Re: [PATCH v6 2/9] doc: DT: venus: binding document for Qualcomm video driver

From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Feb 21 2017 - 19:10:07 EST


On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 03:10:17PM +0200, Stanimir Varbanov wrote:
> Add binding document for Venus video encoder/decoder driver
>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes since previous v5:
> * dropped rproc phandle (remoteproc is not used anymore)
> * added subnodes paragraph with descrition of three subnodes:
> - video-decoder and video-encoder - describes decoder (core0) and
> encoder (core1) power-domains and clocks (applicable for msm8996
> Venus core).
> - video-firmware - needed to get reserved memory region where the
> firmware is stored.
>
> .../devicetree/bindings/media/qcom,venus.txt | 112 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 112 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/qcom,venus.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/qcom,venus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/qcom,venus.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..4427af3ca5a5
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/qcom,venus.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@

[...]

> +* Subnodes
> +The Venus node must contain three subnodes representing video-decoder,
> +video-encoder and video-firmware.

[...]

> +The video-firmware subnode should contain:
> +
> +- memory-region:
> + Usage: required
> + Value type: <phandle>
> + Definition: reference to the reserved-memory for the memory region
> +
> +* An Example
> + video-codec@1d00000 {
> + compatible = "qcom,msm8916-venus";
> + reg = <0x01d00000 0xff000>;
> + interrupts = <GIC_SPI 44 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> + clocks = <&gcc GCC_VENUS0_VCODEC0_CLK>,
> + <&gcc GCC_VENUS0_AHB_CLK>,
> + <&gcc GCC_VENUS0_AXI_CLK>;
> + clock-names = "core", "iface", "bus";
> + power-domains = <&gcc VENUS_GDSC>;
> + iommus = <&apps_iommu 5>;
> +
> + video-decoder {
> + compatible = "venus-decoder";
> + clocks = <&mmcc VIDEO_SUBCORE0_CLK>;
> + clock-names = "core";
> + power-domains = <&mmcc VENUS_CORE0_GDSC>;
> + };
> +
> + video-encoder {
> + compatible = "venus-encoder";
> + clocks = <&mmcc VIDEO_SUBCORE1_CLK>;
> + clock-names = "core";
> + power-domains = <&mmcc VENUS_CORE1_GDSC>;
> + };
> +
> + video-firmware {
> + memory-region = <&venus_mem>;

Why does this need to be a sub node?

Rob