Booting the Linux/ppc kernel without Open Firmware -------------------------------------------------- (c) 2005 Benjamin Herrenschmidt , IBM Corp. (c) 2005 Becky Bruce , Freescale Semiconductor, FSL SOC and 32-bit additions (c) 2006 MontaVista Software, Inc. Flash chip node definition Table of Contents ================= I - Introduction 1) Entry point for arch/powerpc 2) Board support II - The DT block format 1) Header 2) Device tree generalities 3) Device tree "structure" block 4) Device tree "strings" block III - Required content of the device tree 1) Note about cells and address representation 2) Note about "compatible" properties 3) Note about "name" properties 4) Note about node and property names and character set 5) Required nodes and properties a) The root node b) The /cpus node c) The /cpus/* nodes d) the /memory node(s) e) The /chosen node f) the /soc node IV - "dtc", the device tree compiler V - Recommendations for a bootloader VI - System-on-a-chip devices and nodes 1) Defining child nodes of an SOC 2) Representing devices without a current OF specification a) MDIO IO device b) Gianfar-compatible ethernet nodes c) PHY nodes d) Interrupt controllers e) I2C f) Freescale SOC USB controllers g) Freescale SOC SEC Security Engines h) Board Control and Status (BCSR) i) Freescale QUICC Engine module (QE) j) CFI or JEDEC memory-mapped NOR flash k) Global Utilities Block l) Freescale Communications Processor Module m) Chipselect/Local Bus n) 4xx/Axon EMAC ethernet nodes o) Xilinx IP cores p) Freescale Synchronous Serial Interface q) USB EHCI controllers r) MDIO on GPIOs s) SPI busses VII - Marvell Discovery mv64[345]6x System Controller chips 1) The /system-controller node 2) Child nodes of /system-controller a) Marvell Discovery MDIO bus b) Marvell Discovery ethernet controller c) Marvell Discovery PHY nodes d) Marvell Discovery SDMA nodes e) Marvell Discovery BRG nodes f) Marvell Discovery CUNIT nodes g) Marvell Discovery MPSCROUTING nodes h) Marvell Discovery MPSCINTR nodes i) Marvell Discovery MPSC nodes j) Marvell Discovery Watch Dog Timer nodes k) Marvell Discovery I2C nodes l) Marvell Discovery PIC (Programmable Interrupt Controller) nodes m) Marvell Discovery MPP (Multipurpose Pins) multiplexing nodes n) Marvell Discovery GPP (General Purpose Pins) nodes o) Marvell Discovery PCI host bridge node p) Marvell Discovery CPU Error nodes q) Marvell Discovery SRAM Controller nodes r) Marvell Discovery PCI Error Handler nodes s) Marvell Discovery Memory Controller nodes VIII - Specifying interrupt information for devices 1) interrupts property 2) interrupt-parent property 3) OpenPIC Interrupt Controllers 4) ISA Interrupt Controllers IX - Specifying GPIO information for devices 1) gpios property 2) gpio-controller nodes X - Specifying device power management information (sleep property) Appendix A - Sample SOC node for MPC8540 Revision Information ==================== May 18, 2005: Rev 0.1 - Initial draft, no chapter III yet. May 19, 2005: Rev 0.2 - Add chapter III and bits & pieces here or clarifies the fact that a lot of things are optional, the kernel only requires a very small device tree, though it is encouraged to provide an as complete one as possible. May 24, 2005: Rev 0.3 - Precise that DT block has to be in RAM - Misc fixes - Define version 3 and new format version 16 for the DT block (version 16 needs kernel patches, will be fwd separately). String block now has a size, and full path is replaced by unit name for more compactness. linux,phandle is made optional, only nodes that are referenced by other nodes need it. "name" property is now automatically deduced from the unit name June 1, 2005: Rev 0.4 - Correct confusion between OF_DT_END and OF_DT_END_NODE in structure definition. - Change version 16 format to always align property data to 4 bytes. Since tokens are already aligned, that means no specific required alignment between property size and property data. The old style variable alignment would make it impossible to do "simple" insertion of properties using memmove (thanks Milton for noticing). Updated kernel patch as well - Correct a few more alignment constraints - Add a chapter about the device-tree compiler and the textural representation of the tree that can be "compiled" by dtc. November 21, 2005: Rev 0.5 - Additions/generalizations for 32-bit - Changed to reflect the new arch/powerpc structure - Added chapter VI ToDo: - Add some definitions of interrupt tree (simple/complex) - Add some definitions for PCI host bridges - Add some common address format examples - Add definitions for standard properties and "compatible" names for cells that are not already defined by the existing OF spec. - Compare FSL SOC use of PCI to standard and make sure no new node definition required. - Add more information about node definitions for SOC devices that currently have no standard, like the FSL CPM. I - Introduction ================ During the recent development of the Linux/ppc64 kernel, and more specifically, the addition of new platform types outside of the old IBM pSeries/iSeries pair, it was decided to enforce some strict rules regarding the kernel entry and bootloader <-> kernel interfaces, in order to avoid the degeneration that had become the ppc32 kernel entry point and the way a new platform should be