Re: [PATCH] coresight: bindings for coresight drivers

From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Sep 11 2014 - 18:04:24 EST


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:04 AM, <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Coresight IP blocks allow for the support of HW assisted tracing
> on ARM SoCs. Bindings for the currently available blocks are
> presented herein.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pratik Patel <pratikp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Panchaxari Prasannamurthy <panchaxari.prasannamurthy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>

One minor issue below, but this looks pretty good to me.

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt | 203 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 203 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..96dd947
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
> +* CoreSight Components:
> +
> +CoreSight components are compliant with the ARM CoreSight architecture
> +specification and can be connected in various topologies to suit a particular
> +SoCs tracing needs. These trace components can generally be classified as sinks,
> +links and sources. Trace data produced by one or more sources flows through the
> +intermediate links connecting the source to the currently selected sink. Each
> +CoreSight component device should use these properties to describe its hardware
> +characteristcs.
> +
> +* Required properties for all components *except* non-configurable replicators:
> +
> + * compatible: These have to be supplemented with "arm,primecell" as
> + drivers are using the AMBA bus interface. Possible values include:
> + - "arm,coresight-etb10", "arm,primecell";
> + - "arm,coresight-tpiu", "arm,primecell";
> + - "arm,coresight-tmc", "arm,primecell";
> + - "arm,coresight-funnel", "arm,primecell";
> + - "arm,coresight-etm3x", "arm,primecell";
> +
> + * reg: physical base address and length of the register
> + set(s) of the component.
> +
> + * clocks: the clock associated to this component.
> +
> + * clock-names: the name of the clock as referenced by the code.
> + Since we are using the AMBA framework, the name should be
> + "apb_pclk".
> +
> + * port or ports: The representation of the component's port
> + layout using the generic DT graph presentation found in
> + "bindings/graph.txt".
> +
> +* Required properties for devices that don't show up on the AMBA bus, such as
> + non-configurable replicators:
> +
> + * compatible: Currently supported value is (note the absence of the
> + AMBA markee):
> + - "arm,coresight-replicator"
> +
> + * id: a unique number that will identify this replicator.
> +
> + * port or ports: same as above.
> +
> +* Optional properties for ETM/PTMs:
> +
> + * arm,cp14: must be present if the system accesses ETM/PTM management registers
> + via co-processor 14.
> +
> + * cpu: the cpu phandle this ETM/PTM is affined to. When omitted the source is
> + considered to belong to CPU0.
> +
> +* Optional property for TMC:
> +
> + * arm,buffer-size: size of contiguous buffer space for TMC ETR
> + (embedded trace router)
> +
> +
> +Example:
> +
> +1. Sinks
> + etb@0,20010000 {

So we probably steered you wrong here, but a comma is only for when
you have different components like PCI bus, device, function for
addressing. So drop the comma here.

Rob
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