[PATCH v3 2/3] devcietree: bindings: add some MFD Keymile FPGAs

Valentin Longchamp valentin.longchamp at keymile.com
Wed Apr 9 16:39:55 EST 2014


On 04/09/2014 02:44 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 14:41 +0100, Valentin Longchamp wrote:
>> These are the bindings for 2 MFD devices used on some of the Keymile boards.
>> The first one is the chassis managmenet bfticu FPGA.
>> The second one is the board controller (reset, LEDs, GPIOs) QRIO CPDL.
>> These FPGAs are used in the kmcoge4 board.
>>
>> This patch also add KEYMILE to the vendor-prefixes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Valentin Longchamp <valentin.longchamp at keymile.com>
>>
>> ---
>> Changes in v3:
>> - add a patch with the bindings for the KEYMILE FPGAs
>>
>> Changes in v2: None
>>
>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/bfticu.txt   | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/qriox.txt    | 17 ++++++++++++++
>>  .../devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt        |  1 +
>>  3 files changed, 44 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/bfticu.txt
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/qriox.txt
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/bfticu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/bfticu.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..92de32e
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/bfticu.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
>> +KEYMILE bfticu Chassis Management FPGA
>> +
>> +The bfticu is a multifunction device that manages the whole chassis.
>> +Its main functionality is to collect IRQs from the whole chassis and signals
>> +them to a single controller.
>> +
>> +Required properties:
>> +- compatible: "keymile,bfticu"
>> +- interrupt-controller: the bfticu FPGA is an interrupt controller
>> +- interrupts: the main IRQ line to signal the collected IRQs
>> +- #interrupt-cells : is 2
>> +	- The 1st cell is the local IRQ number on the bfticu
>> +	- The 2nd cell is the type of the IRQ (IRQ_TYPE_xxx)
> 
> Device tree bindings should not depend on the content of Linux headers.
> One is stable ABI, and the other isn't.
> 
> If you want you can make the values the same for convenience, as is done
> by IPIC, CPM PIC, etc -- but the values need to be explicitly stated in
> the binding.  It'll still break if the Linux values change (so it may
> not be a good idea to try to keep the values the same), but at least the
> fix would be in Linux code rather than an ABI change.

OK. I will then explicitly give the list of the values.

> 
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/qriox.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/qriox.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..f301e2d
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/qriox.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
>> +KEYMILE qrio Board Control CPLD
>> +
>> +The qrio is a multifunction device that controls the KEYMILE boards based on
>> +the kmp204x design.
>> +It is consists of a reset controller, watchdog timer, LEDs, and 2 IRQ capable
>> +GPIO blocks.
>> +
>> +Required properties:
>> +- compatible: "keymile,qriox"
>> +- reg: access on the parent local bus (chip select, offset in chip select, size)
>> +
>> +Example:
>> +
>> +	board-control at 1,0 {
>> +		compatible = "keymile,qriox";
>> +		reg = <1 0 0x80>;
>> +	};
> 
> If it has GPIO blocks, shouldn't it be using the GPIO binding?
> 

You are right it should. But this is currently being reworked (also in HW) and
that's why I left it out completely, instead of submitting something subject to
change.

Valentin


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