[PATCH 15/16] Add device tree for Ebony

[Hartmut Penner]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote on 15.02.2007 
22:41:08:

> 
> > Is there a DCR binding?  Are the dcr-* properties documented 
> > anywhere:
> > 
> > dcr-reg         // what do these fields mean?
> > dcr-parent      // in case there is more than one controller??
> > dcr-controller
> > dcr-access-method = "native"   // what are the other options?
> 
> Yes, we wrote a binding document though I can't find it now. Hartmut or
> Heiko, do you have the latest DCR binding document at hand ?

I found some draft. It is as you discribed here. I need to check, how 
close this
is to what we did at last. Also we need place were we can publish such a 
document ...

> 
> dcr-reg is akin to "reg", it is a list of [dcr numbers, number of dcr]
> for a device.
> 
> dcr-parent is a phandle to the dcr "controller" or "master" that
> generate the DCR cycles
> 
> dcr-controller is like "interrupt-controller", it's a property to slap
> into any node that is also a dcr-controller. Typically, this can be the
> core for a 4xx processor or a separate device for Axon
> 
> dcr-access-method can be "native" for 4xx or "mmio" for Axon-type MMIO
> mapped DCR bus.
> 
> The parent linkage is necessary when using things ike Axon since more
> than one Axon can be present in a system, thus more than one MMIO->DCR
> "converters" providing each a separate DCR space for controller a
> separate set of devices.
> 
> Ben
> 
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