[U-Boot] Issues with driver binding and probing

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Thu Sep 26 03:40:48 UTC 2019


+Simon

Hi Aaron,

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:10 AM Aaron Williams <awilliams at marvell.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have an issue where I have a nexus driver and a sub serial driver on top of
> it. The base nexus driver is getting bound and probed properly, however the
> serial drivers (pci-console) below it are not.
>
> My device tree looks something like this:
>
>         pci-console-nexus at 0x03000000 {
>                 /* Remote PCI console buffer location */
>                 compatible = "marvell,pci-console-nexus";

Is this a PCI controller node?

>                 status = "okay";
>                 #address-cells = <2>;
>                 #size-cells = <1>;
>                 skip-init;
>                 num-consoles = <8>;
>                 reg = <0 0x03000000 0 0x40000>;
>                 ranges = <0 0 0 0x3000100 0x4000>,
>                          <1 0 0 0x3004100 0x4000>,
>                          <2 0 0 0x3008100 0x4000>,
>                          <3 0 0 0x300c100 0x4000>,
>                          <4 0 0 0x3010100 0x4000>,
>                          <5 0 0 0x3014100 0x4000>,
>                          <6 0 0 0x3018100 0x4000>,
>                          <7 0 0 0x301c100 0x4000>;
>                 console at 0 {
>                         compatible = "marvell,pci-console";

If this is a PCI device, it can be handled by the PCI codes.

>                         status = "okay";
>                         reg = <0 0 0x4000>;
>                         tx-buffer-size = <0x2f80>;
>                         rx-buffer-size = <0x1000>;
>                 };
> ...
>                 console at 7 {
>                         compatible = "marvell,pci-console";
>                         status = "okay";
>                         reg = <7 0 0x4000>;
>                         tx-buffer-size = <0x2f80>;
>                         rx-buffer-size = <0x1000>;
>                 };
>         };
>
> When U-Boot binds the drivers it sees and binds pci-console-nexus but it never
> even attempts to go any deeper in the device tree. Both drivers are used. The
> nexus datastructure is a shared resouce that can be used by ATF.
>
> I added a bind function in the nexus driver that basically does:
>         dev_for_each_subnode(node, parent) {
>                 ret = device_bind_driver_to_node(parent, DRIVER_NAME,
>                                 ofnode_get_name(node), node,
>                                 &dev);
>                 get_uclass(UCLASS_SERIAL, &uc);
>                 dev->uclass = uic;
>         }
>
> With this I see the consoles in the dm tree and uclass list, but the sequences
> don't seem to be getting set.
>
> What I notice when I type dm uclass is:
> uclass 60: serial
> - * serial at 87e028000000 @ 7fbeb3360, seq 0, (req 0)
> -   serial at 87e029000000 @ 7fbeb3430, seq -1, (req 1)
> -   console at 0 @ 7fbeb3660
> -   console at 1 @ 7fbeb3780
> -   console at 2 @ 7fbeb38a0
> -   console at 3 @ 7fbeb39c0
> -   console at 4 @ 7fbeb3ae0
> -   console at 5 @ 7fbeb3c00
> -   console at 6 @ 7fbeb3d20
> -   console at 7 @ 7fbeb3e40
> - * pci-bootcmd at 0x03fff000 @ 7fbeb3f60, seq 1, (req -1)
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on how I should properly handle this? It seems that
> whatever I'm doing is overly complicated and I'm missing something for the DM
> layer to not go deeper into the tree past the nexus layer.
>
> static const struct udevice_id octeontx_pcie_console_nexus_serial_id[] = {
>         { .compatible = "marvell,pci-console-nexus", },
>         { },
> };
>
> U_BOOT_DRIVER(octeontx_pcie_console_nexus) = {
>         .name = DRIVER_NAME "-nexus",
>         .id = UCLASS_MISC,
>         .flags = DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC,
>         .of_match = of_match_ptr(octeontx_pcie_console_nexus_serial_id),
>         .ofdata_to_platdata =
>                  octeontx_pcie_console_nexus_ofdata_to_platdata,
>         .platdata_auto_alloc_size =
>                 sizeof(struct octeontx_pcie_console_plat_data),
>         .bind = octeontx_pcie_console_nexus_bind,
>         .probe = octeontx_pcie_console_nexus_probe,
>         .priv_auto_alloc_size =
>                  sizeof(struct octeontx_pcie_console_nexus_priv),
> };
>
> static const struct dm_serial_ops octeontx_pcie_console_ops = {
>         .setbrg = octeontx_pcie_console_setbrg,
>         .getc = octeontx_pcie_console_getc,
>         .putc = octeontx_pcie_console_putc,
>         .pending = octeontx_pcie_console_pending,
>         .clear = octeontx_pcie_console_clear,
> };
>
> static const struct udevice_id octeontx_pcie_console_serial_id[] = {
>         { .compatible = "marvell,pci-console", },
>         { },
> };
>
> U_BOOT_DRIVER(octeontx_pcie_console) = {
>         .name = DRIVER_NAME,
>         .id = UCLASS_SERIAL,
>         .ops = &octeontx_pcie_console_ops,
>         .of_match = of_match_ptr(octeontx_pcie_console_serial_id),
>         .probe = octeontx_pcie_console_probe,
>         .ofdata_to_platdata = octeontx_pcie_console_ofdata_to_platdata,
>         .remove = octeontx_pcie_console_remove,
>         .priv_auto_alloc_size = sizeof(struct octeontx_pcie_console_priv),
>         .platdata_auto_alloc_size =
>                 sizeof(struct octeontx_pcie_console_plat_data),
>         .flags = DM_FLAG_OS_PREPARE | DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC,
> };

Regards,
Bin


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