[PATCH 1/4] dt/bindings: Introduce the FSL QorIQ DPAA BMan

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Oct 29 05:08:58 AEDT 2014


On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 09:36 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Oct 22, 2014, at 9:09 AM, Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve at freescale.com> wrote:
> 
> > The Buffer Manager is part of the Data-Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA).
> > BMan supports hardware allocation and deallocation of buffers belonging to
> > pools originally created by software with configurable depletion thresholds.
> > This binding covers the CCSR space programming model
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve at Freescale.com>
> > Change-Id: I3ec479bfb3c91951e96902f091f5d7d2adbef3b2
> > ---
> > .../devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/bman.txt       | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 98 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/bman.txt
> 
> Should these really be in bindings/powerpc/fsl, aren’t you guys using this on ARM SoCs as well?

The hardware on the ARM SoCs is different enough that I'm not sure the
same binding will cover it.  That said, putting things under <arch>
should be a last resort if nowhere else fits.

-Scott




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