On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 07:39:21AM +0800, Guo Ren wrote:
> This patch adds the documentation to describe that how to add cpu nodes in
> dts for SMP.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <ren_guo@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/csky/cpus.txt | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/csky/cpus.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/csky/cpus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/csky/cpus.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..ee3901d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/csky/cpus.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
> +==================
> +C-SKY CPU Bindings
> +==================
> +
> +The device tree allows to describe the layout of CPUs in a system through
> +the "cpus" node, which in turn contains a number of subnodes (ie "cpu")
> +defining properties for every cpu.
> +
> +Only SMP system need to care about the cpus node and single processor
> +needn't define cpus node at all.
We've generally found this is not true. Even for single core, you can
have power domains, clocks for DVFS, etc.
> +
> +=====================================
> +cpus and cpu node bindings definition
> +=====================================
> +
> +- cpus node
> +
> + Description: Container of cpu nodes
> +
> + The node name must be "cpus".
> +
> + A cpus node must define the following properties:
> +
> + - #address-cells
> + Usage: required
> + Value type: <u32>
> + Definition: must be set to 1
> + - #size-cells
> + Usage: required
> + Value type: <u32>
> + Definition: must be set to 0
> +
> +- cpu node
> +
> + Description: Describes one of SMP cores
> +
> + PROPERTIES
> +
You need a compatible property for cpu nodes.
> + - device_type
> + Usage: required
> + Value type: <string>
> + Definition: must be "cpu"
> + - reg
> + Usage: required
> + Value type: <u32>
> + Definition: CPU index
> + - status:
You don't need to document status here.
> + Usage: required
> + Value type: <string>
> + Definition: "ok" means enable the cpu-core
> + "disabled" means disable the cpu-core
> +
> +Example:
> +--------
> +
> + cpus {
> + #address-cells = <1>;
> + #size-cells = <0>;
> + cpu@0 {
> + device_type = "cpu";
> + reg = <0>;
> + status = "ok";
> + };
> +
> + cpu@1 {
> + device_type = "cpu";
> + reg = <1>;
> + status = "ok";
> + };
> + };
> --
> 2.7.4
>
