Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] dt-bindings: Add DT bindings info for FlexRM ring manager
From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Jan 04 2017 - 09:41:18 EST
On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 11:04:42AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> This patch adds device tree bindings document for the FlexRM
> ring manager found on Broadcom iProc SoCs.
>
> Reviewed-by: Ray Jui <ray.jui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../bindings/mailbox/brcm,iproc-flexrm-mbox.txt | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/brcm,iproc-flexrm-mbox.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/brcm,iproc-flexrm-mbox.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/brcm,iproc-flexrm-mbox.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..ca51a39
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/brcm,iproc-flexrm-mbox.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
> +Broadcom FlexRM Ring Manager
> +============================
> +The Broadcom FlexRM ring manager provides a set of rings which can be
> +used to submit work to offload engines. An SoC may have multiple FlexRM
> +hardware blocks. There is one device tree entry per FlexRM block. The
> +FlexRM driver will create a mailbox-controller instance for given FlexRM
> +hardware block where each mailbox channel is a separate FlexRM ring.
> +
> +Required properties:
> +--------------------
> +- compatible: Should be "brcm,iproc-flexrm-mbox"
> +- reg: Specifies base physical address and size of the FlexRM
> + ring registers
> +- msi-parent: Phandles (and potential Device IDs) to MSI controllers
> + The FlexRM engine will send MSIs (instead of wired
> + interrupts) to CPU. There is one MSI for each FlexRM ring.
> + Refer devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/msi.txt
> +- #mbox-cells: Specifies the number of cells needed to encode a mailbox
> + channel. This should be 3.
> +
> + The 1st cell is the mailbox channel number.
> +
> + The 2nd cell contains MSI completion threshold. This is the
> + number of completion messages for which FlexRM will inject
> + one MSI interrupt to CPU.
> +
> + The 3nd cell contains MSI timer value representing time for
> + which FlexRM will wait to accumulate N completion messages
> + where N is the value specified by 2nd cell above. If FlexRM
> + does not get required number of completion messages in time
> + specified by this cell then it will inject one MSI interrupt
> + to CPU provided atleast one completion message is available.
> +
> +Optional properties:
> +--------------------
> +- dma-coherent: Present if DMA operations made by the FlexRM engine (such
> + as DMA descriptor access, access to buffers pointed by DMA
> + descriptors and read/write pointer updates to DDR) are
> + cache coherent with the CPU.
> +
> +Example:
> +--------
> +crypto_mbox: mbox@67000000 {
> + compatible = "brcm,iproc-flexrm-mbox";
> + reg = <0x67000000 0x200000>;
> + msi-parent = <&gic_its 0x7f00>;
> + #mbox-cells = <3>;
> +};
> +
> +crypto_client {
crypto@<addr>
> + ...
> + mboxes = <&crypto_mbox 0 0x1 0xffff>,
> + <&crypto_mbox 1 0x1 0xffff>,
> + <&crypto_mbox 16 0x1 0xffff>,
> + <&crypto_mbox 17 0x1 0xffff>,
> + <&crypto_mbox 30 0x1 0xffff>,
> + <&crypto_mbox 31 0x1 0xffff>;
> + };
> + ...
Please somewhat fully list the contents for node.
Rob