Hi Matthias,
Gentle ping about this and the other mtk-smi part in this patchset.
The memory part don't have its specific maintainer, normally we need
SoC maintain's help. Thus, For this file(memory/mtk-smi.c), your review
is needed before Joerg accept it.
Appreciate in advance.
On Tue, 2019-01-01 at 11:55 +0800, Yong Wu wrote:
> In some SoCs like mt8183, SMI add GALS(Global Async Local Sync) module
> which can help synchronize for the modules in different clock frequency.
> It can be seen as a "asynchronous fifo". This is a example diagram:
>
> M4U
> |
> ----------
> | |
> gals0-rx gals1-rx
> | |
> | |
> gals0-tx gals1-tx
> | |
> ------------
> SMI Common
> ------------
> |
> +-----+--------+-----+- ...
> | | | |
> | gals-rx gals-rx |
> | | | |
> | | | |
> | gals-tx gals-tx |
> | | | |
> larb1 larb2 larb3 larb4
>
> GALS only help transfer the command/data while it doesn't have the
> configuring register, thus it has the special "smi" clock and doesn't
> have the "apb" clock. From the diagram above, we add "gals0" and
> "gals1" clocks for smi-common and add a "gals" clock for smi-larb.
>
> This patch adds gals clock supporting in the SMI. Note that some larbs
> may still don't have the "gals" clock like larb1 and larb4 above.
>
> This is also a preparing patch for mt8183 which has GALS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yong Wu <yong...@mediatek.com>
> ---
> drivers/memory/mtk-smi.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)
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