added to the kernel. The legacy iSeries platform breaks those rules as it predates this scheme, but no new board support will be accepted in the main tree that doesn't follows them properly. In addition, since the advent of the arch/powerpc merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64, new 32-bit platforms and 32-bit platforms which move into arch/powerpc will be required to use these rules as well. The main requirement that will be defined in more detail below is the presence of a device-tree whose format is defined after Open Firmware specification. However, in order to make life easier to embedded board vendors, the kernel doesn't require the device-tree to represent every device in the system and only requires some nodes and properties to be present. This will be described in detail in section III, but, for example, the kernel does not require you to create a node for every PCI device in the system. It is a requirement to have a node for PCI host bridges in order to provide interrupt routing informations and memory/IO ranges, among others. It is also recommended to define nodes for on chip devices and other busses that don't specifically fit in an existing OF specification. This creates a great flexibility in the way the kernel can then probe those and match drivers to device, without having to hard code all sorts of tables. It also makes it more flexible for board vendors to do minor hardware upgrades without significantly impacting the kernel code or cluttering it with special cases. 1) Entry point for arch/powerpc ------------------------------- There is one and one single entry point to the kernel, at the start of the kernel image. That entry point supports two calling conventions: a) Boot from Open Firmware. If your firmware is compatible with Open Firmware (IEEE 1275) or provides an OF compatible client interface API (support for "interpret" callback of forth words isn't required), you can enter the kernel with: r5 : OF callback pointer as defined by IEEE 1275 bindings to powerpc. Only the 32-bit client interface is currently supported r3, r4 : address & length of an initrd if any or 0 The MMU is either on or off; the kernel will run the trampoline located in arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c to extract the device-tree and other information from open firmware and build a flattened device-tree as described in b). prom_init() will then re-enter the kernel using the second method. This trampoline code runs in the context of the firmware, which is supposed to handle all exceptions during that time. b) Direct entry with a flattened device-tree block. This entry point is called by a) after the OF trampoline and can also be called directly by a bootloader that does not support the Open Firmware client interface. It is also used by "kexec" to implement "hot" booting of a new kernel from a previous running one. This method is what I will describe in more details in this document, as method a) is simply standard Open Firmware, and thus should be implemented according to the various standard documents defining it and its binding to the PowerPC platform. The entry point definition then becomes: r3 : physical pointer to the device-tree block (defined in chapter II) in RAM r4 : physical pointer to the kernel itself. This is used by the assembly code to properly disable the MMU in case you are entering the kernel with MMU enabled and a non-1:1 mapping. r5 : NULL (as to differentiate with method a) Note about SMP entry: Either your firmware puts your other CPUs in some sleep loop or spin loop in ROM where you can get them out via a soft reset or some other means, in which case you don't need to care, or you'll have to enter the kernel with all CPUs. The way to do that with method b) will be described in a later revision of this document. 2) Board support ---------------- 64-bit kernels: Board supports (platforms) are not exclusive config options. An arbitrary set of board supports can be built in a single kernel image. The kernel will "know" what set of functions to use for a given platform based on the content of the device-tree. Thus, you should: a) add your platform support as a _boolean_ option in arch/powerpc/Kconfig, following the example of PPC_PSERIES, PPC_PMAC and PPC_MAPLE. The later is probably a good example of a board support to start from. b) create your main platform file as "arch/powerpc/platforms/myplatform/myboard_setup.c" and add it to the Makefile under the condition of your CONFIG_ option. This file will define a structure of type "ppc_md" containing the various callbacks that the generic code will use to get to your platform specific code c) Add a reference to your "ppc_md" structure in the "machines" table in arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c if you are a 64-bit platform. d) request and get assigned a platform number (see PLATFORM_* constants in arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h 32-bit embedded kernels: Currently, board support is essentially an exclusive config option. The kernel is configured for a single platform. Part of the reason for this is to keep kernels on embedded systems small and efficient; part of this is due to the fact the code is already that way. In the future, a kernel may support multiple platforms, but only if the platforms feature the same core architecture. A single kernel build cannot support both configurations with Book E and configurations with classic Powerpc architectures. 