[PATCH v4 1/2] powerpc: document the Open PIC device tree binding

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Mon Feb 28 18:44:07 EST 2011


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:59:36PM -0600, Meador Inge wrote:
> This binding documents several properties that have been in use for quite
> some time, and adds one new property 'pic-no-reset', which controls the runtime
> initialization behavior of the PIC.  More specifically, the presence of
> 'pic-no-reset' mandates that the PIC shall not be reset during runtime
> initialization and that any initialization related to interrupt sources
> shall be limited to sources explicitly referenced in the device tree.  This
> functionality is useful in AMP systems where multiple OSes are sharing the
> PIC and the reinitialization of the PIC can interfere with OSes that are
> already up and running.
> 
> The interrupt specifier definition is based off of Stuart Yoder's FSL MPIC
> binding.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Meador Inge <meador_inge at mentor.com>
> Cc: Hollis Blanchard <hollis_blanchard at mentor.com>
> Cc: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder at freescale.com>

Looks fine to me, except...

> ---
>  Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/open-pic.txt |   98 +++++++++++++++++++++++

Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings has moved to
Documentation/devicetree/bindings

g.



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