC, or be pins on the SoC that the device can be connected to. Otherwise, if those regulators aren't going to pins for the SoC, then it means we have a mash-up of two devices in one place in the DT hierarchy. This is what doesn't look proper to me, and it's why we would want to split the node into two nodes, the SoC part and the module part for the off-SoC WCN chip. And yes, from what you've told me here it would make sense to make the WCN chip a subnode of this SoC node instead of a phandle connecting the two. > > In favor of your separation though: there are many ways to utilize > WCN3990 apparently, and I'd imagine the binding might change a bit > depending on the SoC (e.g., different clocks?). So there might be value > in describing the SDM{835,845,...whatever}-wifi-soc-components vs. > external WCN3990. Additionally, I don't know if it's even possible to > utilize a different RF module with the same SoC (is there a possibility > of a, e.g., WCN3991 that can use the same SoC logic?). Sure. Does it matter though? Even one-off solutions would be better off if we described what's going on at the board-level so that it isn't confusing to readers of the schematic and the dts file. Plus, it would allow the module creator to deliver a dts file for the module without having to involve the SoC bits and clearly split things so that the SoC dts file can be written without board assumptions. > > But I'm still not totally convinced that splitting this up really makes > much sense. Is there other precedent for splitting out a separate node > for something that we don't talk to at all (no digital interface)? Or do > we just need a more accurate compatible property, that describes the > fact that this is a SDM845+WCN3990 combination? The only thing that > software would ever do with the separate node is look it up to find the > regulators to power it on. > Agreed, it may seem like overkill, but I'll argue that this part allows us to easily see where the division of clocks and regulators is, instead of having to mentally untangle the external module from the internal SoC bits. I started to compare the AHB and the SNOC bus types in the ath10k driver but then I decided they were just a little bit different from each other to where this split wouldn't help that code. So like you say, if in the future the same SNOC hardware block will be used with a different WCN chip that has different clock and power requirements it would be very easy to integrate that by writing a new sub-device node and driver and doing this split. I admit that there would be some new work in the ath10k driver to support sub-device drivers that the bus layer communicates with and it may conflict with the way the PCI designs are implemented, but I would still argue this is better from a DT implementer perspective because we can see what things are on the board and what things are in the SoC.
Hi Stephen, On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 08:33:02AM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote: > Quoting Brian Norris (2018-11-02 11:43:17) > > Hi Stephen and Govind, > > > > I was chatting with Govind, and he seemed to be a bit stalled on this. > > I'd encourage him to reply with whatever knowledge he has, because it's > > a bit hard to give definitive answers when I don't know all the inner > > workings here. (In fact, you, Stephen, probably know more than me about > > how Qualcomm MSM chips work.) > > > > First of all, I'll explain the limited bits I do know, and see how they > > fit in below. I may be wrong. > > > > WCN3990 is an external module, for supporting BT and Wifi RF components. > > It has a host interface for the Wifi, but it's not something the host > > knows how to talk to directly at all -- it's an "Analog IQ" interface, > > between an internal SoC MAC and PHY processor. Instead, we talk to this > > module via the System NOC (?). So while there are basically 2 distinct > > hardware components (on-SoC coprocessors, various internal communication > > buses, various shared memory regions, etc.; and the external WCN3990 > > module), there is almost no way for the main processor to "talk" to the > > WCN3990 directly. > > > > Another data point to throw into the mix: WCN3990 can apparently be used > > on multiple different SoCs -- I see public announcments about SDM835 > > (and 660?), and I'm currently playing with it on SDM845. So perhaps > > there is some value in understanding "WCN3990" as being distinct from > > "WiFi MAC/PHY hardware and communication logic found on a MSM SoC." But > > they do seem to be very tightly coupled... > > > > Side note: there is also a BT component on the WCN3990 module, and we > > *can* talk to that directly over UART. There's a separate binding going > > in for that, and it's a much clearer separation to divide "UART > > controller" and "BT/UART interface on WCN3990." > > Thanks for the background. I wasn't aware of much about this driver but > taking this information and skimming the driver makes my mental model > believe that the register space here is a custom I/O region in the SoC > used to read/write to the BT/WiFi chip that's outside the SoC. Similar > to i2c, SPI, or even PCI, in the way that the I/O region in the SoC