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-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/altera.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/common-properties.txt60
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt1
4 files changed, 81 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/altera.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/altera.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..558735aacca8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/altera.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Altera's SoCFPGA platform device tree bindings
+---------------------------------------------
+
+Boards with Cyclone 5 SoC:
+Required root node properties:
+compatible = "altr,socfpga-cyclone5", "altr,socfpga";
+
+Boards with Arria 5 SoC:
+Required root node properties:
+compatible = "altr,socfpga-arria5", "altr,socfpga";
+
+Boards with Arria 10 SoC:
+Required root node properties:
+compatible = "altr,socfpga-arria10", "altr,socfpga";
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
index 256b4d8bab7b..e774128935d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ to deliver its interrupts via SPIs.
- interrupts : Interrupt list for secure, non-secure, virtual and
hypervisor timers, in that order.
-- clock-frequency : The frequency of the main counter, in Hz. Optional.
+- clock-frequency : The frequency of the main counter, in Hz. Should be present
+ only where necessary to work around broken firmware which does not configure
+ CNTFRQ on all CPUs to a uniform correct value. Use of this property is
+ strongly discouraged; fix your firmware unless absolutely impossible.
- always-on : a boolean property. If present, the timer is powered through an
always-on power domain, therefore it never loses context.
@@ -46,7 +49,8 @@ Example:
- compatible : Should at least contain "arm,armv7-timer-mem".
-- clock-frequency : The frequency of the main counter, in Hz. Optional.
+- clock-frequency : The frequency of the main counter, in Hz. Should be present
+ only when firmware has not configured the MMIO CNTFRQ registers.
- reg : The control frame base address.
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/common-properties.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/common-properties.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3193979b1d05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/common-properties.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+Common properties
+
+The ePAPR specification does not define any properties related to hardware
+byteswapping, but endianness issues show up frequently in porting Linux to
+different machine types. This document attempts to provide a consistent
+way of handling byteswapping across drivers.
+
+Optional properties:
+ - big-endian: Boolean; force big endian register accesses
+ unconditionally (e.g. ioread32be/iowrite32be). Use this if you
+ know the peripheral always needs to be accessed in BE mode.
+ - little-endian: Boolean; force little endian register accesses
+ unconditionally (e.g. readl/writel). Use this if you know the
+ peripheral always needs to be accessed in LE mode.
+ - native-endian: Boolean; always use register accesses matched to the
+ endianness of the kernel binary (e.g. LE vmlinux -> readl/writel,
+ BE vmlinux -> ioread32be/iowrite32be). In this case no byteswaps
+ will ever be performed. Use this if the hardware "self-adjusts"
+ register endianness based on the CPU's configured endianness.
+
+If a binding supports these properties, then the binding should also
+specify the default behavior if none of these properties are present.
+In such cases, little-endian is the preferred default, but it is not
+a requirement. The of_device_is_big_endian() and of_fdt_is_big_endian()
+helper functions do assume that little-endian is the default, because
+most existing (PCI-based) drivers implicitly default to LE by using
+readl/writel for MMIO accesses.
+
+Examples:
+Scenario 1 : CPU in LE mode & device in LE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+ compatible = "name";
+ reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+ ...
+ native-endian;
+};
+
+Scenario 2 : CPU in LE mode & device in BE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+ compatible = "name";
+ reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+ ...
+ big-endian;
+};
+
+Scenario 3 : CPU in BE mode & device in BE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+ compatible = "name";
+ reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+ ...
+ native-endian;
+};
+
+Scenario 4 : CPU in BE mode & device in LE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+ compatible = "name";
+ reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+ ...
+ little-endian;
+};
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
index 83737a3403d7..80339192c93e 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ aptina Aptina Imaging
arasan Arasan Chip Systems
arm ARM Ltd.
armadeus ARMadeus Systems SARL
+artesyn Artesyn Embedded Technologies Inc.
asahi-kasei Asahi Kasei Corp.
atmel Atmel Corporation
auo AU Optronics Corporation