"Karicheri, Muralidharan" <[email protected]> writes:

> We had figured that was the issue with the clock being disabled.
>
> I see vpss master, vpss slave and vpss dac clocks defined. Now vpss
> clock is required for all the vpss modules (capture, display, h3a
> etc). In VPSS we have registers for enabling clocks for each module,
> but the above clock is applicable for more than one driver. How does
> driver request clock in this case?

Each driver that uses the clock should do a clk_get() and
clk_enable().  The clock framework will track the usecounts and
disable the hw clock when the usecount goes to zero, then re-enable
the clock on the next clk_enable().

> I believe this should be enabled from the evm board setup. Right now
> I have set the flag to ALWAYS_ENABLED. Hope this is fine.

No.

You enable the clock by calling clk_get()/clk_enable().

Kevin

> Murali Karicheri
> Software Design Engineer
> Texas Instruments Inc.
> Germantown, MD 20874
> Phone : 301-515-3736
> email: [email protected]
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Kevin Hilman [mailto:[email protected]]
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 5:35 PM
>>To: Karicheri, Muralidharan
>>Cc: [email protected]
>>Subject: Re: DM355 - No vpss register write happens in the latest kernel
>>
>>"Karicheri, Muralidharan" <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>
>>> I have ported the video driver to the latest davinci git kernel and
>>> I have built a single uImage for DM355 and DM6446. The driver works
>>> fine on DM6446, but doesn't work on DM355. When I dumped the
>>> registers, none of them were being written. I tried writing manually
>>> using writel application and still I can't see the values in the
>>> registers. The architecture code has changed recently quite a lot. I
>>> have a version of the kernel that downloaded in March and this issue
>>> was not seen there. This is blocking my driver work and any help
>>> will be appreciated.
>>
>>My first guess would be that your driver doesn't enable all the
>>relevant clocks for VPSS?
>>
>>You could try without the CONFIG_DAVINCI_RESET_CLOCKS=y in
>>the config.
>>
>>If it works with that option disabled, then your driver has a bug in
>>that it is not properly requesting clocks.
>>
>>Kevin
>>

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