[PATCH V5 10/14] Documentation: DT: bindings: Add power domain info for NVIDIA PMC

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Wed Feb 3 07:48:31 PST 2016


On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Jon Hunter <jonathanh at nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> On 29/01/16 16:06, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 04:33:48PM +0000, Jon Hunter wrote:
>>> Add power-domain binding documentation for the NVIDIA PMC driver in
>>> order to support generic power-domains.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh at nvidia.com>
>>> ---
>>>  .../bindings/arm/tegra/nvidia,tegra20-pmc.txt      | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 55 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/tegra/nvidia,tegra20-pmc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/tegra/nvidia,tegra20-pmc.txt
>>> index 53aa5496c5cf..3c77373aa826 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/tegra/nvidia,tegra20-pmc.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/tegra/nvidia,tegra20-pmc.txt
>>> @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
>>>  NVIDIA Tegra Power Management Controller (PMC)
>>>
>>> +== Power Management Controller Node ==
>>> +
>>>  The PMC block interacts with an external Power Management Unit. The PMC
>>>  mostly controls the entry and exit of the system from different sleep
>>>  modes. It provides power-gating controllers for SoC and CPU power-islands.
>>> @@ -70,6 +72,10 @@ Optional properties for hardware-triggered thermal reset (inside 'i2c-thermtrip'
>>>                       Defaults to 0. Valid values are described in section 12.5.2
>>>                       "Pinmux Support" of the Tegra4 Technical Reference Manual.
>>>
>>> +Optional nodes:
>>> +- powergates : This node contains a hierarchy of power domain nodes, which
>>> +           should match the powergates on the Tegra SoC.
>>> +
>>>  Example:
>>>
>>>  / SoC dts including file
>>> @@ -115,3 +121,52 @@ pmc at 7000f400 {
>>>      };
>>>      ...
>>>  };
>>> +
>>> +
>>> +== PM Domain Nodes ==
>>> +
>>> +Each of the PM domain nodes represents a power-domain on the Tegra SoC
>>> +that can be power-gated by the PMC and should be named appropriately.
>>> +
>>> +Required properties:
>>> +  - clocks: Must contain an entry for each clock required by the PMC for
>>> +    controlling a power-gate. See ../clocks/clock-bindings.txt for details.
>>> +  - resets: Must contain an entry for each reset required by the PMC for
>>> +    controlling a power-gate. See ../reset/reset.txt for details.
>>> +  - nvidia,powergate: Integer cell that contains an identifier for the PMC
>>> +    power-gate that is associated with the power-domain. Please refer to
>>> +    the Tegra TRM for more details.
>>
>> Why not make this value be the power-domain cell for consumers and the
>> pmc be the phandle.
>
> Is there anything wrong with using a label for the consumers? Seems
> simpler, if you can just say ...
>
>         adma: adma at 702e2000 {
>                 ...
>                 power-domains = <&pd_audio>;
>                 ...
>         };

Only that is a bit unusual. It would only really matter if we had some
common parsing that we wanted to share. I'd look at other examples and
try to align. If there's no clear pattern, then it is fine.

>> Then use reg property for the subnodes. That avoids a custom property.
>
> That is fine with me.
>
> Jon



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