[U-Boot] [U-Boot, 1/3] rockchip: boot mode: parse adc channel from dts

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Dec 2 03:29:18 UTC 2017


Hi Philipp,

On 29 November 2017 at 02:53, Dr. Philipp Tomsich
<philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com> wrote:
> [Getting Simon's email-address right, helps…]
>
> Simon,
>
> could you comment on this one from a general U-Boot architecture and
> DM-maintainer perspective?
>
> Thanks,
> Philipp.
>
> On 29 Nov 2017, at 10:50, Dr. Philipp Tomsich
> <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 29 Nov 2017, at 07:34, Andy Yan <andy.yan at rock-chips.com
> <mailto:andy.yan at rock-chips.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Philipp:
>
>
> On 2017年11月28日 21:59, Philipp Tomsich wrote:
>
> +sjg
>
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2017, Andy Yan wrote:
>
> Most the current rockchip based boards use adc channel
> 1 detect the download key, but there are also some
> boards like rv1108 based plaform use adc channel 0.
> So we parse the adc channel from dts if we can get
> it, otherwise we use the channel 1 as default.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Yan <andy.yan at rock-chips.com
> <mailto:andy.yan at rock-chips.com>>
> Acked-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com
> <mailto:philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com>>
>
> ---
>
> arch/arm/mach-rockchip/boot_mode.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/boot_mode.c
> b/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/boot_mode.c
> index 942849f..49dfd39 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/boot_mode.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/boot_mode.c
> @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
> #include <adc.h>
> #include <asm/io.h>
> #include <asm/arch/boot_mode.h>
> +#include <fdtdec.h>
> +
> +DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
>
> void set_back_to_bootrom_dnl_flag(void)
> {
> @@ -26,9 +29,19 @@ void set_back_to_bootrom_dnl_flag(void)
>
> __weak int rockchip_dnl_key_pressed(void)
> {
> +    const void *blob = gd->fdt_blob;
>    unsigned int val;
> +    int channel = 1;
> +    int node;
> +    u32 chns[2];
> +
> +    node = fdt_node_offset_by_compatible(blob, 0, "adc-keys");
> +    if (node >= 0) {
> +        if (!fdtdec_get_int_array(blob, node, "io-channels", chns, 2))
> +            channel = chns[1];
> +    }
>
>
> The driver for 'adc-keys' should be a driver in drivers/input that can then
> be retrieved via DM and queried using keyboard_getc().
>
>
>    Yes, if there is an exiting adc-keys driver, we will use it here with no
> doubts, but there is not now. I just need  to check the button
> down event once, no up or other things needed, so I call the adc api
> directly. I grep all the u-boot project, and found all other boards
> handle this kind of button status check by call device specific api
> directly, rather than use the api from input subsystem. So I think
> this is a acceptable way.
>
>
> Which other boards did you find that used the “adc-keys” node this way?
> My grep shows only a few sunxi DTS referring to it:
> ptomsich at android:~/u-boot-rockchip$ git status
> On branch master
> Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
> ptomsich at android:~/u-boot-rockchip$ git grep adc-keys
> arch/arm/dts/sun4i-a10.dtsi:                    compatible =
> "allwinner,sun4i-a10-lradc-keys";
> arch/arm/dts/sun5i-gr8.dtsi:                    compatible =
> "allwinner,sun4i-a10-lradc-keys";
> arch/arm/dts/sun5i.dtsi:                        compatible =
> "allwinner,sun4i-a10-lradc-keys";
> arch/arm/dts/sun6i-a31.dtsi:                    compatible =
> "allwinner,sun4i-a10-lradc-keys";
> arch/arm/dts/sun7i-a20.dtsi:                    compatible =
> "allwinner,sun4i-a10-lradc-keys";
> arch/arm/dts/sun8i-a23-a33.dtsi:                        compatible =
> "allwinner,sun4i-a10-lradc-keys";
>
>
>      Would you please consider taking this patch if there is no other
> problems. And when there is a adc-keys driver in the future, I can move
> it to input based api, or I will write a adc-keys driver when my workloads
> is not so heavy as now.
>
>
> The problem is that if we go ahead with this as-is, there never be a driver
> for the "adc-keys” created ...
> Let’s see what for Simon’s input is, before we make a final decision.

I agree that we should do this with a generic driver if that is what
Linux does. We should try to avoid creating migration work for the
next person.

It does not seem that hard to do?

>
>
>
> -    if (adc_channel_single_shot("saradc", 1, &val)) {
> +    if (adc_channel_single_shot("saradc", channel, &val)) {
>        pr_err("%s: adc_channel_single_shot fail!\n", __func__);
>        return false;
>    }


Regards,
Simon


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