On Aug 20, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 08/20/13 07:41, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/msm_serial.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/msm_serial.txt
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..a6efac3
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/msm_serial.txt
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
>>> +* MSM Serial UART and UARTDM
>>> +
>>> +There are two MSM serial hardware designs. UARTDM is designed for use with a
>>> +dma engine in high-speed use cases and the non-DM design is for lower speed use
>>> +cases. The two designs are mostly compatible from a software perspective except
>>> +the non-DM design can only read and write one character at a time and so the
>>> +register layout differs slightly.
>> I think you split this into two binding spec docs, one for each type of uart.
>
> Should split into two files? I can do that.
yes.
>>> +UART
>>> +----
>>> +Required properties:
>>> +- compatible: Should contain "qcom,msm-uart"
>>> +- reg: Should contain UART register location and length. The first
>> first? is there more than one reg region?
?
>>> + register shall specify the main control registers
>>> +- interrupts: Should contain UART interrupt.
>>> +- clocks: Should contain the core clock.
>>> +- clock-names: Should be "core_clk".
>>> +
>>> +Optional properties:
>>> +- dmas: Should contain dma specifiers for transmit and receive
>>> +- dma-names: Should contain "tx" for transmit and "rx" for receive
>> confused, above you say the non-DM doesn't support DMA so, why the optional props?
>
> Ah sorry, copy pasta.
>
>>
>>> +
>>> +Example:
>>> +
>>> +A uart device with dma capabilities.
>>> +
>>> +serial@a9c00000 {
>>> + compatible = "qcom,msm-uart";
>>> + reg = <0xa9c00000 0x1000>;
>>> + interrupts = <11>;
>>> + clocks = <&uart_cxc>;
>>> + clock-names = "core_clk";
>>> + dmas = <&dma0 0>, <&dma0 1>;
>>> + dma-names = "tx", "rx";
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +UARTDM
>>> +------
>>> +Required properties:
>>> +- compatible: Should contain at least "qcom,msm-uartdm".
>>> + A more specific property should be specified as follows depending
>>> + on the version:
>>> + "qcom,msm-uartdm-v1.1"
>>> + "qcom,msm-uartdm-v1.2"
>>> + "qcom,msm-uartdm-v1.3"
>>> + "qcom,msm-uartdm-v1.4"
>>> +- reg: Should contain UART register locations and lengths. The first
>>> + register shall specify the main control registers. An optional second
>>> + register location shall specify the GSBI control region.
>> Is GSBI region existing tied to particular versions (if so can we say that)
>
> Not really. GSBI will always be related to v1.3 but not all v1.3
> hardware is part of a GSBI.
How about adding that into the binding.
>> reg-names?
>
> Optional should be fine? The driver is already handling this without
> reg-names.
>
>>> +- interrupts: Should contain UART interrupt.
>>> +- clocks: Should contain the core clock and the ahb clock.
>> nit, ahb in caps?
>
> Done.
- k
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