is > essentially the controller that is connected to the external chip. It's > like the hardware engineers stuck the PCI hardware blob inside the SoC > and then made special pins and wires for the thing the PCI device used > to do internally. Or is that completely wrong still? I'd still say that's somewhat wrong :) There is literally a separate processor [1] within the SoC that runs a hodgepodge of firmware blobs. One of those is a Wifi firmware. We talk to the Wifi firmware through that I/O region [2] (as well as various memory-mappings we set up for DMA, etc.). These don't really translate directly into operations "on the external chip." There is also a bunch of WLAN logic (MAC / PHY hardware, including ADC/DAC conversion) that lives on the SoC, and *that* logic drives the external chip for any RF activity. The interface between the on-chip WLAN logic and the external RF modules consists of a couple of analog IQ lines and some control lines. But again, we never actually program anything from the perspective of the host CPU that looks at all like "IQ" or "RF control" commands. To fit your PCI-like analogy: the SoC contains both the PCI controller and half of the PCI device (all the brains), including all digital interfaces the host CPU actually knows how to talk to. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Hexagon [2] At least, that's how I understand it. This document is the only thing I've seen (besides their driver code) that tells me what this I/O region is ("membase" -- how nice!). It's just listed as an empty RESERVED block on the only SoC documentation I have. > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:41:29AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote: > > > Quoting Govind Singh (2018-10-10 04:52:54) > > > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt > > > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt > > > > > > @@ -55,7 +63,8 @@ Optional properties: > > > > - qcom,ath10k-pre-calibration-data : pre calibration data as an array, > > > > the length can vary between hw versions. > > > > - <supply-name>-supply: handle to the regulator device tree node > > > > - optional "supply-name" is "vdd-0.8-cx-mx". > > > > + optional "supply-name" are "vdd-0.8-cx-mx", > > > > + "vdd-1.8-xo", "vdd-1.3-rfa" and "vdd-3.3-ch0". > > > > > > Why can't the wifi firmware manage these regulators itself? > > > > In my understanding: > > At least 3 of those (all the supplies Govind is adding) are external > > pins on the RF module. Why do you assume these are something the > > firmware can control? In the schematics I'm looking at, this seems to be > > connected to a PMIC. While it's certainly possible this is something the > > Q6 processor (running modem and Wifi firmware) can control, it doesn't > > seem obvious to me that they *must* be able to. > > > > So I guess I'd say: why not represent these regulators in the device > > tree? It seems like a valid hardware description (like I said, 3 power > > rail pins on an external module). > > Agreed. I want to specify the regulators in DT. I'm mostly asking if > there is firmware that runs and can control these regulators itself. If > so, then I'm lost why that firmware can't manage these itself and let us > ignore these requirements and never specify them in DT. Presumably there > isn't firmware that can manage it? That's my presumption. But I guess someone from Qualcomm would have to give you a definitive answer here, as I'm not really an expert on Qualcomm firmware. > > Now, your *next* paragraph might have hairier points :) > > > > > And these names don't seem to match any sort of schematic or really > > > > Which names? I see these pin names on the WCN3990 datasheets I see: > > > > VDD18_IO > > VDD18_XO > > VDD33_CH0 > > VDD33_CH1 > > VDD13_RFA > > > > 3 of those match the 3 Govind is adding, and they appear to line up with > > what I see in schematics. > > Yes those three match up, but the other one, vdd-0.8-cx-mx, looks like > the CX and MX power supplies that are typical of Qualcomm designs so > maybe those regulators are used for the I/O region inside the SoC > instead of the off-SoC chip? Good point. This document already wasn't so clear, because basically everything is optional (I believe Govind is going to fix that), so it's not clear what was actually intended for use with this WCN3990 binding. But in practice, it looks like Qualcomm is trying to use this on "WCN3990", and it does end up pointing at a pin directly on the SoC. I would probably assume that's dealing with some SoC I/O region, yes. (But I don't really know for sure.) So if we're really going for splitting the "WCN3990" (external module) from the "SDM845 WLAN logic", then we have 3 regulators for the former, and 1 for the latter. > > > describe what this device is. From what I can tell, we've combined the > > > > I've described "waht the device is" above to the best of my knowledge. > > If you're just looking at schematics, you might possibly be thrown by > > the fact that WCN3990 is packaged in a module provided by other vendors, > > so it might be labeled by that vendor on the schematic, not by the > > Qualcomm WCN3990 name. > > Thanks! > > > > > > there's something in the SoC, and there's