[PATCH v8 1/4] dt-binding:Documents of the mbigen bindings
majun (F)
majun258 at huawei.com
Thu Nov 19 02:53:51 PST 2015
在 2015/11/19 1:50, Marc Zyngier 写道:
> On 06/11/15 08:28, MaJun wrote:
>> From: Ma Jun <majun258 at huawei.com>
>>
>> Add the mbigen msi interrupt controller bindings document.
>>
>> This patch based on Mark Rutland's patch
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/23/558
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ma Jun <majun258 at huawei.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mbigen.txt | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mbigen.txt
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mbigen.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mbigen.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..eb9a7fd
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mbigen.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
>> +Hisilicon mbigen device tree bindings.
>> +=======================================
>> +
>> +Mbigen means: message based interrupt generator.
>> +
>> +MBI is kind of msi interrupt only used on Non-PCI devices.
>> +
>> +To reduce the wired interrupt number connected to GIC,
>> +Hisilicon designed mbigen to collect and generate interrupt.
>> +
>> +
>> +Non-pci devices can connect to mbigen and generate the
>> +interrupt by writing ITS register.
>> +
>> +The mbigen chip and devices connect to mbigen have the following properties:
>> +
>> +Mbigen main node required properties:
>> +-------------------------------------------
>> +- compatible: Should be "hisilicon,mbigen-v2"
>> +- reg: Specifies the base physical address and size of the Mbigen
>> + registers.
>> +- interrupt controller: Identifies the node as an interrupt controller
>> +- msi-parent: This property has two cells.
>> + The 1st cell specifies the ITS this device connected.
>> + The 2nd cell specifies the device id.
>> +- nr-msis:Specifies the total number of interrupt this device has.
>
> So here you have the nr-msis property...
I'll change this to num-msis.
Thanks!
Ma Jun
>
>> +- #interrupt-cells : Specifies the number of cells needed to encode an
>> + interrupt source. The value is 2 now.
>> +
>
> Just say "Must be 2".
>
>> + The 1st cell is global hardware pin number of the interrupt.
>> + This value depends on the Soc design.
>> + The 2nd cell is the interrupt trigger type.
>> +
>> +Examples:
>> +
>> + mbigen_device_gmac:intc {
>> + compatible = "hisilicon,mbigen-v2";
>> + reg = <0x0 0xc0080000 0x0 0x10000>;
>> + interrupt-controller;
>> + msi-parent = <&its_dsa 0x40b1c>;
>> + num-msis = <9>;
>
> ... and here this is num-msis.
>
> Which one is it? The driver seems to use num-msis as well, but I have no
> idea which one is the right one.
>
>> + #interrupt-cells = <2>;
>> + };
>> +
>> +Devices connect to mbigen required properties:
>> +----------------------------------------------------
>> +-interrupt-parent: Specifies the mbigen device node which device connected.
>> +-interrupts:specifies the interrupt source.
>> + The 1st cell is global hardware pin number of the interrupt.
>> + This value depends on the Soc design.
>> + The 2nd cell is the interrupt trigger type
>> +
>> +Examples:
>> + gmac0: ethernet at c2080000 {
>> + #address-cells = <1>;
>> + #size-cells = <0>;
>> + reg = <0 0xc2080000 0 0x20000>,
>> + <0 0xc0000000 0 0x1000>;
>> + interrupt-parent = <&mbigen_device_gmac>;
>> + interrupts = <656 1>,
>> + <657 1>;
>> + };
>> +
>>
>
> Thanks,
>
> M.
>
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