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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus-core b/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus-core new file mode 100644 index 0000000..31e4720 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus-core @@ -0,0 +1,283 @@ +PMBus core driver and internal API +================================== + +Introduction +============ + +[from pmbus.org] The Power Management Bus (PMBus) is an open standard +power-management protocol with a fully defined command language that facilitates +communication with power converters and other devices in a power system. The +protocol is implemented over the industry-standard SMBus serial interface and +enables programming, control, and real-time monitoring of compliant power +conversion products. This flexible and highly versatile standard allows for +communication between devices based on both analog and digital technologies, and +provides true interoperability which will reduce design complexity and shorten +time to market for power system designers. Pioneered by leading power supply and +semiconductor companies, this open power system standard is maintained and +promoted by the PMBus Implementers Forum (PMBus-IF), comprising 30+ adopters +with the objective to provide support to, and facilitate adoption among, users. + +Unfortunately, while PMBus commands are standardized, there are no mandatory +commands, and manufacturers can add as many non-standard commands as they like. +Also, different PMBUs devices act differently if non-supported commands are +executed. Some devices return an error, some devices return 0xff or 0xffff and +set a status error flag, and some devices may simply hang up. + +Despite all those difficulties, a generic PMBus device driver is still useful +and supported since kernel version 2.6.39. However, it was necessary to support +device specific extensions in addition to the core PMBus driver, since it is +simply unknown what new device specific functionality PMBus device developers +come up with next. + +To make device specific extensions as scalable as possible, and to avoid having +to modify the core PMBus driver repeatedly for new devices, the PMBus driver was +split into core, generic, and device specific code. The core code (in +pmbus_core.c) provides generic functionality. The generic code (in pmbus.c) +provides support for generic PMBus devices. Device specific code is responsible +for device specific initialization and, if needed, maps device specific +functionality into generic functionality. This is to some degree comparable +to PCI code, where generic code is augmented as needed with quirks for all kinds +of devices. + +PMBus device capabilities auto-detection +======================================== + +For generic PMBus devices, code in pmbus.c attempts to auto-detect all supported +PMBus commands. Auto-detection is somewhat limited, since there are simply too +many variables to consider. For example, it is almost impossible to autodetect +which PMBus commands are paged and which commands are replicated across all +pages (see the PMBus specification for details on multi-page PMBus devices). + +For this reason, it often makes sense to provide a device specific driver if not +all commands can be auto-detected. The data structures in this driver can be +used to inform the core driver about functionality supported by individual +chips. + +Some commands are always auto-detected. This applies to all limit commands +(lcrit, min, max, and crit attributes) as well as associated alarm attributes. +Limits and alarm attributes are auto-detected because there are simply too many +possible combinations to provide a manual configuration interface. + +PMBus internal API +================== + +The API between core and device specific PMBus code is defined in +drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus.h. In addition to the internal API, pmbus.h defines +standard PMBus commands and virtual PMBus commands. + +Standard PMBus commands +----------------------- + +Standard PMBus commands (commands values 0x00 to 0xff) are defined in the PMBUs +specification. + +Virtual PMBus commands +---------------------- + +Virtual PMBus commands are provided to enable support for non-standard +functionality which has been implemented by several chip vendors and is thus +desirable to support. + +Virtual PMBus commands start with command value 0x100 and can thus easily be +distinguished from standard PMBus commands (which can not have values larger +than 0xff). Support for virtual PMBus commands is device specific and thus has +to be implemented in device specific code. + +Virtual commands are named PMBUS_VIRT_xxx and start with PMBUS_VIRT_BASE. All +virtual commands are word sized. + +There are currently two types of virtual commands. + +- READ commands are read-only; writes are either ignored or return an error. +- RESET commands are read/write. Reading reset registers returns zero + (used for detection), writing any value causes the associated history to be + reset. + +Virtual commands have to be handled in device specific driver code. Chip driver +code returns non-negative values if a virtual command is supported, or a +negative error code if not. The chip driver may return -ENODATA or any other +Linux error code in this case, though an error code other than -ENODATA is +handled more efficiently and thus preferred. Either case, the calling PMBus +core code will abort if the chip driver returns an error code when reading +or writing virtual registers (in other words, the PMBus core code will never +send a virtual command to a chip). + +PMBus driver information +------------------------ + +PMBus driver information, defined in struct pmbus_driver_info, is the main means +for device specific drivers to pass information to the core PMBus driver. +Specifically, it provides the following information. + +- For devices supporting its data in Direct Data Format, it provides coefficients + for converting register values into normalized data. This data is usually + provided by chip manufacturers in device datasheets. +- Supported chip functionality can be provided to the core driver. This may be + necessary for chips which react badly if non-supported commands are executed, + and/or to speed up device detection and initialization. +- Several function entry