[PATCHv2 3/3] Documentation: DT bindings: Tegra AHB: note base address change
Paul Walmsley
paul at pwsan.com
Thu Mar 19 08:26:06 PDT 2015
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 01:32:21AM -0700, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> > Required properties:
> > - compatible : For Tegra20, must contain "nvidia,tegra20-ahb". For
> > - Tegra30, must contain "nvidia,tegra30-ahb". Otherwise, must contain
> > - '"nvidia,<chip>-ahb", "nvidia,tegra30-ahb"' where <chip> is tegra124,
> > - tegra132, or tegra210.
> > -- reg : Should contain 1 register ranges(address and length)
> > + Tegra30, must contain "nvidia,tegra30-ahb". For Tegra114 and Tegra124, must
> > + contain '"nvidia,<chip>-ahb", "nvidia,tegra30-ahb"' where <chip> is tegra114
> > + or tegra124. For Tegra132, the compatible string must contain
> > + "nvidia,tegra132-ahb".
> > +
> > +- reg : Should contain 1 register ranges(address and length). On Tegra20,
> > + Tegra30, Tegra114, and Tegra124 chips, the low byte of the physical base
> > + address of the IP block must end in 0x04. On DT files for later chips, the
> > + actual hardware base address of the IP block should be used.
>
> You could check that in the driver. If you can check it in the driver,
> you can also decide to ignore it if it were offset by 0x04 (possibly
> printing a warning.) That opens up the ability to fix the older Tegra
> DT files going forward while still remaining compatible with existing
> DT files, and avoiding the need for a complex note about this.
That's fine, I'll do that and drop this patch.
- Paul
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