[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/3] Tegra114: fdt: Update DT files with I2C info for T114/Dalmore

Tom Warren twarren.nvidia at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 20:07:38 CET 2013


Stephen,

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 02/12/2013 10:40 AM, Tom Warren wrote:
>> Laxman,
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan at nvidia.com> wrote:
>>> On Friday 08 February 2013 11:34 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 02/08/2013 10:25 AM, Tom Warren wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> T114, like T30, does not have a separate/different DVC (power I2C)
>>>>> controller like T20 - all 5 I2C controllers are identical, but
>>>>> I2C5 is used to designate the controller intended for power
>>>>> control (PWR_I2C in the schematics). PWR_I2C is set to 400KHz.
>>>>> diff --git a/board/nvidia/dts/tegra114-dalmore.dts
>>>>> b/board/nvidia/dts/tegra114-dalmore.dts
>>>>> +       aliases {
>>>>> +       };
>>>>> +
>>>>
>>>> There's no point adding an empty aliases node here. Feel free to fix
>>>> that up when you apply it rather than reposting if you want.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like too see Laxman sign-off on the "*2" question he had earlier
>>>> before actually checking this in.
>>>>
>>> We do not require *2 as the i2c clock divider is DIVU16 type. There was bug
>>> in early code on kernel also which we fixed in dowstream long back. Possibly
>>> uboot have not fixed this yet.
>>
>> Yeah, the Tegra I2C driver in U-Boot has always doubled the rate
>> before calling the clock set routine.
>
> Perhaps it's related to some dividers being U7.1 (i.e. the LSB of the
> divider represents 1/2 not 1)? However, as Laxman points out, this isn't
> the case for I2C clocks; they have a U16 divider, so the LSB represents
> 1 not 1/2.
>
>> But the important thing is that
>> the actual I2C clock is 100KHz (or 400KHz for I2C5) as measured at the
>> test points on the board.
>>
>> I'll look into the Tegra U-Boot clock routine idiosyncrasies later
>> when I get some more bandwidth.
>
> Just a few minutes of investigation points at clk_get_divider() being buggy.
>
> It assumes that all dividers have a built-in *2 clock multiplier on the
> front of them:
>
>         u64 divider = parent_rate * 2;
>
> (the name for that variable is wrong; it should be something more like
> parent_rate or divider_input_rate)
>
> This (presence of a *2 pre-multiplier) is true for U7.1 dividers, since
> this is required for the LSB of the divider to represent 1/2 not 1.
> Hence, I assume that e.g. the SPI driver doesn't do this "* 2" on the
> clock rate; it actually has a U7.1 divider.
>
> However, this is not true for U16 dividers, since the HW doesn't need to
> multiply up the rate before dividing, since the LSB is 1 not 1/2.
>
> The solution here is to fix clk_get_divider() to return both a field
> width and a flag (or width) indicating whether a fractional part of the
> divider is present, and then pass that on to adjust_periph_pll() so that
> it can only optionally perform this initial "* 2".
>
> So at least that explains it.
Yeah, I just started looking at it before lunch, and saw the same thing.

I'll see about fixing it now so I can put the T114 I2C patches to bed.

Thanks
>
> I would strongly recommend just fixing this now. However, if you don't
> please do file a bug so that we don't forget about this.


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