[PATCH 3/6] Documentation: DT: Add entry for FSL Management Complex
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Fri Aug 15 04:00:20 PDT 2014
[devicetree-discuss is no more, fixing up to devicetree at vger.kernel.org]
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:49:12AM +0100, Bhupesh Sharma wrote:
> This patch adds a devicetree binding documentation for FSL's
> Management Complex.
>
> Management Complex is a hardware resource manager that manages
> specialized hardware objects used in network-oriented packet
> processing applications
>
> Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: J. German Rivera <German.Rivera at freescale.com>
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/misc/fsl,qoriq-mc.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/fsl,qoriq-mc.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/fsl,qoriq-mc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/fsl,qoriq-mc.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..608529e
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/fsl,qoriq-mc.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
> +* Freescale Management Complex
> +
> +The Freescale Management Complex (fsl-mc) is a hardware resource
> +manager that manages specialized hardware objects used in
> +network-oriented packet processing applications. After the fsl-mc
> +block is enabled, pools of hardware resources are available, such as
> +queues, buffer pools, I/O interfaces. These resources are building
> +blocks that can be used to create functional hardware objects/devices
> +such as network interfaces, crypto accelerator instances, L2 switches,
> +etc.
> +
> +Required properties:
> +
> + - compatible
> + Value type: <string>
> + Definition: Must be "fsl,qoriq-mc". A Freescale Management Complex
> + compatible with this binding must have Block Revision
> + Registers BRR1 and BRR2 at offset 0x0BF8 and 0x0BFC in
> + the MC control register region.
> +
> + - reg
> + Value type: <prop-encoded-array>
> + Definition: A standard property. Specifies one or two regions
> + defining the MC's registers:
> +
> + -the first region is the command portal for the
> + this machine and must always be present
> +
> + -the second region is the MC control registers. This
> + region may not be present in some scenarios, such
> + as in the device tree presented to a virtual machine.
This looks extremely simple. Is this unit self-contained or does it
relate to other blocks which will be described separately?
> +
> +Example:
> +
> + fsl_mc: fsl-mc at 80c000000 {
> + compatible = "fsl,qoriq-mc";
> + reg = <0x00000008 0x0c000000 0 0x40 // MC portal base
> + 0x00000000 0x08340000 0 0x40000 >; // MC control reg
Nit: could we bracket list entries individually please?
Thanks,
Mark.
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