32-bit embedded platforms that are moved into arch/powerpc using a flattened device tree should adopt the merged tree practice of setting ppc_md up dynamically, even though the kernel is currently built with support for only a single platform at a time. This allows unification of the setup code, and will make it easier to go to a multiple-platform-support model in the future. NOTE: I believe the above will be true once Ben's done with the merge of the boot sequences.... someone speak up if this is wrong! To add a 32-bit embedded platform support, follow the instructions for 64-bit platforms above, with the exception that the Kconfig option should be set up such that the kernel builds exclusively for the platform selected. The processor type for the platform should enable another config option to select the specific board supported. NOTE: If Ben doesn't merge the setup files, may need to change this to point to setup_32.c I will describe later the boot process and various callbacks that your platform should implement. II - The DT block format ======================== This chapter defines the actual format of the flattened device-tree passed to the kernel. The actual content of it and kernel requirements are described later. You can find example of code manipulating that format in various places, including arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c which will generate a flattened device-tree from the Open Firmware representation, or the fs2dt utility which is part of the kexec tools which will generate one from a filesystem representation. It is expected that a bootloader like uboot provides a bit more support, that will be discussed later as well. Note: The block has to be in main memory. It has to be accessible in both real mode and virtual mode with no mapping other than main memory. If you are writing a simple flash bootloader, it should copy the block to RAM before passing it to the kernel. 1) Header --------- The kernel is entered with r3 pointing to an area of memory that is roughly described in arch/powerpc/include/asm/prom.h by the structure boot_param_header: struct boot_param_header { u32 magic; /* magic word OF_DT_HEADER */ u32 totalsize; /* total size of DT block */ u32 off_dt_struct; /* offset to structure */ u32 off_dt_strings; /* offset to strings */ u32 off_mem_rsvmap; /* offset to memory reserve map */ u32 version; /* format version */ u32 last_comp_version; /* last compatible version */ /* version 2 fields below */ u32 boot_cpuid_phys; /* Which physical CPU id we're booting on */ /* version 3 fields below */ u32 size_dt_strings; /* size of the strings block */ /* version 17 fields below */ u32 size_dt_struct; /* size of the DT structure block */ }; Along with the constants: /* Definitions used by the flattened device tree */ #define OF_DT_HEADER 0xd00dfeed /* 4: version, 4: total size */ #define OF_DT_BEGIN_NODE 0x1 /* Start node: full name */ #define OF_DT_END_NODE 0x2 /* End node */ #define OF_DT_PROP 0x3 /* Property: name off, size, content */ #define OF_DT_END 0x9 All values in this header are in big endian format, the various fields in this header are defined more precisely below. All "offset" values are in bytes from the start of the header; that is from the value of r3. - magic This is a magic value that "marks" the beginning of the device-tree block header. It contains the value 0xd00dfeed and is defined by the constant OF_DT_HEADER - totalsize This is the total size of the DT block including the header. The "DT" block should enclose all data structures defined in this chapter (who are pointed to by offsets in this header). That is, the device-tree structure, strings, and the memory reserve map. - off_dt_struct This is an offset from the beginning of the header to the start of the "structure" part the device tree. (see 2) device tree) - off_dt_strings This is an offset from the beginning of the header to the start of the "strings" part of the device-tree - off_mem_rsvmap This is an offset from the beginning of the header to the start of the reserved memory map. This map is a list of pairs of 64- bit integers. Each pair is a physical address and a size. The list is terminated by an entry of size 0. This map provides the kernel with a list of physical memory areas that are "reserved" and thus not to be used for memory allocations, especially during early initialization. The kernel needs to allocate memory during boot for things like un-flattening the device-tree, allocating an MMU hash table, etc... Those allocations must be done in such a way to avoid overriding critical things like, on Open Firmware capable machines, the RTAS instance, or on some pSeries, the TCE tables used for the iommu. Typically, the reserve map should contain _at least_ this DT block itself (header,total_size). If you are passing an initrd to the kernel, you should reserve it as well. You do not need to reserve the kernel image itself. The map should be 64-bit aligned. - version This is the version of this structure. Version 1 stops here. Version 2 adds an additional field boot_cpuid_phys. Version 3 adds the size of the strings