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[V2,0/4] Add i.MX8QXP system controller watchdog support

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Anson Huang Feb. 18, 2019, 2:01 a.m. UTC
i.MX8QXP is an ARMv8 Cortex-A35 SoC with a Cortex-M4 system controller inside,
the system controller manages overall power, clock, secure RTC and watchdog
etc., so Linux kernel running on A35 needs to communicate with system
controller for watchdog operation, this system controller watchdog will
call SMC to trap to EL3 secure world ARM-Trusted-Firmware and then it will
request system controller to do the watchdog operation via IPC.

Below are the patch dependency:

The dt-binding and imx8qxp.dtsi patch are based on my thermal patch series as below:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10800699/

Anson Huang (4):
  dt-bindings: fsl: scu: add watchdog binding
  watchdog: imx_sc: Add i.MX system controller watchdog support
  arm64: defconfig: add support for i.MX system controller watchdog
  arm64: dts: freescale: imx8qxp: add watchdog support

 .../devicetree/bindings/arm/freescale/fsl,scu.txt  |  10 +
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8qxp.dtsi         |   4 +
 arch/arm64/configs/defconfig                       |   1 +
 drivers/watchdog/Kconfig                           |  13 ++
 drivers/watchdog/Makefile                          |   1 +
 drivers/watchdog/imx_sc_wdt.c                      | 210 +++++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 239 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/watchdog/imx_sc_wdt.c

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Guenter Roeck Feb. 18, 2019, 5:16 a.m. UTC | #1
On 2/17/19 6:01 PM, Anson Huang wrote:
> i.MX8QXP is an ARMv8 Cortex-A35 SoC with a Cortex-M4 system controller inside,
> the system controller manages overall power, clock, secure RTC and watchdog
> etc., so Linux kernel running on A35 needs to communicate with system
> controller for watchdog operation, this system controller watchdog will
> call SMC to trap to EL3 secure world ARM-Trusted-Firmware and then it will
> request system controller to do the watchdog operation via IPC.
> 
> 
And you expect I'll spend the time comparing this version of the patch
series against version 1 and figure out myself what exactly changed ?

Guenter

Below are the patch dependency:
> 
> The dt-binding and imx8qxp.dtsi patch are based on my thermal patch series as below:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10800699/
> 
> Anson Huang (4):
>    dt-bindings: fsl: scu: add watchdog binding
>    watchdog: imx_sc: Add i.MX system controller watchdog support
>    arm64: defconfig: add support for i.MX system controller watchdog
>    arm64: dts: freescale: imx8qxp: add watchdog support
> 
>   .../devicetree/bindings/arm/freescale/fsl,scu.txt  |  10 +
>   arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8qxp.dtsi         |   4 +
>   arch/arm64/configs/defconfig                       |   1 +
>   drivers/watchdog/Kconfig                           |  13 ++
>   drivers/watchdog/Makefile                          |   1 +
>   drivers/watchdog/imx_sc_wdt.c                      | 210 +++++++++++++++++++++
>   6 files changed, 239 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 drivers/watchdog/imx_sc_wdt.c
>
Anson Huang Feb. 18, 2019, 6:11 a.m. UTC | #2
Hi, Guenter

Best Regards!
Anson Huang

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guenter Roeck [mailto:groeck7@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Guenter
> Roeck
> Sent: 2019年2月18日 13:16
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] Add i.MX8QXP system controller watchdog
> support
> 
> On 2/17/19 6:01 PM, Anson Huang wrote:
> > i.MX8QXP is an ARMv8 Cortex-A35 SoC with a Cortex-M4 system controller
> > inside, the system controller manages overall power, clock, secure RTC
> > and watchdog etc., so Linux kernel running on A35 needs to communicate
> > with system controller for watchdog operation, this system controller
> > watchdog will call SMC to trap to EL3 secure world
> > ARM-Trusted-Firmware and then it will request system controller to do the
> watchdog operation via IPC.
> >
> >
> And you expect I'll spend the time comparing this version of the patch series
> against version 1 and figure out myself what exactly changed ?
> 
> Guenter

Sorry, I planned to reply your review mail but forgot, I addressed all your comments
in V2 patch set, I will add the change log in V2 watchdog driver patch and resend.

Anson.

> 
> Below are the patch dependency:
> >
> > The dt-binding and imx8qxp.dtsi patch are based on my thermal patch
> series as below:
> >
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpat
> >
> chwork.kernel.org%2Fpatch%2F10800699%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Canso
> n.huang
> > %40nxp.com%7C630e6c5d7ed04a912f7708d695603cb2%7C686ea1d3bc2b4
> c6fa92cd9
> >
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> 2a9Ey77U
> > gTNKAGCQ8IWRcUKb4G0lK%2Bkjc%3D&amp;reserved=0
> >
> > Anson Huang (4):
> >    dt-bindings: fsl: scu: add watchdog binding
> >    watchdog: imx_sc: Add i.MX system controller watchdog support
> >    arm64: defconfig: add support for i.MX system controller watchdog
> >    arm64: dts: freescale: imx8qxp: add watchdog support
> >
> >   .../devicetree/bindings/arm/freescale/fsl,scu.txt  |  10 +
> >   arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8qxp.dtsi         |   4 +
> >   arch/arm64/configs/defconfig                       |   1 +
> >   drivers/watchdog/Kconfig                           |  13 ++
> >   drivers/watchdog/Makefile                          |   1 +
> >   drivers/watchdog/imx_sc_wdt.c                      | 210
> +++++++++++++++++++++
> >   6 files changed, 239 insertions(+)
> >   create mode 100644 drivers/watchdog/imx_sc_wdt.c
> >