Re: [PATCH 1/7] arm64: dts: qcom: sc8280xp: remove GCC from CX power domain

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Mon Jan 02 2023 - 03:43:37 EST


On 31/12/2022 00:41, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
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> On 30.12.2022 17:00, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> Bindings do not allow power-domain property in GCC clock controller and
>> documentation does not indicate that GCC is part of VDD_CX.
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>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>> Maybe the bindings should be fixed? Maybe this was added as workaround?
>> Anyway looking at documentation I do not see such relation, except
>> downstream vdd_cx-supply (which is the same as in other SoCs and we do
>> not represent it in upstream).
> Some clocks scale with _CX, which is annotated on downstream with vdd-levels.
> We take care of that by using opp tables in consumer drivers. Usually if
> power-domains is added to a clock controller, it means that at least one of
> the clocks needs the power domain to be on (which.. should be true for CX
> if the ARM part runs anyway, no?), as for example VDD_MX/VDD_GFX may not be
> on at boot and trying to enable such clocks would result in a big kaboom..
>
> TL;DR: if nothing exploded, it's fine to remove it

According to Bjorn, we should keep the domain.

Best regards,
Krzysztof