The Buffer Manager is part of the Data-Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA).
BMan supports hardware allocation and deallocation of buffers belonging to
pools originally created by software with configurable depletion thresholds.
This binding covers the CCSR space programming model
Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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+QorIQ DPAA Buffer Manager Device Tree Bindings
+
+Copyright (C) 2008 - 2014 Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
+
+CONTENTS
+
+ - BMan Node
+ - BMan Private Memory Node
+ - Example
+
+NOTE: The bindings described in this document are preliminary and subject to
+ change
+
+BMan Node
+
+PROPERTIES
+
+- compatible
+ Usage: Required
+ Value type: <stringlist>
+ Definition: Must include "fsl,bman"
+ May include "fsl,<SoC>-bman"
+
+- reg
+ Usage: Required
+ Value type: <prop-encoded-array>
+ Definition: Registers region within the CCSR address space
+
+- fsl,liodn
+ Usage: See pamu.txt
+ Value type: <prop-encoded-array>
+ Definition: PAMU property used for static LIODN assignment
+
+- fsl,iommu-parent
+ Usage: See pamu.txt
+ Value type: <phandle>
+ Definition: PAMU property used for dynamic LIODN assignment
+
+ For additional details about the PAMU/LIODN binding(s) see pamu.txt
+
+BMan Private Memory Node
+
+BMan requires a contiguous range of physical memory used for the backing store
+for BMan Free Buffer Proxy Records. This memory is reserved/allocated as a node
+under the /reserved-memory node
+
+The BMan FBPR memory node must be named "bman-fbpr"
+
+PROPERTIES
+
+- compatible
+ Usage: required
+ Value type: <stringlist>
+ Definition: Must inclide "fsl,bman-fbpr"
+
+The following constraints are relevant to the FBPR private memory:
+ - The size must be 2^(size + 1), with size = 11..33. That is 4 KiB to
+ 16 GiB
+ - The alignment must be a muliptle of the memory size
+
+The size of the FBPR must be chosen by observing the hardware features configured
+via the RCW and that are relevant to a specific board (e.g. number of MAC(s)
+pinned-out, number of offline/host command FMan ports, etc.). The size configured
+in the DT must reflect the hardware capabilities and not the specific needs of an
+application
+
+If the memory reserved in the device tree proves to be larger then the needs of
+the application a BMan driver may provide a method to release the extra memory
+back to the OS
+
+For additional details about reserved memory regions see reserved-memory.txt
+
+EXAMPLE
+
+The example below shows a BMan FBPR dynamic allocation memory node
+
+ reserved-memory {
+ #address-cells = <2>;
+ #size-cells = <2>;
+ ranges;
+
+ bman-fbpr {
+ compatible = "fsl,bman-fbpr";
+ alloc-ranges = <0 0 0xf 0xffffffff>;
+ size = <0 0x1000000>;
+ alignment = <0 0x1000000>;
+ };
+
+ };
+
+The example below shows a (P4080) BMan CCSR-space node
+
+ bman@31a000 {
+ compatible = "fsl,bman";
+ reg = <0x31a000 0x1000>;
+ interrupts = <16 2 1 2>;
+ fsl,liodn = <0x17>;
+ };
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2.1.2
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