Question regarding clocks in the DW-HDMI DT bindings

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Philipp,

On Friday 25 Nov 2016 10:56:55 Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 24.11.2016, 23:16 +0200 schrieb Laurent Pinchart:
> > Hi Andy,
> > 
> > As the author of the DW-HDMI DT bindings this question is addressed to
> > you, but information from anyone is more than welcome.
> > 
> > The DT bindings specify two clocks named "iahb" and "isfr" but don't
> > describe them. While I assume that the "isfr" clock corresponds to the
> > "isfrclk" input signal of the DW HDMI, there is no "iahb" clock described
> > in the IP core datasheet.
> 
> The Table 33-1 "HDMI clocks" in the i.MX6DQ reference manual [1] lists
> iahbclk (AHB bus clock), icecclk (32 kHz CEC clock), ihclk (module
> clock) and isfrclk (27 MHz internal SFR clock).
> 
> [1]
> http://www.nxp.com/assets/documents/data/en/reference-manuals/IMX6DQRM.pdf
>
> > The DW HDMI IP exposes control registers through an APB, not an AHB. There
> > is a bus clock named "iapbclk", is "iahb" just an incorrect name for that
> > clock ?
>
> According to figure 33-3 "HDMI TX Top Level Block Diagram" the control
> interface is AMBA AHB on i.MX6. Both iahbclk and ihclk are clocked by
> ahb_clk_root on i.MX6.
>
> Register 5 (HDMI_CONFIG1_ID) contains a few bits (confsfrdir, confi2c,
> confocp, confapb, confahb) that indicate which control interface is
> used.

That's interesting. The DW HDMI TX documentation I found (1.40a-ea00, Early 
Adopter Edition) only has the confahb bit in that register. Do you know which 
version of the IP is used in iMX.6 ? I wonder whether the above is a 
Freescale-specific modification to the IP core.

I'm also a bit puzzled by the differences in the HDMI PHY between Freescale 
and Renesas. The Renesas datasheet documents three registers only for the PHY 
(other might exist and be undocumented), and while they contain fields similar 
to the ones documented in the Freescale datasheet, the exact register layouts 
are different.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart