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| Linux kernel SLIMbus support |
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| Overview |
| ======== |
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| What is SLIMbus? |
| ---------------- |
| SLIMbus (Serial Low Power Interchip Media Bus) is a specification developed by |
| MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) alliance. The bus uses master/slave |
| configuration, and is a 2-wire multi-drop implementation (clock, and data). |
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| Currently, SLIMbus is used to interface between application processors of SoCs |
| (System-on-Chip) and peripheral components (typically codec). SLIMbus uses |
| Time-Division-Multiplexing to accommodate multiple data channels, and |
| a control channel. |
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| The control channel is used for various control functions such as bus |
| management, configuration and status updates. These messages can be unicast (e.g. |
| reading/writing device specific values), or multicast (e.g. data channel |
| reconfiguration sequence is a broadcast message announced to all devices) |
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| A data channel is used for data-transfer between 2 SLIMbus devices. Data |
| channel uses dedicated ports on the device. |
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| Hardware description: |
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| SLIMbus specification has different types of device classifications based on |
| their capabilities. |
| A manager device is responsible for enumeration, configuration, and dynamic |
| channel allocation. Every bus has 1 active manager. |
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| A generic device is a device providing application functionality (e.g. codec). |
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| Framer device is responsible for clocking the bus, and transmitting frame-sync |
| and framing information on the bus. |
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| Each SLIMbus component has an interface device for monitoring physical layer. |
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| Typically each SoC contains SLIMbus component having 1 manager, 1 framer device, |
| 1 generic device (for data channel support), and 1 interface device. |
| External peripheral SLIMbus component usually has 1 generic device (for |
| functionality/data channel support), and an associated interface device. |
| The generic device's registers are mapped as 'value elements' so that they can |
| be written/read using SLIMbus control channel exchanging control/status type of |
| information. |
| In case there are multiple framer devices on the same bus, manager device is |
| responsible to select the active-framer for clocking the bus. |
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| Per specification, SLIMbus uses "clock gears" to do power management based on |
| current frequency and bandwidth requirements. There are 10 clock gears and each |
| gear changes the SLIMbus frequency to be twice its previous gear. |
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| Each device has a 6-byte enumeration-address and the manager assigns every |
| device with a 1-byte logical address after the devices report presence on the |
| bus. |
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| Software description: |
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| There are 2 types of SLIMbus drivers: |
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| slim_controller represents a 'controller' for SLIMbus. This driver should |
| implement duties needed by the SoC (manager device, associated |
| interface device for monitoring the layers and reporting errors, default |
| framer device). |
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| slim_device represents the 'generic device/component' for SLIMbus, and a |
| slim_driver should implement driver for that slim_device. |
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| Device notifications to the driver: |
| ----------------------------------- |
| Since SLIMbus devices have mechanisms for reporting their presence, the |
| framework allows drivers to bind when corresponding devices report their |
| presence on the bus. |
| However, it is possible that the driver needs to be probed |
| first so that it can enable corresponding SLIMbus device (e.g. power it up and/or |
| take it out of reset). To support that behavior, the framework allows drivers |
| to probe first as well (e.g. using standard DeviceTree compatibility field). |
| This creates the necessity for the driver to know when the device is functional |
| (i.e. reported present). device_up callback is used for that reason when the |
| device reports present and is assigned a logical address by the controller. |
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| Similarly, SLIMbus devices 'report absent' when they go down. A 'device_down' |
| callback notifies the driver when the device reports absent and its logical |
| address assignment is invalidated by the controller. |
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| Another notification "boot_device" is used to notify the slim_driver when |
| controller resets the bus. This notification allows the driver to take necessary |
| steps to boot the device so that it's functional after the bus has been reset. |
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| Driver and Controller APIs: |
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| .. kernel-doc:: include/linux/slimbus.h |
| :internal: |
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| .. kernel-doc:: drivers/slimbus/slimbus.h |
| :internal: |
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| .. kernel-doc:: drivers/slimbus/core.c |
| :export: |
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| Clock-pause: |
| ------------ |
| SLIMbus mandates that a reconfiguration sequence (known as clock-pause) be |
| broadcast to all active devices on the bus before the bus can enter low-power |
| mode. Controller uses this sequence when it decides to enter low-power mode so |
| that corresponding clocks and/or power-rails can be turned off to save power. |
| Clock-pause is exited by waking up framer device (if controller driver initiates |
| exiting low power mode), or by toggling the data line (if a slave device wants |
| to initiate it). |
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| Clock-pause APIs: |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| .. kernel-doc:: drivers/slimbus/sched.c |
| :export: |
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| Messaging: |
| ---------- |
| The framework supports regmap and read/write apis to exchange control-information |
| with a SLIMbus device. APIs can be synchronous or asynchronous. |
| The header file <linux/slimbus.h> has more documentation about messaging APIs. |
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| Messaging APIs: |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| .. kernel-doc:: drivers/slimbus/messaging.c |
| :export: |