Subject: [PATCH v6] arm64: dts: rockchip: rock-3b: Model PI6C20100 as gated-fixed-clock

From: MidG971 <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:11:28 +0100

From: Midgy BALON <[email-masked]>

The Radxa ROCK 3B uses a PI6C20100 PCIe reference clock buffer to
provide a 100MHz reference clock to the PCIe 3.0 PHY and controllers.
This chip is currently modeled only as a fixed regulator
(vcc3v3_pi6c_03), with no clock output representation.

The PI6C20100 is a clock generator, not a power supply. Model it
properly as a gated-fixed-clock, following the pattern established
for the Rock 5 ITX and other boards with similar PCIe clock buffer
chips.

The gated-fixed-clock node references the regulator as its vdd-supply,
allowing the regulator to be enabled on demand. Remove the
regulator-always-on and regulator-boot-on properties from vcc3v3_pi6c_03
since the clock framework will manage the regulator lifecycle via
vdd-supply. The pcie3x2 node is updated to include the pipe and
reference clocks, matching the approach used in rk3588-rock-5-itx.dts.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-3-opus
Signed-off-by: Midgy BALON <[email-masked]>
---

Changes since v5:
 - Drop "(100MHz)" from clock node comment, already in clock-frequency (Jonas)
 - Drop redundant comment before vcc3v3_pi6c_03 (Jonas)
 - Remove regulator-always-on and regulator-boot-on from vcc3v3_pi6c_03 (Jonas)
 - Drop Reviewed-by (patch has functional changes since v3 review)

Changes since v4:
 - Fix From: line to match Signed-off-by (Heiko)

Changes since v3 [1]:
 - Add Reviewed-by from Shawn Lin

Changes since v2 [2]:
 - Fix AI attribution: use Assisted-by tag instead of Signed-off-by (Shawn)
 - Add missing pipe clock (CLK_PCIE30X2_PIPE_DFT) to pcie3x2 clocks
   override (Shawn, referencing David's patch [3])

Changes since v1 [4]:
 - Drop phy-supply approach entirely (Jonas, Shawn)
 - Model PI6C20100 as gated-fixed-clock instead
 - Wire reference clock to pcie3x2 controller
 - Follow pattern from rk3588-rock-5-itx.dts

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rockchip/[email-masked]/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rockchip/[email-masked]/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rockchip/[email-masked]/T/#m6a8289609e6a60691d3c06358b6322c7aa5e43d1
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rockchip/[email-masked]/

 .../boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-rock-3b.dts      | 20 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-rock-3b.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-rock-3b.dts
index 3d0c1ccfa..d7d85b090 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-rock-3b.dts
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-rock-3b.dts
@@ -56,7 +56,15 @@ led-0 {
 		};
 	};

-	/* pi6c pcie clock generator */
+	/* PI6C20100 PCIe reference clock buffer */
+	pcie30_refclk: pcie-clock-generator {
+		compatible = "gated-fixed-clock";
+		#clock-cells = <0>;
+		clock-frequency = <100000000>;
+		clock-output-names = "pcie30_refclk";
+		vdd-supply = <&vcc3v3_pi6c_03>;
+	};
+
 	vcc3v3_pi6c_03: regulator-3v3-vcc-pi6c-03 {
 		compatible = "regulator-fixed";
 		enable-active-high;
@@ -64,8 +72,6 @@ vcc3v3_pi6c_03: regulator-3v3-vcc-pi6c-03 {
 		pinctrl-names = "default";
 		pinctrl-0 = <&pcie_pwren_h>;
 		regulator-name = "vcc3v3_pi6c_03";
-		regulator-always-on;
-		regulator-boot-on;
 		regulator-min-microvolt = <3300000>;
 		regulator-max-microvolt = <3300000>;
 		startup-delay-us = <10000>;
@@ -545,6 +551,14 @@ &pcie30phy {
 };

 &pcie3x2 {
+	clocks = <&cru ACLK_PCIE30X2_MST>, <&cru ACLK_PCIE30X2_SLV>,
+		 <&cru ACLK_PCIE30X2_DBI>, <&cru PCLK_PCIE30X2>,
+		 <&cru CLK_PCIE30X2_AUX_NDFT>,
+		 <&cru CLK_PCIE30X2_PIPE_DFT>,
+		 <&pcie30_refclk>;
+	clock-names = "aclk_mst", "aclk_slv",
+		      "aclk_dbi", "pclk", "aux",
+		      "pipe", "ref";
 	pinctrl-names = "default";
 	pinctrl-0 = <&pcie30x2m1_pins>;
 	reset-gpios = <&gpio2 RK_PD6 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
--
2.30.2