[PATCH v2 4/6] dt-bindings: dma: arm,dma-350: Document the CIX Sky1 integration

Conor Dooley conor at kernel.org
Fri Oct 9 08:31:26 PDT 2026


On Fri, Oct 09, 2026 at 01:18:44PM +0800, Jelly Jia wrote:
> The CIX Sky1 DMA-350 integration is the same device with SoC glue around
> it, so it is described by the arm,dma-350 node itself with an additional
> "cix,sky1-dma350" compatible rather than by a separate wrapper node.
> 
> Extend the binding with the CIX compatible and the resources the
> integration needs: a clock, a reset, an optional reserved memory region
> used when the controller cannot reach all of system memory, and the
> syscon that routes the channel interrupts to the AP interrupt
> controller on Sky1. The cix,irq-router property is only valid together
> with the CIX compatible.
> 
> Assisted-by: LLM checkpatch sparse dt_binding_check dtbs_check
> Signed-off-by: Jelly Jia <Jelly.Jia at cixtech.com>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
> - Folded the integration into arm,dma-350.yaml: the Sky1 DMA-350 is the
>   same device, so it keeps the generic compatible plus a device
>   specific "cix,sky1-dma350" compatible, and the integration resources
>   are described on the controller node.
> - Dropped the separate cix,sky1-dma350.yaml wrapper binding.
>  .../devicetree/bindings/dma/arm,dma-350.yaml  | 33 ++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/arm,dma-350.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/arm,dma-350.yaml
> index 429f682f15d8..3b991985c416 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/arm,dma-350.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/arm,dma-350.yaml
> @@ -11,10 +11,23 @@ maintainers:
>  
>  allOf:
>    - $ref: dma-controller.yaml#
> +  - if:
> +      not:
> +        properties:
> +          compatible:
> +            contains:
> +              const: cix,sky1-dma350
> +    then:
> +      properties:
> +        cix,irq-router: false
>  
>  properties:
>    compatible:
> -    const: arm,dma-350
> +    oneOf:
> +      - const: arm,dma-350
> +      - items:
> +          - const: cix,sky1-dma350
> +          - const: arm,dma-350
>  
>    reg:
>      items:
> @@ -36,6 +49,24 @@ properties:
>      const: 1
>      description: The cell is the trigger input number
>  
> +  clocks:
> +    maxItems: 1
> +
> +  resets:
> +    maxItems: 1
> +
> +  memory-region:
> +    maxItems: 1
> +    description:
> +      Reserved memory region used for DMA allocations when the controller
> +      cannot reach all of system memory.
> +
> +  cix,irq-router:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle
> +    description:
> +      Syscon phandle for the CIX Sky1 subsystem register block that routes
> +      DMA-350 channel interrupts to the AP interrupt controller.

See comments on the driver for more on this, but I'm not convinced that
this should be in this node - especially if this thing controls other
device's routing too.

Thanks,
Conor.

> +
>  required:
>    - compatible
>    - reg
> -- 
> 2.54.0
> 
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