something outside the SoC, and > > > these two things are connected by having two nodes and a phandle between > > > them? > > > > Why phandle? Under what bus would you place the WCN3990? As per my > > description above, there is really no way to talk to it directly. So if > > anything, it seems like it would be a subnode of the node we're > > describing here. > > I'm not tied to having a phandle at all. I'm mostly trying to make the > following distinction in DT. If a node is under the soc node, it has a > reg property and represents a hardware block inside the SoC. Any The above (reg property) is true. > regulators or clocks that the node uses should also either be provided > inside the SoC, or be pins on the SoC that the device can be connected > to. Otherwise, if those regulators aren't going to pins for the SoC, The clocks are all for the SoC. The only piece that doesn't fit is 3 of the 4 regulators -- they appear to be for the external module, not for the SoC component. > then it means we have a mash-up of two devices in one place in the DT > hierarchy. This is what doesn't look proper to me, and it's why we would > want to split the node into two nodes, the SoC part and the module part > for the off-SoC WCN chip. > > And yes, from what you've told me here it would make sense to make the > WCN chip a subnode of this SoC node instead of a phandle connecting the > two. I could begrudgingly agree with that. > > In favor of your separation though: there are many ways to utilize > > WCN3990 apparently, and I'd imagine the binding might change a bit > > depending on the SoC (e.g., different clocks?). So there might be value > > in describing the SDM{835,845,...whatever}-wifi-soc-components vs. > > external WCN3990. Additionally, I don't know if it's even possible to > > utilize a different RF module with the same SoC (is there a possibility > > of a, e.g., WCN3991 that can use the same SoC logic?). > > Sure. Does it matter though? Even one-off solutions would be better off > if we described what's going on at the board-level so that it isn't > confusing to readers of the schematic and the dts file. I suppose it has some limited value. Side note: I don't even know what I'd call the top-level node. As of yet, everything Qualcomm has submitted for Wifi here has used the name WCN3990 (which is the name of the external RF chip) with no reference to the SoC used (I've only been testing SDM845). I don't even know how much needs to change (e.g., the Wifi firmware?) if this were to be used on SDM835 or some other SoC. Maybe we just call it "qcom,sdm845-wifi", with a "qcom,wcn3990-wifi" subnode (distinguished from "qcom,wcn3990-bt", which shows up under a UART). Like: wifi: wifi@18800000 { compatible = "qcom,sdm845-wifi"; reg = <...> clocks = <...> vdd-0.8-cx-mx-supply = <...> ... interrupts, etc. ... rf { // I don't know what to call this node. Suggestions // welcome. compatible = "qcom,wcn3990-wifi"; vdd-1.8-xo-supply = <...>; vdd-1.3-rfa-supply = <...>; vdd-3.3-ch0-supply = <...>; }; }; > Plus, it would > allow the module creator to deliver a dts file for the module without > having to involve the SoC bits and clearly split things so that the SoC > dts file can be written without board assumptions. Nice joke -- you actually think a module vendor ever looks at this stuff? :D In general, all regulator properties tend to be board-specific. So in any case, the SoC dts tends to leave the regulators out, and the board file has to know how to find the right node(s) and plug in regulators. e.g., this isn't that hard: &wifi { foo-supply = <&soc_power_rail>; bar-supply = <&external_module_power_rail>; }; And it's really not much different than: &wifi { foo-supply = <&soc_power_rail>; }; &rf { bar-supply = <&external_module_power_rail>; }; Anyway, I think that's mostly beside the point. > > But I'm still not totally convinced that splitting this up really makes > > much sense. Is there other precedent for splitting out a separate node > > for something that we don't talk to at all (no digital interface)? Or do > > we just need a more accurate compatible property, that describes the > > fact that this is a SDM845+WCN3990 combination? The only thing that > > software would ever do with the separate node is look it up to find the > > regulators to power it on. > > > > Agreed, it may seem like overkill, but I'll argue that this part allows > us to easily see where the division of clocks and regulators is, instead > of having to mentally untangle the external module from the internal SoC > bits. I started to compare the AHB and the SNOC bus types in the ath10k > driver but then I decided they were just a little bit different from > each other to where this split wouldn't help that code. Yeah...I tried to look into some schematics for some of the Google Wifi devices that use that driver, for comparison. It actually appears to me like the IPQ4019 SoC is even more highly-integrated -- the only external components are some Front-End Modules (?), which do little more than some amplification, and RX/TX switching. You can find some basic product info for one of these under the Skyworks SKY85717 name. In practice, we don't even really have a separate regulator for them (they just run