Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] dt-bindings: aspeed: Add UART routing controller

From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Sep 16 2021 - 16:19:19 EST


On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 05:25:13PM +0800, Chia-Wei Wang wrote:
> Add dt-bindings for Aspeed UART routing controller.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oskar Senft <osk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Chia-Wei Wang <chiawei_wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/mfd/aspeed-lpc.yaml | 4 ++
> .../bindings/soc/aspeed/uart-routing.yaml | 70 +++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 74 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/aspeed/uart-routing.yaml
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/aspeed-lpc.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/aspeed-lpc.yaml
> index 54f080df5e2f..697331d840a0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/aspeed-lpc.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/aspeed-lpc.yaml
> @@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ patternProperties:
> - interrupts
> - snoop-ports
>
> + "^uart-routing@[0-9a-f]+$":
> + $ref: /schemas/soc/aspeed/uart-routing.yaml#
> + description: The UART routing control under LPC register space
> +
> required:
> - compatible
> - reg
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/aspeed/uart-routing.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/aspeed/uart-routing.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..534b2a9340ce
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/aspeed/uart-routing.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +# # Copyright (c) 2018 Google LLC
> +# # Copyright (c) 2021 Aspeed Technology Inc.
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: "http://devicetree.org/schemas/soc/aspeed/uart-routing.yaml#";
> +$schema: "http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#";
> +
> +title: Aspeed UART Routing Controller
> +
> +maintainers:
> + - Oskar Senft <osk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> + - Chia-Wei Wang <chiawei_wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +
> +description:
> + The Aspeed UART routing control allow to dynamically route the inputs for
> + the built-in UARTS and physical serial I/O ports.
> +
> + This allows, for example, to connect the output of UART to another UART.
> + This can be used to enable Host <-> BMC communication via UARTs, e.g. to
> + allow access to the Host's serial console.
> +
> + This driver is for the BMC side. The sysfs files allow the BMC userspace
> + which owns the system configuration policy, to configure how UARTs and
> + physical serial I/O ports are routed.
> +
> + Two types of files, uart* and io*, are presented in sysfs. The uart*
> + configures the input signal of a UART controller whereas io* configures
> + that of a physical serial port.
> +
> + When read, each file shows the list of available options with currently
> + selected option marked by brackets "[]". The list of available options
> + depends on the selected file.
> +
> + e.g.
> + cat /sys/bus/platform/drivers/aspeed-uart-routing/*.uart_routing/uart1
> + [io1] io2 io3 io4 uart2 uart3 uart4 io6
> +
> + In this case, UART1 gets its input from IO1 (physical serial port 1).

This is about documenting the hardware, not an OS driver.

sysfs files have their own documentation.

> +
> +properties:
> + compatible:
> + items:
> + - enum:
> + - aspeed,ast2400-uart-routing
> + - aspeed,ast2500-uart-routing
> + - aspeed,ast2600-uart-routing
> + reg:
> + maxItems: 1
> +
> +required:
> + - compatible
> +
> +additionalProperties: false
> +
> +examples:
> + - |
> + lpc: lpc@1e789000 {
> + compatible = "aspeed,ast2600-lpc-v2", "simple-mfd", "syscon";
> + reg = <0x1e789000 0x1000>;
> +
> + #address-cells = <1>;
> + #size-cells = <1>;
> + ranges = <0x0 0x1e789000 0x1000>;
> +
> + uart_routing: uart-routing@98 {
> + compatible = "aspeed,ast2600-uart-routing";
> + reg = <0x98 0x8>;
> + };
> + };
> --
> 2.17.1
>
>