[PATCHv2] powerpc: Describe memory-mapped RAM&ROM chips OF bindings

Laurent Pinchart laurentp at cse-semaphore.com
Mon Mar 31 12:39:10 EDT 2008


Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurentp at cse-semaphore.com>
---
 Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt |   13 ++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
index 7b4e8a7..3e1963b 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ Table of Contents
       n) 4xx/Axon EMAC ethernet nodes
       o) Xilinx IP cores
       p) Freescale Synchronous Serial Interface
-	  q) USB EHCI controllers
+      q) USB EHCI controllers
+      r) Memory-mapped RAM & ROM
 
   VII - Specifying interrupt information for devices
     1) interrupts property
@@ -2816,6 +2817,16 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model.
 		   big-endian;
 	   };
 
+   r) Memory-mapped RAM & ROM
+
+    Dedicated RAM and ROM chips are often used as storage for temporary or
+    permanent data in embedded devices. Possible usage include non-volatile
+    storage in battery-backed SRAM, semi-permanent storage in dedicated SRAM
+    to preserve data accross reboots and firmware storage in dedicated ROM.
+
+     - name : should be either "ram" or "rom"
+     - reg : Address range of the RAM/ROM chip
+
 
    More devices will be defined as this spec matures.
 
-- 
1.5.0


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