RE: [PATCH] pinctrl: scmi: support i.MX OEM pin configuration type

[Peng Fan]

Hi Linus,

Sorry for late reply.

> Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: scmi: support i.MX OEM pin configuration type
> 
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 8:07 AM Peng Fan (OSS) <peng.fan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > i.MX95 System Manager FW supports SCMI PINCTRL protocol, but uses
> OEM
> > Pin Configuration type, so extend the driver to support custom params.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>
> 
> I can't really say much about this as pinctrl maintainer other than that it
> makes me a bit unhappy that i.MX95 is not using the "default"
> SCMI pinctrl bindings.

Sorry about that. I check with our SCMI firmware owner, we could
not afford the memory size, it would require a massive amount of
data in arrays to match pins with functions and then figure out the
mux value for that pin
> 
> If the spec allows for this, and NXP Freescale is using it, I will just have to
> accept it.

In the spec, Table 24 Pin Configuration Type and Enumerations, 192 -255
is for OEM specific units

> 
> It feels like that's the old NXP Freescale pin controller living on just hidden
> behind SCMI, so potentially it should also share code with the old i.MX pin
> controller driver. But I think you wrote part of that driver so you would be the
> best to ask about that in any case I think?

The scmi imx extension code not able to share code with the non-scmi code,
The scmi protocol requires config type and config value, so we need new
way to pack the data.

Thanks,
Peng.
 
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij