[PATCH v2] QEMU fw_cfg DMA interface documentation

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Add fw_cfg DMA interface specfication in the fw_cfg documentation.

Signed-off-by: Marc Marí <markmb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt
index 953fb64..766ddbe 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt
@@ -45,6 +45,53 @@ blob to be read from the data register has size 4, and it is to be interpreted
 as a uint32_t value in little endian byte order. The current value
 (corresponding to the above outer protocol) is zero.
 
+If bit 1 of the feature bitmap is set, the DMA interface is present. This
+can be used through the 64-bit wide address register.
+
+The address register is in big-endian format. The value for the register is 0
+at startup and after an operation. A write to the lower half triggers an
+operation. This means, that operations with 32-bit addresses can be triggered
+with just one write, whereas operations with 64-bit addresses can be triggered
+with one 64-bit write or two 32-bit writes, starting with the higher part.
+
+In this register, a physical RAM address to a FWCfgDmaAccess structure should
+be written. This is the format of the FWCfgDmaAccess structure:
+
+typedef struct FWCfgDmaAccess {
+    uint32_t control;
+    uint32_t length;
+    uint64_t address;
+} FWCfgDmaAccess;
+
+The fields of the structure are in big endian mode, and the field at the lowest
+address is the "control" field.
+
+The "control" field has the following bits:
+ - Bit 0: Error
+ - Bit 1: Read
+ - Bit 2: Skip
+
+When an operation is triggered, if the "control" field has bit 1 set, a read
+operation will be performed. "length" bytes for the current selector and
+offset will be copied into the address specified by the "address" field.
+
+If the control field has only bit 2 set, a skip operation will be perfomed.
+The offset for the current selector will be advanced "length" bytes.
+
+To check result, read the "control" field:
+   error bit set        ->  something went wrong.
+   all bits cleared     ->  transfer finished successfully.
+   otherwise            ->  transfer still in progress (doesn't happen
+                            today due to implementation not being async,
+                            but may in the future).
+
+Target address goes up and transfer length goes down as the transfer happens,
+so after a successful transfer the length field is zero and the address field
+points right after the memory block written.
+
+If a partial transfer happened before an error occured the address and
+length registers indicate how much data has been transfered successfully.
+
 The guest kernel is not expected to use these registers (although it is
 certainly allowed to); the device tree bindings are documented here because
 this is where device tree bindings reside in general.
@@ -56,6 +103,8 @@ Required properties:
 - reg: the MMIO region used by the device.
   * Bytes 0x0 to 0x7 cover the data register.
   * Bytes 0x8 to 0x9 cover the selector register.
+  * With DMA interface enabled: Bytes 0xc to 0x13 cover the DMA address
+    register.
   * Further registers may be appended to the region in case of future interface
     revisions / feature bits.
 
@@ -66,7 +115,7 @@ Example:
 	#address-cells = <0x2>;
 
 	fw-cfg@9020000 {
+		reg = <0x0 0x9020000 0x0 0x14>;
 		compatible = "qemu,fw-cfg-mmio";
-		reg = <0x0 0x9020000 0x0 0xa>;
 	};
 };
-- 
2.4.3

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