[PATCH 1/2] Documentation: DT: Add entry for ARM SP805-WDT

Bhupesh SHARMA bhupesh.linux at gmail.com
Sat Nov 28 13:47:24 PST 2015


Hi Rob,

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Bhupesh SHARMA <bhupesh.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> Thanks for the review.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 02:45:25PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 07:54:42PM +0530, Bhupesh Sharma wrote:
>>>> > This patch adds a devicetree binding documentation for ARM's
>>>> > SP805 WatchDog Timer.
>>>> >
>>>> > Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com>
>>>> > ---
>>>> >  .../devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sp805-wdt.txt     |   33 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> >  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
>>>> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sp805-wdt.txt
>>>> >
>>>> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sp805-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sp805-wdt.txt
>>>> > new file mode 100644
>>>> > index 0000000..ec70fe9
>>>> > --- /dev/null
>>>> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sp805-wdt.txt
>>>> > @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
>>>> > +* ARM SP805 Watchdog Timer (WDT) Controller
>>>> > +
>>>> > +SP805 WDT is a ARM Primecell Peripheral and has a standard-id register that
>>>> > +can be used to identify the peripheral type, vendor, and revision.
>>>> > +This value can be used for driver matching.
>>>> > +
>>
>> [snip..]
>>
>>>> > +As SP805 WDT is a primecell IP, it follows the base bindings specified in
>>>> > +'arm/primecell.txt'
>>>> > +
>>>> > +Required properties:
>>>> > +- compatible : Should be "arm,sp805-wdt", "arm,primecell"
>>>> > +- reg : Base address and size of the watchdog timer registers.
>>>> > +- interrupts : Should specify WDT interrupt number.
>>>> > +
>>>> > +Optional properties:
>>>> > +- clocks : From common clock binding. First clock is phandle to clock for apb
>>>> > +           pclk. Additional clocks are optional.
>>>> > +- clock-names : From common clock binding. Shall be "apb_pclk" for first clock.
>>>>
>>>> The hardware has "WDOGCLK", which is what the driver appears to expect
>>>> first implicitly.
>>>
>>> The h/w has 2 clocks, PCLK and WDOGCLK, so both should be described and
>>> neither should be optional.
>>
>> As per the SP805 WDT TRM I have with me (see [1], Figure 1-1), this
>> h/w has only only input
>> clock WDOGCLK.
>>
>> [1] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0270b/DDI0270.pdf
>
> Look closer, PCLK is in the AMBA bus signals. The version online has
> some timing diagrams also which I didn't find here.

Correct. So will add both PCLK and WDOGCLK to the compatible node in
the v2 of this patch.

Regards,
Bhupesh



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