[PATCH] coresight: document binding acronyms
Suzuki K Poulose
Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com
Wed Jun 22 02:10:18 PDT 2016
On 21/06/16 19:41, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> It can be hard for people not familiar with the CoreSight IP blocks
> to make sense of the acronyms found in the current bindings. As such
> this patch expands each acronym in the hope of providing a better
> description of the IP block they represent.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
Thanks for the update. One minor comment below.
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt | 32 ++++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt
> index 93147c0c8a0e..c73a7f773998 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt
> @@ -12,14 +12,30 @@ its hardware characteristcs.
>
> * compatible: These have to be supplemented with "arm,primecell" as
> drivers are using the AMBA bus interface. Possible values include:
> - - "arm,coresight-etb10", "arm,primecell";
> - - "arm,coresight-tpiu", "arm,primecell";
> - - "arm,coresight-tmc", "arm,primecell";
> - - "arm,coresight-funnel", "arm,primecell";
> - - "arm,coresight-etm3x", "arm,primecell";
> - - "arm,coresight-etm4x", "arm,primecell";
> - - "qcom,coresight-replicator1x", "arm,primecell";
> - - "arm,coresight-stm", "arm,primecell"; [1]
> + - Embedded Trace Buffer (version 1.0):
> + "arm,coresight-etb10", "arm,primecell";
> +
> + - Trace Port Interface Unit:
> + "arm,coresight-tpiu", "arm,primecell";
> +
> + - Trace Memory Controller (ETB, ETF, ETR):
> + "arm,coresight-tmc", "arm,primecell";
Is it worth an explicit mention about this, something like :
"We don't need special bindings for the mode (e.g, ETB, ETF or ETR) in
which the Coresight TMC is configured".
Either way, looks good to me.
Suzuki
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