[PATCH 4/5] dt-bindings: Document MIPS Broadcom STB power management nodes
Florian Fainelli
f.fainelli at gmail.com
Fri Jun 23 13:08:43 PDT 2017
On 06/23/2017 01:02 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 02:37:02PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> Document the different nodes required for supporting S2/S3/S5 suspend
>> states on MIPS-based Broadcom STB SoCs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> .../devicetree/bindings/mips/brcm/soc.txt | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/brcm/soc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/brcm/soc.txt
>> index e4e1cd91fb1f..f7413168d938 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/brcm/soc.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/brcm/soc.txt
>> @@ -11,3 +11,80 @@ Required properties:
>>
>> The experimental -viper variants are for running Linux on the 3384's
>> BMIPS4355 cable modem CPU instead of the BMIPS5000 application processor.
>> +
>> +Power management
>> +----------------
>> +
>> +For power management (particularly, S2/S3/S5 system suspend), the following SoC
>> +components are needed:
>> +
>> += Always-On control block (AON CTRL)
>> +
>> +This hardware provides control registers for the "always-on" (even in low-power
>> +modes) hardware, such as the Power Management State Machine (PMSM).
>> +
>> +Required properties:
>> +- compatible : should contain "brcm,brcmstb-aon-ctrl"
>
> Exact same block on all SoCs?
Not quite exactly the same, I will put something more SoC-specific in
the binding here.
>
>> +- reg : the register start and length for the AON CTRL block
>> +
>> +Example:
>> +
>> +aon-ctrl at 410000 {
>
> syscon at ...
>
>> + compatible = "brcm,brcmstb-aon-ctrl";
>> + reg = <0x410000 0x400>;
>> +};
>> +
>> += Memory controllers
>> +
>> +A Broadcom STB SoC typically has a number of independent memory controllers,
>> +each of which may have several associated hardware blocks, which are versioned
>> +independently (control registers, DDR PHYs, etc.). One might consider
>> +describing these controllers as a parent "memory controllers" block, which
>> +contains N sub-nodes (one for each controller in the system), each of which is
>> +associated with a number of hardware register resources (e.g., its PHY). See
>> +the example device tree snippet below.
>
> What example?
Whoops, that's indeed missing.
>
>> +
>> +== MEMC (MEMory Controller)
>> +
>> +Represents a single memory controller instance.
>> +
>> +Required properties:
>> +- compatible : should contain "brcm,brcmstb-memc" and "simple-bus"
>
> No registers for the controller?
There are indeed registers, thanks for catching that.
>
>> +
>> +Should contain subnodes for any of the following relevant hardware resources:
>> +
>> +== DDR PHY control
>> +
>> +Control registers for this memory controller's DDR PHY.
>> +
>> +Required properties:
>> +- compatible : should contain one of these
>> + "brcm,brcmstb-ddr-phy-v64.5"
>> + "brcm,brcmstb-ddr-phy"
>> +
>> +- reg : the DDR PHY register range
>> +
>> +== MEMC Arbiter
>> +
>> +The memory controller arbiter is responsible for memory clients allocation
>> +(bandwidth, priorities etc.) and needs to have its contents restored during
>> +deep sleep states (S3).
>> +
>> +Required properties:
>> +
>> +- compatible : should contain one of these
>> + "brcm,brcmstb-memc-arb-v10.0.0.0"
>> + "brcm,brcmstb-memc-arb"
>> +
>> +- reg : the DDR Arbiter register range
>> +
>> +== Timers
>> +
>> +The Broadcom STB chips contain a timer block with several general purpose
>> +timers that can be used.
>> +
>> +Required properties:
>> +
>> +- compatible : should contain "brcm,brcmstb-timers"
>> +- reg : the timers register range
>> +
>> --
>> 2.9.3
>>
--
Florian
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