Re: When USB PHY framework should be used?

[Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>]

Hi,

On Monday 21 October 2013 04:49 PM, Arokux X wrote:
> Dear Kishon,
> 
> thank you for the answer, no problem it was late! Your understanding
> is almost correct.
> 
>> From whatever I could understand, you have a USB HOST controller (each HOST
>> controller has an EHCI controller and a companion OHCI controller?). There are
>> separate clocks for each of EHCI and OHCI controller. EHCI and OHCI has
>> separate PHYs. Both these PHYs are fed by the same common clock. And you have a
>> separate reset bits for each of the PHYs.
> 
> EHCI and OHCI have the same PHY. And this PHY has a reset bit. This is
> exactly what bothers me. Because there should be something central to
> both EHCI and OHCI which manages this reset bit, i.e. the bit should
> be cleared if and only if both EHCI and OHCI controllers are unloaded
> (as modules). I have done a nice picture of the hardware here, please
> take a look at it:
> 
> http://linux-sunxi.org/User:Arokux#USB_Host_Hardware
> 
> I've just realized that there is another commo thing for EHCI and OHCI
> - a GPIO which turns on the power to the USB_VBUS. The power should be
> supplied if at least one of the EHCI or OHCI is loaded. This again
> needs some central management.
> 
> So to summarize, I have two things (reset bit and GPIO for the
> USB_VBUS) which are common to EHCI and OHCI and need to be managed
> outside of the EHCI/OHCI bus glue drivers. My exact question is: where
> this management should be done? Are there good examples in the kernel
> already?

Probably you can have a look at drivers/mfd/omap-usb-host.c in mainline kernel.

Thanks
Kishon