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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/common-properties.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/common-properties.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a3448bfa1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/common-properties.txt @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +Common properties +================= + +Endianness +---------- + +The Devicetree Specification does not define any properties related to hardware +byteswapping, but endianness issues show up frequently in porting Linux to +different machine types. This document attempts to provide a consistent +way of handling byteswapping across drivers. + +Optional properties: + - big-endian: Boolean; force big endian register accesses + unconditionally (e.g. ioread32be/iowrite32be). Use this if you + know the peripheral always needs to be accessed in BE mode. + - little-endian: Boolean; force little endian register accesses + unconditionally (e.g. readl/writel). Use this if you know the + peripheral always needs to be accessed in LE mode. + - native-endian: Boolean; always use register accesses matched to the + endianness of the kernel binary (e.g. LE vmlinux -> readl/writel, + BE vmlinux -> ioread32be/iowrite32be). In this case no byteswaps + will ever be performed. Use this if the hardware "self-adjusts" + register endianness based on the CPU's configured endianness. + +If a binding supports these properties, then the binding should also +specify the default behavior if none of these properties are present. +In such cases, little-endian is the preferred default, but it is not +a requirement. The of_device_is_big_endian() and of_fdt_is_big_endian() +helper functions do assume that little-endian is the default, because +most existing (PCI-based) drivers implicitly default to LE by using +readl/writel for MMIO accesses. + +Examples: +Scenario 1 : CPU in LE mode & device in LE mode. +dev: dev@40031000 { + compatible = "name"; + reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>; + ... + native-endian; +}; + +Scenario 2 : CPU in LE mode & device in BE mode. +dev: dev@40031000 { + compatible = "name"; + reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>; + ... + big-endian; +}; + +Scenario 3 : CPU in BE mode & device in BE mode. +dev: dev@40031000 { + compatible = "name"; + reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>; + ... + native-endian; +}; + +Scenario 4 : CPU in BE mode & device in LE mode. +dev: dev@40031000 { + compatible = "name"; + reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>; + ... + little-endian; +}; + +Daisy-chained devices +--------------------- + +Many serially-attached GPIO and IIO devices are daisy-chainable. To the +host controller, a daisy-chain appears as a single device, but the number +of inputs and outputs it provides is the sum of inputs and outputs provided +by all of its devices. The driver needs to know how many devices the +daisy-chain comprises to determine the amount of data exchanged, how many +inputs and outputs to register and so on. + +Optional properties: + - #daisy-chained-devices: Number of devices in the daisy-chain (default is 1). + +Example: +gpio@0 { + compatible = "name"; + reg = <0>; + gpio-controller; + #gpio-cells = <2>; + #daisy-chained-devices = <3>; +}; |