[PATCH v2 1/3] dmaengine: mpc512x: add device tree binding document

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Wed Jun 18 23:37:30 EST 2014


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:48:10AM +0100, Alexander Popov wrote:
> Introduce a device tree binding document for the MPC512x DMA controller
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <a13xp0p0v88 at gmail.com>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/dma/mpc512x-dma.txt        | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mpc512x-dma.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mpc512x-dma.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mpc512x-dma.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..95e2ca0
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mpc512x-dma.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
> +* Freescale MPC512x and MPC8308 DMA Controller
> +
> +The DMA controller in Freescale MPC512x and MPC8308 SoCs can move
> +blocks of memory contents between memory and peripherals or
> +from memory to memory.
> +
> +Refer to "Generic DMA Controller and DMA request bindings" in
> +the dma/dma.txt file for a more detailed description of binding.
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible: should be "fsl,mpc5121-dma" or "fsl,mpc8308-dma";
> +- reg: should contain the DMA controller registers location and length;
> +- interrupt for the DMA controller: syntax of interrupt client node
> +	is described in interrupt-controller/interrupts.txt file.
> +
> +Optional properties:
> +- #dma-cells: the length of the DMA specifier, must be <1>.
> +	Each channel of this DMA controller has a peripheral request line,
> +	the assignment is fixed in hardware. This one cell
> +	in dmas property of a client device represents the channel number.

Surely this is required to be able to refer to DMA channels on the
device?

Mark.


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