[PATCH v3 1/4] dt-bindings: firmware: Add bindings for ZynqMP firmware
Jolly Shah
JOLLYS at xilinx.com
Wed Jan 31 17:04:45 PST 2018
Hi Mark,
Thanks for the review,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Rutland [mailto:mark.rutland at arm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 10:04 AM
> To: Jolly Shah <JOLLYS at xilinx.com>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] dt-bindings: firmware: Add bindings for ZynqMP
> firmware
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 03:21:11PM -0800, Jolly Shah wrote:
> > Add documentation to describe Xilinx ZynqMP firmware driver bindings.
> > Firmware driver provides an interface to firmware APIs. Interface APIs
> > can be used by any driver to communicate to PMUFW (Platform Management
> > Unit).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jolly Shah <jollys at xilinx.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Rajan Vaja <rajanv at xilinx.com>
> > ---
> > .../bindings/firmware/xilinx/xlnx,zynqmp-firmware.txt | 16
> ++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/xilinx/xlnx,zynqmp-firmware
> > .txt
> >
> > diff --git
> > a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/xilinx/xlnx,zynqmp-firmwa
> > re.txt
> > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/xilinx/xlnx,zynqmp-firmwa
> > re.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..a7aaf56
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/xilinx/xlnx,zynqmp-fi
> > +++ rmware.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> > +Xilinx Zynq MPSoC Firmware Device Tree Bindings
> > +
> > +The zynqmp-firmware node describes the interface to platform firmware.
>
> Is there any documentation for this that can be referred to?
>
Will add more information about supported APIs in next version patch.
Below document describes interface APIs though it is not latest.
https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug1200-eemi-api.pdf
> > +
> > +Required properties:
> > + - compatible: Must contain: "xlnx,zynqmp-firmware"
> > + - method: The method of calling the PM-API firmware layer.
> > + Permitted values are:
> > + - "smc" : To be used in configurations without a hypervisor
> > + - "hvc" : To be used when hypervisor is present
>
> Please specify what exactly these mean. I assume these follow the SMCCC.
> If so, this can be:
>
> - method: The method of calling the PM-API firmware layer.
> Permitted values are:
> - "smc" : SMC #0, following the SMCCC
> - "hvc" : HVC #0, following the SMCCC
>
> Otherwise, this looks ok to me.
>
Yes it follows SMCCC.
> Thanks,
> Mark.
>
> > +
> > +Examples:
> > + zynqmp_firmware: zynqmp-firmware {
> > + compatible = "xlnx,zynqmp-firmware";
> > + method = "smc";
> > + };
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >
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