Re: [PATCH 1/6] arm64: dts: ti: k3-am65: Remove UART baud rate selection

[Andrew Davis]

On 3/26/24 3:21 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> On 13:54-20240326, Andrew Davis wrote:
> > As described in the binding document for the "current-speed" property:
> >
> > "This should only be present in case a driver has no chance to know the
> > baud rate of the slave device."
> >
> > This is not the case for the UART used in K3 devices, the current
> > baud-rate can be calculated from the registers. Having this property
>
> I do not understand the explanation above -> how does one do this?
> If you are talking of the 8250 divider registers, someone has to program
> those - how do you compute the baud rate from registers that aren't
> programmed? Note: I am not commenting on the rationale of removing the
> property, just trying to understand the assertion above.

This divider register, when "unprogrammed", has a default value. When one
wants to use a TTY/serial device they pick the baud-rate(stty, termios, etc.),
that then programs the register with the value they selected.

As stated below, this property does not program that register, it only
tells the driver what it should have already been set to. Some drivers
need this as they do not have a way to know what the divider is actually
set to.

Setting this in our case is wrong for two reasons:
1) Our driver can and does just check the divider itself.
2) We do not setup most of these UARTs before the kernel starts, so
   if our driver *did* care about this property it would not reflect
   the actual divider value (which is unprogrammed at this point).

Andrew

> > has the effect of actually skipping the baud-rate setup in some drivers
> > as it assumes it will already be set to this rate, which may not always
> > be the case.
> >
> > It seems this property's purpose was mistaken as selecting the desired
> > baud-rate, which it does not. It would have been wrong to select that
> > here anyway as DT is not the place for configuration, especially when
> > there are already more standard ways to set serial baud-rates.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Davis <afd@xxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-main.dtsi   | 1 -
> >   arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-mcu.dtsi    | 1 -
> >   arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-wakeup.dtsi | 1 -
> >   3 files changed, 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-main.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-main.dtsi
> > index ff857117d7193..670557c89f756 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-main.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-main.dtsi
> > @@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ main_uart0: serial@2800000 {
> >   		reg = <0x00 0x02800000 0x00 0x100>;
> >   		interrupts = <GIC_SPI 192 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> >   		clock-frequency = <48000000>;
> > -		current-speed = <115200>;
> >   		power-domains = <&k3_pds 146 TI_SCI_PD_EXCLUSIVE>;
> >   		status = "disabled";
> >   	};
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-mcu.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-mcu.dtsi
> > index 6ff3ccc39fb44..4f808e5089755 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-mcu.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-mcu.dtsi
> > @@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ mcu_uart0: serial@40a00000 {
> >   		reg = <0x00 0x40a00000 0x00 0x100>;
> >   		interrupts = <GIC_SPI 565 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> >   		clock-frequency = <96000000>;
> > -		current-speed = <115200>;
> >   		power-domains = <&k3_pds 149 TI_SCI_PD_EXCLUSIVE>;
> >   		status = "disabled";
> >   	};
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-wakeup.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-wakeup.dtsi
> > index 37527890ddeaf..eee072e44a42f 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-wakeup.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-wakeup.dtsi
> > @@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ wkup_uart0: serial@42300000 {
> >   		reg = <0x42300000 0x100>;
> >   		interrupts = <GIC_SPI 697 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> >   		clock-frequency = <48000000>;
> > -		current-speed = <115200>;
> >   		power-domains = <&k3_pds 150 TI_SCI_PD_EXCLUSIVE>;
> >   		status = "disabled";
> >   	};
> > --
> > 2.39.2