Finally on the patch to give an outline description to Bluetooth on the
Tinker Boards.
Synthesis here is harder.
On the one hand, it is non functioning - because although it describes
the hardware, it has no compatible flag, and there is no current driver
in the kernel.
It should be said though there is a patch for a proposed driver:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg78661.html
And if accepted this would give the compatible flag. So should this
change wait until that is added?
An alternative approach though arises from what Tony McKahan of Armbian
writes
"For the Bluetooth I can confirm _RTS is required"
So this device tree segment is useful - it correctly describes the uart
portion of the interface, and that is hard to determine from the ASUS
dts. So this is useful information to capture.
On the pinout information of the rtl8723. Two points:
1) information like clock, and voltage supplies, are formally hardware
correct, but practically will probably never be applied via bluetooth.
Instead its the wifi that brings this hardware up. So should these be
supplied if unlikly to be used? I think they should as they formally
describe the hardware.
2) Confusion over enable-gpios vs reset-gpios
The second appeared on the bluetooth thread:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg78654.html
should this be written:
enable-gpios = <&gpio4 RK_PD5 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
or
reset-gpios = <&gpio4 RK_PD5 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
The datasheet (as available as it is):
http://cit.odessa.ua/media/pdf/Intel-Compute-Stick/FN-Link_F23BDSM25-W1.pdf
Says it is BT_RST - BT Reset IN
but the current kernel driver hci_h5 says:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/bluetooth/hci_h5.c#L989
{ "enable-gpios", &btrtl_enable_gpios, 1 },
And RobH clearly has a view:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg79138.html
So there is still some confusion.
Guess its a question of it a partial hardware description, with possible
faults, is better than no device tree description of the hardware?
Any views?
On 17/02/2019 12:15, David Summers wrote:
> This patch is to add Bluetooth to the ASUS Tinker Board (S) device
> tree.
>
> This patch is more contraversal - so probably view it as a request for
> comments.
>
> The reason behind this, is this patch does not currently set Bluetooth
> working on the these boards. The problem is that the
> bluetooth/hci_h5.c driver, that is used for Realtek serial devices,
> depends on ACPI. Unfortantly ACPI can not be enabled on armv7 machines
> such as the TB(S). And so the kernel module for the RTL8723BS
> Bluetooth can not be loaded.
>
> However this patch is believed to be an accurate description of the
> Tinker Board (S) wiring. It is strongly based on the ASUS patch:
>
> https://github.com/TinkerBoard/debian_kernel/commit/6a3128ade33f758887048578ada61a4b7ab8e678
>
> As the Bluetooth is connected via a UART and this is wired into uart0,
> this has been described as a SerDev.
>
> The ASUS patch mentions the UART_CTS, but not the _RTS. Now as the
> RTL8723BS has both CTS and RTS on the uart, it has been assumed both
> are wired into uart0 on the cpu.
>
> The Bluetooth connection has several wake up pins both device and host
> and a reset pin. The wiring of these has been described; however how
> the kernel driver will use these isn't clear. E.g. should HOST_WAKE be
> an interupt?
>
> The main reason for asking for comments, is that when it comes time to
> make the changes to the bluetooth uart code, and add compatible flags,
> robh has indicated that this will only be accepted with a valid
> example. So the code below is that example. So I would like comments
> that this approach is valid, which can be used when the later
> submission comes.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Summers <[email protected]>
> ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-tinker.dtsi | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-tinker.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-tinker.dtsi
> index e1796f340eef..931b4c652fdc 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-tinker.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-tinker.dtsi
> @@ -481,6 +481,17 @@
>
> &uart0 {
> status = "okay";
> + pinctrl-names = "default";
> + pinctrl-0 = <&uart0_xfer>, <&uart0_cts>, <&uart0_rts>;
> +
> + bluetooth {
> + clocks = <&rk808 RK808_CLKOUT1>;
> + reset-gpios = <&gpio4 RK_PD5 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
> + device-wake-gpios = <&gpio4 RK_PD2 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
> + host-wake-gpios = <&gpio4 RK_PD7 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
> + vcc-18-supply = <&vcc_18>;
> + vcc-io-supply = <&vcc_io>;
> + };
> };
>
> &uart1 {