[PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: ipmi: aspeed: Introduce a v2 binding for KCS
Rob Herring
robh+dt at kernel.org
Fri Dec 6 04:50:36 AEDT 2019
On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 11:12 PM Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au> wrote:
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>
>
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, at 01:01, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 6:36 AM Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > The v2 binding utilises reg and renames some of the v1 properties.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au>
> > > ---
> > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ipmi/aspeed-kcs-bmc.txt | 20 +++++---
> > > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ipmi/aspeed-kcs-bmc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ipmi/aspeed-kcs-bmc.txt
> > > index d98a9bf45d6c..76b180ebbde4 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ipmi/aspeed-kcs-bmc.txt
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ipmi/aspeed-kcs-bmc.txt
> > > @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
> > > -* Aspeed KCS (Keyboard Controller Style) IPMI interface
> > > +# Aspeed KCS (Keyboard Controller Style) IPMI interface
> > >
> > > The Aspeed SOCs (AST2400 and AST2500) are commonly used as BMCs
> > > (Baseboard Management Controllers) and the KCS interface can be
> > > used to perform in-band IPMI communication with their host.
> > >
> > > +## v1
> > > Required properties:
> > > - compatible : should be one of
> > > "aspeed,ast2400-kcs-bmc"
> > > @@ -12,14 +13,21 @@ Required properties:
> > > - kcs_chan : The LPC channel number in the controller
> > > - kcs_addr : The host CPU IO map address
> > >
> > > +## v2
> > > +Required properties:
> > > +- compatible : should be one of
> > > + "aspeed,ast2400-kcs-bmc-v2"
> > > + "aspeed,ast2500-kcs-bmc-v2"
> > > +- reg : The address and size of the IDR, ODR and STR registers
> > > +- interrupts : interrupt generated by the controller
> > > +- slave-reg : The host CPU IO map address
> >
> > aspeed,slave-reg
>
> I don't agree, as it's not an aspeed-specific behaviour. This property
> controls where the device appears in the host's LPC IO address space,
> which is a common problem for any LPC IO device exposed by the BMC
> to the host.
Then document it as such. Common properties go into common binding documents.
> > > Example:
> > >
> > > - kcs3: kcs3 at 0 {
> > > - compatible = "aspeed,ast2500-kcs-bmc";
> > > - reg = <0x0 0x80>;
> > > + kcs3: kcs at 24 {
> > > + compatible = "aspeed,ast2500-kcs-bmc-v2";
> > > + reg = <0x24 0x1>, <0x30 0x1>, <0x3c 0x1>;
> >
> > What are the other registers in this address space? I'm not so sure
> > this is an improvement if you end up with a bunch of nodes with single
> > registers.
>
> Put into practice the bindings give the following patch: on the AST2500:
Okay, that's an unfortunate interleaving, but seems fine.
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g5.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g5.dtsi
> index e8feb8b66a2f..5d51f469cbf0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g5.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g5.dtsi
> @@ -399,22 +399,22 @@
> #size-cells = <1>;
> ranges = <0x0 0x0 0x80>;
>
> - kcs1: kcs1 at 0 {
> - compatible = "aspeed,ast2500-kcs-bmc";
> + kcs1: kcs at 24 {
> + compatible = "aspeed,ast2500-kcs-bmc-v2";
> + reg = <0x24 0x1>, <0x30 0x1>, <0x3c 0x1>;
> interrupts = <8>;
> - kcs_chan = <1>;
> status = "disabled";
> };
> - kcs2: kcs2 at 0 {
> - compatible = "aspeed,ast2500-kcs-bmc";
> + kcs2: kcs at 28 {
> + compatible = "aspeed,ast2500-kcs-bmc-v2";
> + reg = <0x28 0x1>, <0x34 0x1>, <0x40 0x1>;
> interrupts = <8>;
> - kcs_chan = <2>;
> status = "disabled";
> };
> - kcs3: kcs3 at 0 {
> - compatible = "aspeed,ast2500-kcs-bmc";
> + kcs3: kcs at 2c {
> + compatible = "aspeed,ast2500-kcs-bmc-v2";
> + reg = <0x2c 0x1>, <0x38 0x1>, <0x44 0x1>;
> interrupts = <8>;
> - kcs_chan = <3>;
> status = "disabled";
> };
> };
> @@ -428,10 +428,10 @@
> #size-cells = <1>;
> ranges = <0x0 0x80 0x1e0>;
>
> - kcs4: kcs4 at 0 {
> - compatible = "aspeed,ast2500-kcs-bmc";
> + kcs4: kcs at 94 {
> + compatible = "aspeed,ast2500-kcs-bmc-v2";
> + reg = <0x94 0x1>, <0x98 0x1>, <0x9c 0x1>;
> interrupts = <8>;
> - kcs_chan = <4>;
> status = "disabled";
> };
>
> The aim is to fix these warnings which appear for every aspeed-based devicetree:
>
> arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g5.dtsi:376.19-381.8: Warning (unit_address_vs_reg): /ahb/apb/lpc at 1e789000/lpc-bmc at 0/kcs1 at 0: node has a unit name, but no reg property
> arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g5.dtsi:382.19-387.8: Warning (unit_address_vs_reg): /ahb/apb/lpc at 1e789000/lpc-bmc at 0/kcs2 at 0: node has a unit name, but no reg property
> arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g5.dtsi:388.19-393.8: Warning (unit_address_vs_reg): /ahb/apb/lpc at 1e789000/lpc-bmc at 0/kcs3 at 0: node has a unit name, but no reg property
> arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g5.dtsi:405.19-410.8: Warning (unit_address_vs_reg): /ahb/apb/lpc at 1e789000/lpc-host at 80/kcs4 at 0: node has a unit name, but no reg property
> arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g5.dtsi:376.19-381.8: Warning (unique_unit_address): /ahb/apb/lpc at 1e789000/lpc-bmc at 0/kcs1 at 0: duplicate unit-address (also used in node /ahb/apb/lpc at 1e789000/lpc-bmc at 0/kcs2 at 0)
> arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g5.dtsi:376.19-381.8: Warning (unique_unit_address): /ahb/apb/lpc at 1e789000/lpc-bmc at 0/kcs1 at 0: duplicate unit-address (also used in node /ahb/apb/lpc at 1e789000/lpc-bmc at 0/kcs3 at 0)
> arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g5.dtsi:382.19-387.8: Warning (unique_unit_address): /ahb/apb/lpc at 1e789000/lpc-bmc at 0/kcs2 at 0: duplicate unit-address (also used in node /ahb/apb/lpc at 1e789000/lpc-bmc at 0/kcs3 at 0)
> arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g5.dtsi:405.19-410.8: Warning (unique_unit_address): /ahb/apb/lpc at 1e789000/lpc-host at 80/kcs4 at 0: duplicate unit-address (also used in node /ahb/apb/lpc at 1e789000/lpc-host at 80/lpc-ctrl at 0)
>
> Andrew
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