[PATCH v1 1/2] clk: socfpga: Read the clock parent's register base in probe function

[Marek Vasut]

On 4/2/20 9:49 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Marek,
> 
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 13:45, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/2/20 8:50 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>>>>>>>> I suspect we could change this, so that
>>>>>>>>>> device_ofdata_to_platdata() first calls itself on its parent.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I can think of various reasons why this change might be desirable.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I think this is how it worked before already.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Well effectively, yes, because ofdata and probe were joined together.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Simon, do you have plan to fix this DM core issue ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not sure it definitely should be changed. But I'll do a patch and
>>>>>> see how it looks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do I understand it correctly that the patch
>>>>> 82de42fa14682d408da935adfb0f935354c5008f actually completely breaks
>>>>> SoCFPGA ? Then I would say this is a release blocker ?
>>>> Yes. A10 SPL won't boot at all. It crashes during the clock manager setup.
>>>
>>> This came in right at the beginning of the cycle. I thought the
>>> purpose of the 3-month cycle was to allow time to test?
>>
>> It was ... altera ?
>>
>>> I do plan to try out changing the behaviour to read a parent's ofdata
>>> before the child, but I am not comfortable adding such a major change
>>> just before a release. It could have any number of ill effects.
>>>
>>> Can you update the clock driver? E.g. you could move some of the code
>>> from socfpga_a10_ofdata_to_platdata() to a probe() method?
>>
>> Can we revert the patch which broke arria10 instead ? It did work
>> before, so who knows how many other ill side effects there are ...
> 
> No, sorry, we need to fix Altera. Other boards have fixed driver bugs
> exposed by the patch.

How is altera broken again ? It used to work fine.

> BTW what is a good Altera board to get that doesn't cost too much?

With arria10 ? I think there's only one, the a10 socdk ...