[PATCH v2 1/5] tty/serial: RS485 bindings for device tree

Nicolas Ferre nicolas.ferre at atmel.com
Wed Oct 12 12:06:56 EDT 2011


Generic bindings for RS485 feature included in some UARTs.
Those bindings have to be used withing an UART device tree node.
Documentation updated to link to the bindings definition.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/rs485.txt |   31 ++++++++++++++++++++
 .../devicetree/bindings/tty/serial/atmel-usart.txt |   27 +++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/serial/serial-rs485.txt              |    5 +++
 3 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/rs485.txt
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/tty/serial/atmel-usart.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/rs485.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/rs485.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1e753c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/rs485.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+* RS485 serial communications
+
+The RTS signal is capable of automatically controlling line direction for
+the built-in half-duplex mode.
+The properties described hereafter shall be given to a half-duplex capable
+UART node.
+
+Required properties:
+- rs485-rts-delay: prop-encoded-array <a b> where:
+  * a is the delay beteween rts signal and beginning of data sent in milliseconds.
+      it corresponds to the delay before sending data.
+  * b is the delay between end of data sent and rts signal in milliseconds
+      it corresponds to the delay after sending data and actual release of the line.
+
+Optional properties:
+- linux,rs485-enabled-at-boot-time: empty property telling to enable the rs485
+  feature at boot time. It can be disabled later with proper ioctl.
+- rs485-rx-during-tx: empty property that enables the receiving of data even
+  whilst sending data.
+
+RS485 example for Atmel USART:
+	usart0: serial at fff8c000 {
+		compatible = "atmel,at91sam9260-usart";
+		reg = <0xfff8c000 0x4000>;
+		interrupts = <7>;
+		atmel,use-dma-rx;
+		atmel,use-dma-tx;
+		linux,rs485-enabled-at-boot-time;
+		rs485-rts-delay = <0 200>;		// in milliseconds
+	};
+
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/tty/serial/atmel-usart.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/tty/serial/atmel-usart.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a49d9a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/tty/serial/atmel-usart.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+* Atmel Universal Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (USART)
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: Should be "atmel,<chip>-usart"
+  The compatible <chip> indicated will be the first SoC to support an
+  additional mode or an USART new feature.
+- reg: Should contain registers location and length
+- interrupts: Should contain interrupt
+
+Optional properties:
+- atmel,use-dma-rx: use of PDC or DMA for receiving data
+- atmel,use-dma-tx: use of PDC or DMA for transmitting data
+
+<chip> compatible description:
+- at91rm9200:  legacy USART support
+- at91sam9260: generic USART implementation for SAM9 SoCs
+
+Example:
+
+	usart0: serial at fff8c000 {
+		compatible = "atmel,at91sam9260-usart";
+		reg = <0xfff8c000 0x4000>;
+		interrupts = <7>;
+		atmel,use-dma-rx;
+		atmel,use-dma-tx;
+	};
+
diff --git a/Documentation/serial/serial-rs485.txt b/Documentation/serial/serial-rs485.txt
index c8878f8..079cb3d 100644
--- a/Documentation/serial/serial-rs485.txt
+++ b/Documentation/serial/serial-rs485.txt
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@
    RS485 communications. This data structure is used to set and configure RS485
    parameters in the platform data and in ioctls.
 
+   The device tree can also provide RS485 boot time parameters (see [2]
+   for bindings). The driver is in charge of filling this data structure from
+   the values given by the device tree.
+
    Any driver for devices capable of working both as RS232 and RS485 should
    provide at least the following ioctls:
 
@@ -121,3 +125,4 @@
 5. REFERENCES
 
  [1]	include/linux/serial.h
+ [2]	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/rs485.txt
-- 
1.7.5.4




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