On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:03 AM Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This binding is intended to represent the relations between the interconnect
> controllers (providers) and consumer device nodes. It will allow creating links
> between consumers and interconnect paths (exposed by interconnect providers).
>
> Signed-off-by: Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
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> +Interconnect Provider Device Tree Bindings
> +=========================================
> +
> +The purpose of this document is to define a common set of generic interconnect
> +providers/consumers properties.
> +
> +
> += interconnect providers =
> +
> +The interconnect provider binding is intended to represent the interconnect
> +controllers in the system. Each provider registers a set of interconnect
> +nodes, which expose the interconnect related capabilities of the interconnect
> +to consumer drivers. These capabilities can be throughput, latency, priority
> +etc. The consumer drivers set constraints on interconnect path (or endpoints)
> +depending on the use case. Interconnect providers can also be interconnect
> +consumers, such as in the case where two network-on-chip fabrics interface
> +directly.
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible : contains the interconnect provider compatible string
> +- #interconnect-cells : number of cells in a interconnect specifier needed to
> + encode the interconnect node id
> +
> +Example:
> +
> + snoc: interconnect@580000 {
> + compatible = "qcom,msm8916-snoc";
> + #interconnect-cells = <1>;
> + reg = <0x580000 0x14000>;
> + clock-names = "bus_clk", "bus_a_clk";
> + clocks = <&rpmcc RPM_SMD_SNOC_CLK>,
> + <&rpmcc RPM_SMD_SNOC_A_CLK>;
> + };
> +
> +
> += interconnect consumers =
> +
> +The interconnect consumers are device nodes which dynamically express their
> +bandwidth requirements along interconnect paths they are connected to. There
> +can be multiple interconnect providers on a SoC and the consumer may consume
> +multiple paths from different providers depending on use case and the
> +components it has to interact with.
> +
> +Required properties:
> +interconnects : Pairs of phandles and interconnect provider specifier to denote
> + the edge source and destination ports of the interconnect path.
> +
> +Optional properties:
> +interconnect-names : List of interconnect path name strings sorted in the same
> + order as the interconnects property. Consumers drivers will use
> + interconnect-names to match interconnect paths with interconnect
> + specifier pairs.
> +
> +Example:
> +
> + sdhci@7864000 {
> + ...
> + interconnects = <&pnoc MASTER_SDCC_1 &bimc SLAVE_EBI_CH0>;
> + interconnect-names = "sdhc-ddr";
> + };
Reviewed-by: Evan Green <evgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
