[PATCH v3 5/7] thermal: pmbus: add PMBus die-temp driver
Vincent Jardin
vjardin at free.fr
Mon Jul 6 12:50:56 CEST 2026
The driver is a thin UCLASS_THERMAL: its get_temp reads the
temperature of its parent regulator through the pmbus helper
(READ_TEMPERATURE_1), without any chip-specific code.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Jardin <vjardin at free.fr>
---
(no changes since v1)
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
drivers/thermal/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++
drivers/thermal/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/thermal/pmbus_thermal.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 drivers/thermal/pmbus_thermal.c
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 5ba9b195c0b..9efc137eb1d 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1589,6 +1589,7 @@ F: drivers/power/regulator/mpq8785.c
F: drivers/power/regulator/pmbus_generic.c
F: drivers/power/regulator/pmbus_helper.c
F: drivers/power/regulator/pmbus_helper.h
+F: drivers/thermal/pmbus_thermal.c
F: include/pmbus.h
F: lib/pmbus.c
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
index 91c39aa4dee..30bb64ce895 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
@@ -55,4 +55,12 @@ config TI_LM74_THERMAL
Enable thermal support for the Texas Instruments LM74 chip.
The driver supports reading CPU temperature.
+config PMBUS_THERMAL
+ bool "Generic PMBus temperature"
+ depends on DM_REGULATOR_PMBUS_HELPER
+ help
+ Expose the die-temperature reading of any PMBus voltage
+ regulator bound by a pmbus_helper based chip driver
+ as a UCLASS_THERMAL device.
+
endif # if DM_THERMAL
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/Makefile b/drivers/thermal/Makefile
index b6f06c00ed9..25435f43b64 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/thermal/Makefile
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_RCAR_GEN3_THERMAL) += rcar_gen3_thermal.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SANDBOX) += thermal_sandbox.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TI_DRA7_THERMAL) += ti-bandgap.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TI_LM74_THERMAL) += ti-lm74.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_PMBUS_THERMAL) += pmbus_thermal.o
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/pmbus_thermal.c b/drivers/thermal/pmbus_thermal.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c251cea8ddf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/thermal/pmbus_thermal.c
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+/*
+ * Copyright 2026 Free Mobile - Vincent Jardin
+ *
+ * Generic UCLASS_THERMAL companion for PMBus voltage regulators.
+ *
+ * Works with any chip bound by a pmbus_helper based regulator driver
+ * (drivers/power/regulator/<chip>.c calling
+ * pmbus_regulator_probe_common()). It auto-spawns one
+ * of these thermal devices per regulator.
+ *
+ * The reading is the chip's READ_TEMPERATURE_1 (PMBus 0x8D), decoded
+ * through the parent's pmbus_driver_info.
+ */
+
+#include <dm.h>
+#include <pmbus.h>
+#include <thermal.h>
+
+static int pmbus_thermal_get_temp(struct udevice *dev, int *temp)
+{
+ return pmbus_regulator_read_temp(dev_get_parent(dev), temp);
+}
+
+static const struct dm_thermal_ops pmbus_thermal_ops = {
+ .get_temp = pmbus_thermal_get_temp,
+};
+
+U_BOOT_DRIVER(pmbus_thermal) = {
+ .name = "pmbus_thermal",
+ .id = UCLASS_THERMAL,
+ .ops = &pmbus_thermal_ops,
+};
--
2.43.0
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