Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: serial: add documentation for the SiFive UART driver

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On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:45:57 PDT (-0700), robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 1:48 PM Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Add DT binding documentation for the Linux driver for the SiFive
asynchronous serial IP block.  Nothing too exotic.

Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-riscv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 .../bindings/serial/sifive-serial.txt         | 21 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/sifive-serial.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/sifive-serial.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/sifive-serial.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8982338512f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/sifive-serial.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+SiFive asynchronous serial interface (UART)
+
+Required properties:
+
+- compatible: should be "sifive,fu540-c000-uart0" or "sifive,uart0"

I assume once again, the last '0' is a version? As I mentioned for the
intc and now the pwm block bindings, if you are going to do version
numbers please document the versioning scheme. Palmer mentioned the
compatible string is part of the IP block repository? Where does the
number come from? What's the next version? Major vs. minor versions?
ECO fixes? Is the version s/w readable? How do you ensure it gets
updated? All that should be addressed.

The RISC-V ecosystem is a bit different than that of ARM, MIPS, or Intel in that the ISA is an royalty-free open standard that anyone can implement (ie, without even signing a license agreement), with only the "RISC-V" trademark being held behind a pay+conformance wall. As a result, we don't actually have any control over who builds a RISC-V chip so all we at SiFive can really to is try to demonstrate good practices in software land and go from there.

As far as SiFive's codebase is concerned, the version number is embedded in the RTL generator, and a device tree is generated along with the RTL. This device tree is then embedded into a mask ROM on the chip, which allows the earliest stage of boot to proceed. As I'm sure you know, boot is a very complicated process and as a result the device tree passed to Linux doesn't necessarily look like what's in the ROM, but the intent is to keep iterating until we can get these as similar as possible -- that's why we're submitting every devicetree binding to the standard.

Specifically as far as the UART is concerned, the compat string that's not chip-specific lives here (the "sifive,fu540-c000-uart" string lives in an internal chip repo that I can't point to):

   https://github.com/sifive/sifive-blocks/blob/master/src/main/scala/devices/uart/UART.scala#L43

The version numbering scheme right now is pretty simple: I try to pay as much attention as possible to how the hardware changes (both by looking and with some automation), and I go yell at anyone who does something stupid. I know it's not the most scalable of schemes, but it's the best we have. The UART is actually an interesting case right now because we have an outstanding pull request that adds a bit to the UART and then adds "sifive,uart1" to the compat string

   https://github.com/sifive/sifive-blocks/pull/90

My intent is to ensure that the device tree's compat string uniquely identifies the software interface to a block. Thus, whenever a device's implementation changes in a software-visible way (bug fix or feature addition) we change the compat string -- either adding one (as is the case of the UART, where the compat string will be both "sifive,uart1" and "sifive,uart0" since the new feature is backwards compatible with the old software) or changing one (if the interface change is not compatible with old software).

Like I said above, this is all a manual process right now and this only applies to SiFive's implementations. I'm confident that I can at least ensure that, for any given SiFive implementation, a block's compat string will uniquely identify the software interface to it. For the rest of the RISC-V world all we can do is set a good example and review the software.

Otherwise, don't do version numbers because we have no visibility to
what they mean.

+- reg: address and length of the register space
+- interrupt-parent: should contain a phandle pointing to the SoC interrupt
+    controller device node that the UART interrupts are connected to

Don't need to document interrupt-parent here.

+- interrupts: Should contain the UART interrupt identifier
+- clocks: Should contain a clock identifier for the UART's parent clock
+
+
+Example:
+
+uart0: serial@10010000 {
+       compatible = "sifive,uart0";
+       interrupt-parent = <&plic0>;
+       interrupts = <80>;
+       reg = <0x0 0x10010000 0x0 0x1000>;
+       clocks = <&prci PRCI_CLK_TLCLK>;
+};
--
2.19.1




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