block, allowing the kernel to reallocate it easily at boot and free up the unused flattened structure after expansion. Version 16 introduces a new more "compact" format for the tree itself that is however not backward compatible. Version 17 adds an additional field, size_dt_struct, allowing it to be reallocated or moved more easily (this is particularly useful for bootloaders which need to make adjustments to a device tree based on probed information). You should always generate a structure of the highest version defined at the time of your implementation. Currently that is version 17, unless you explicitly aim at being backward compatible. - last_comp_version Last compatible version. This indicates down to what version of the DT block you are backward compatible. For example, version 2 is backward compatible with version 1 (that is, a kernel build for version 1 will be able to boot with a version 2 format). You should put a 1 in this field if you generate a device tree of version 1 to 3, or 16 if you generate a tree of version 16 or 17 using the new unit name format. - boot_cpuid_phys This field only exist on version 2 headers. It indicate which physical CPU ID is calling the kernel entry point. This is used, among others, by kexec. If you are on an SMP system, this value should match the content of the "reg" property of the CPU node in the device-tree corresponding to the CPU calling the kernel entry point (see further chapters for more informations on the required device-tree contents) - size_dt_strings This field only exists on version 3 and later headers. It gives the size of the "strings" section of the device tree (which starts at the offset given by off_dt_strings). - size_dt_struct This field only exists on version 17 and later headers. It gives the size of the "structure" section of the device tree (which starts at the offset given by off_dt_struct). So the typical layout of a DT block (though the various parts don't need to be in that order) looks like this (addresses go from top to bottom): ------------------------------ r3 -> | struct boot_param_header | ------------------------------ | (alignment gap) (*) | ------------------------------ | memory reserve map | ------------------------------ | (alignment gap) | ------------------------------ | | | device-tree structure | | | ------------------------------ | (alignment gap) | ------------------------------ | | | device-tree strings | | | -----> ------------------------------ | | --- (r3 + totalsize) (*) The alignment gaps are not necessarily present; their presence and size are dependent on the various alignment requirements of the individual data blocks. 2) Device tree generalities --------------------------- This device-tree itself is separated in two different blocks, a structure block and a strings block. Both need to be aligned to a 4 byte boundary. First, let's quickly describe the device-tree concept before detailing the storage format. This chapter does _not_ describe the detail of the required types of nodes & properties for the kernel, this is done later in chapter III. The device-tree layout is strongly inherited from the definition of the Open Firmware IEEE 1275 device-tree. It's basically a tree of nodes, each node having two or more named properties. A property can have a value or not. It is a tree, so each node has one and only one parent except for the root node who has no parent. A node has 2 names. The actual node name is generally contained in a property of type "name" in the node property list whose value is a zero terminated string and is mandatory for version 1 to 3 of the format definition (as it is in Open Firmware). Version 16 makes it optional as it can generate it from the unit name defined below. There is also a "unit name" that is used to differentiate nodes with the same name at the same level, it is usually made of the node names, the "@" sign, and a "unit address", which definition is specific to the bus type the node sits on. The unit name doesn't exist as a property per-se but is included in the device-tree structure. It is typically used to represent "path" in the device-tree. More details about the actual format of these will be below. The kernel powerpc generic code does not make any formal use of the unit address (though some board support code may do) so the only real requirement here for the unit address is to ensure uniqueness of the node unit name at a given level of the tree. Nodes with no notion of address and no possible sibling of the same name (like /memory or /cpus) may omit the unit address in the context of this specification, or use the "@0" default unit address. The unit name is used to define a node "full path", which is the concatenation of all parent node unit names separated with "/". The root node doesn't have a defined name, and isn't required to have a name property either if you are using version 3 or earlier of the format. It also has no unit address (no @ symbol followed by a unit address). The root node unit name is thus an empty string. The full path to the root node is "/". Every node which actually represents an actual device (that is, a node which isn't only a virtual "container" for more nodes, like "/cpus" is) is also required to have a "device_type" property indicating the type of node . