[PATCH v2 4/7] dt-bindings: timer: Add RISC-V ACLINT mtimer bindings
Joel Stanley
joel at jms.id.au
Thu Jun 4 07:39:50 PDT 2026
The mtimer hardware is described in The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual,
Volume II Privileged Architecture, 3.2.1. Machine Timer (mtime and
mtimecmp) Registers.
The ACLINT was a standalone spec that made it to v1.0-rc4, but was never
ratified. As explained by Anup:
> Only the timer defined by ACLINT specification is relevant but the
> RISC-V privileged specification already provides a high-level
> definition of mtime and mtimecmp MMIO registers (see section "Machine
> Timer (mtime and mtimecmp) Registers").
>
> Due to the above reasons, we dropped our plans to ratify ACLINT
> specification in-favor of AIA IMSIC and RISC-V Privileged
> specification.
Link: https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-aia/topic/connections_between_aia_and/107177435
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
---
v2:
- Use priv spec as reference
- Add soc name to tenstorrent compatible
- Fix reg property description
---
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
.../bindings/timer/riscv,aclint-mtimer.yaml | 56 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 57 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/riscv,aclint-mtimer.yaml
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 2fb1c75afd16..43dd9873bbc5 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -23005,6 +23005,7 @@ M: Joel Stanley <jms at oss.tenstorrent.com>
L: linux-riscv at lists.infradead.org
S: Maintained
T: git https://github.com/tenstorrent/linux.git
+F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/riscv,aclint-mtimer.yaml
F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/tenstorrent,atlantis-prcm-rcpu.yaml
F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/tenstorrent.yaml
F: arch/riscv/boot/dts/tenstorrent/
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/riscv,aclint-mtimer.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/riscv,aclint-mtimer.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1d645570b191
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/riscv,aclint-mtimer.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/timer/riscv,aclint-mtimer.yaml#
+$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
+
+title: RISC-V Advanced Core Local Interruptor (ACLINT) Machine-level Timer
+
+maintainers:
+ - Joel Stanley <jms at oss.tenstorrent.com>
+
+description:
+ The RISC-V machine-level timer exposes the memory-mapped mtime and per-hart
+ mtimecmp registers defined in The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual, Volume II
+ Privileged Architecture, 3.2.1. Machine Timer (mtime and mtimecmp) Registers.
+
+properties:
+ compatible:
+ items:
+ - enum:
+ - tenstorrent,atlantis-aclint-mtimer
+ - qemu,aclint-mtimer
+ - const: riscv,aclint-mtimer
+
+ reg:
+ items:
+ - description: MTIMECMP registers, one per hart
+ - description: MTIME register
+
+ reg-names:
+ items:
+ - const: mtimecmp
+ - const: mtime
+
+ interrupts-extended:
+ minItems: 1
+ maxItems: 4095
+
+required:
+ - compatible
+ - reg
+
+unevaluatedProperties: false
+
+examples:
+ - |
+ timer at ac000000 {
+ compatible = "tenstorrent,atlantis-aclint-mtimer", "riscv,aclint-mtimer";
+ reg = <0xac000000 0x8000>, <0xac008000 0x8000>;
+ reg-names = "mtimecmp", "mtime";
+ interrupts-extended = <&cpu1intc 7>,
+ <&cpu2intc 7>,
+ <&cpu3intc 7>,
+ <&cpu4intc 7>;
+ };
+...
--
2.47.3
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