off one of the main system power rails), and there is zero software interface to them. So in that case, the IPQ4019 / AHB stuff is really an "all-in-one" SoC component, in my understanding. *Maybe* we could split out some description of the FEM if it really had a set of regulators we needed to describe. But that seems like overkill. > So like you say, if in the future the same SNOC hardware block will be > used with a different WCN chip that has different clock and power > requirements it would be very easy to integrate that by writing a new > sub-device node and driver and doing this split. I admit that there > would be some new work in the ath10k driver to support sub-device > drivers that the bus layer communicates with and it may conflict with > the way the PCI designs are implemented, but I would still argue this is > better from a DT implementer perspective because we can see what things > are on the board and what things are in the SoC. If we were to split out a subnode, I doubt we'd actually make a sub-device and driver -- we'd just have the top-level device look down into its sub-node to pull out the tiny bits (a few regulators and maybe a 'compatible' property) that it needs. But then, DT is not supposed to describe drivers (haha), so that shouldn't be relevant here. Brian
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 04:07:01PM -0800, Brian Norris wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 08:33:02AM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote: > > And yes, from what you've told me here it would make sense to make the > > WCN chip a subnode of this SoC node instead of a phandle connecting the > > two. > > I could begrudgingly agree with that. ... > > wifi: wifi@18800000 { > compatible = "qcom,sdm845-wifi"; > reg = <...> > clocks = <...> > vdd-0.8-cx-mx-supply = <...> > ... interrupts, etc. ... > > rf { // I don't know what to call this node. Suggestions > // welcome. > compatible = "qcom,wcn3990-wifi"; > vdd-1.8-xo-supply = <...>; > vdd-1.3-rfa-supply = <...>; > vdd-3.3-ch0-supply = <...>; > }; > }; By the way...I realize one reason why I've been "begrudging" on this: the single-node binding was already reviewed and merged upstream as of v4.18: ae316c4cbba2 dt: bindings: add bindings for wcn3990 wifi block It seems like a lot of needless churn to rewrite the entire binding, only to * make the usage of these regulators a little clearer and * possibly help distinguish different variants of WCN3990 usage (e.g., on different SoCs) -- I don't even know how different "WCN3990" looks when used on something non-SDM845. Even if the second bullet point is important, we could fix this by a more judicious use of 'compatible', rather than inventing whole new nodes. Regards, Brian
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt index 7fd4e8c..f831bb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt @@ -37,12 +37,20 @@ Optional properties: - clocks: List of clock specifiers, must contain an entry for each required entry in clock-names. - clock-names: Should contain the clock names "wifi_wcss_cmd", "wifi_wcss_ref", - "wifi_wcss_rtc". -- interrupts: List of interrupt lines. Must contain an entry - for each entry in the interrupt-names property. + "wifi_wcss_rtc" for "qcom,ipq4019-wifi" compatible target and + "cxo_ref_clk_pin", "smmu_aggre2_noc_clk" for "qcom,wcn3990-wifi" + compatible target. +- interrupts: reference to the list of 17 interrupt no's for "qcom,ipq4019-wifi" + compatible target. + reference to the list of 12 interrupt no's for "qcom,wcn3990-wifi" + compatible target. + Must contain interrupt-names property per entry for + "qcom,ath10k", "qcom,ipq4019-wifi" compatible targets. + - interrupt-names: Must include the entries for MSI interrupt names ("msi0" to "msi15") and legacy interrupt - name ("legacy"), + name ("legacy") for "qcom,ath10k", "qcom,ipq4019-wifi" + compatible targets. - qcom,msi_addr: MSI interrupt address. - qcom,msi_base: Base value to add before writing MSI data into MSI address register. @@ -55,7 +63,8 @@ Optional properties: - qcom,ath10k-pre-calibration-data : pre calibration data as an array, the length can vary between hw versions. - <supply-name>-supply: handle to the regulator device tree node - optional "supply-name" is "vdd-0.8-cx-mx". + optional "supply-name" are "vdd-0.8-cx-mx", + "vdd-1.8-xo", "vdd-1.3-rfa" and "vdd-3.3-ch0". Example (to supply the calibration data alone): @@ -133,8 +142,10 @@ wifi@18000000 { compatible = "qcom,wcn3990-wifi"; reg = <0x18800000 0x800000>; reg-names = "membase"; - clocks = <&clock_gcc clk_aggre2_noc_clk>; - clock-names = "smmu_aggre2_noc_clk" + clocks = <&clock_gcc clk_aggre2_noc_clk>, + <&clock_gcc clk_rf_clk2_pin>; + clock-names = "smmu_aggre2_noc_clk", + "cxo_ref_clk_pin"; interrupts = <0 130 0 /* CE0 */ >, <0 131 0 /* CE1 */ >, @@ -149,4 +160,7 @@ wifi@18000000 { <0 140 0 /* CE10 */ >, <0 141 0 /* CE11 */ >; vdd-0.8-cx-mx-supply = <&pm8998_l5>; + vdd-1.8-xo-supply = <&vreg_l7a_1p8>; + vdd-1.3-rfa-supply = <&vreg_l17a_1p3>; + vdd-3.3-ch0-supply = <&vreg_l25a_3p3>; };
Add missing optional properties in WCN3990 wifi node. Signed-off-by: Govind Singh <govinds@codeaurora.org> --- .../bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)