points are provided to support overriding and/or + augmenting generic command execution. This functionality can be used to map + non-standard PMBus commands to standard commands, or to augment standard + command return values with device specific information. + + API functions + ------------- + + Functions provided by chip driver + --------------------------------- + + All functions return the command return value (read) or zero (write) if + successful. A return value of -ENODATA indicates that there is no manufacturer + specific command, but that a standard PMBus command may exist. Any other + negative return value indicates that the commands does not exist for this + chip, and that no attempt should be made to read or write the standard + command. + + As mentioned above, an exception to this rule applies to virtual commands, + which _must_ be handled in driver specific code. See "Virtual PMBus Commands" + above for more details. + + Command execution in the core PMBus driver code is as follows. + + if (chip_access_function) { + status = chip_access_function(); + if (status != -ENODATA) + return status; + } + if (command >= PMBUS_VIRT_BASE) /* For word commands/registers only */ + return -EINVAL; + return generic_access(); + + Chip drivers may provide pointers to the following functions in struct + pmbus_driver_info. All functions are optional. + + int (*read_byte_data)(struct i2c_client *client, int page, int reg); + + Read byte from page <page>, register <reg>. + <page> may be -1, which means "current page". + + int (*read_word_data)(struct i2c_client *client, int page, int reg); + + Read word from page <page>, register <reg>. + + int (*write_word_data)(struct i2c_client *client, int page, int reg, + u16 word); + + Write word to page <page>, register <reg>. + + int (*write_byte)(struct i2c_client *client, int page, u8 value); + + Write byte to page <page>, register <reg>. + <page> may be -1, which means "current page". + + int (*identify)(struct i2c_client *client, struct pmbus_driver_info *info); + + Determine supported PMBus functionality. This function is only necessary + if a chip driver supports multiple chips, and the chip functionality is not + pre-determined. It is currently only used by the generic pmbus driver + (pmbus.c). + + Functions exported by core driver + --------------------------------- + + Chip drivers are expected to use the following functions to read or write + PMBus registers. Chip drivers may also use direct I2C commands. If direct I2C + commands are used, the chip driver code must not directly modify the current + page, since the selected page is cached in the core driver and the core driver + will assume that it is selected. Using pmbus_set_page() to select a new page + is mandatory. + + int pmbus_set_page(struct i2c_client *client, u8 page); + + Set PMBus page register to <page> for subsequent commands. + + int pmbus_read_word_data(struct i2c_client *client, u8 page, u8 reg); + + Read word data from <page>, <reg>. Similar to i2c_smbus_read_word_data(), but + selects page first. + + int pmbus_write_word_data(struct i2c_client *client, u8 page, u8 reg, + u16 word); + + Write word data to <page>, <reg>. Similar to i2c_smbus_write_word_data(), but + selects page first. + + int pmbus_read_byte_data(struct i2c_client *client, int page, u8 reg); + + Read byte data from <page>, <reg>. Similar to i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(), but + selects page first. <page> may be -1, which means "current page". + + int pmbus_write_byte(struct i2c_client *client, int page, u8 value); + + Write byte data to <page>, <reg>. Similar to i2c_smbus_write_byte(), but + selects page first. <page> may be -1, which means "current page". + + void pmbus_clear_faults(struct i2c_client *client); + + Execute PMBus "Clear Fault" command on all chip pages. + This function calls the device specific write_byte function if defined. + Therefore, it must _not_ be called from that function. + + bool pmbus_check_byte_register(struct i2c_client *client, int page, int reg); + + Check if byte register exists. Return true if the register exists, false + otherwise. + This function calls the device specific write_byte function if defined to + obtain the chip status. Therefore, it must _not_ be called from that function. + + bool pmbus_check_word_register(struct i2c_client *client, int page, int reg); + + Check if word register exists. Return true if the register exists, false + otherwise. + This function calls the device specific write_byte function if defined to + obtain the chip status. Therefore, it must _not_ be called from that function. + + int pmbus_do_probe(struct i2c_client *client, const struct i2c_device_id *id, + struct pmbus_driver_info *info); + + Execute probe function. Similar to standard probe function for other drivers, + with the pointer to struct pmbus_driver_info as additional argument. Calls + identify function if supported. Must only be called from device probe + function. + + void pmbus_do_remove(struct i2c_client *client); + + Execute driver remove function. Similar to standard driver remove function. + + const struct pmbus_driver_info + *pmbus_get_driver_info(struct i2c_client *client); + + Return pointer to struct pmbus_driver_info as passed to pmbus_do_probe(). + + +PMBus driver platform data +========================== + +PMBus platform data is defined in include/linux/i2c/pmbus.h. Platform data +currently only provides a flag field with a single bit used. + +#define PMBUS_SKIP_STATUS_CHECK (1 << 0) + +struct pmbus_platform_data { + u32 flags; /* Device specific flags */ +}; + + +Flags +----- + +PMBUS_SKIP_STATUS_CHECK + +During register detection, skip checking the status register for +communication or command errors. + +Some PMBus chips respond with valid data when trying to read an unsupported +register. For such chips, checking the status register is mandatory when +trying to determine if a chip register exists or not. +Other PMBus chips don't support the STATUS_CML register, or report +communication errors for no explicable reason. For such chips, checking the +status register must be disabled. + +Some i2c controllers do not support single-byte commands (write commands with +no data, i2c_smbus_write_byte()). With such controllers, clearing the status +register is impossible, and the PMBUS_SKIP_STATUS_CHECK flag must be set. |
