Question regarding clocks in the DW-HDMI DT bindings

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Philipp,

On Friday 25 Nov 2016 17:08:13 Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 25.11.2016, 17:45 +0200 schrieb Laurent Pinchart:
> > 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.p
> >> df
> >> 
> >>> 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.
> 
> The driver reports:
> 
> dwhdmi-imx 120000.hdmi: Detected HDMI controller 0x13:0xa:0xa0:0xc1
> 
> That is DESIGN_ID 0x13, REVISION_ID 0x0a.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Do you mean the HDMI_PHY_* registers in the HDMI TX register space or
> the separate HDMI PHY i2c registers? The PHY may very well be completely
> different. I think OMAP5 HDMI driver uses the same DesignWare HDMI TX as
> i.MX6, but not the same PHY.

I meant the HDMI PHY I2C registers, yes. If the PHYs are really SoC-specific 
maybe we should move the supporting code to the platform glue driver.

Would anyone happen to have access to the Synopsys HDMI TX PHY documentation ?

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart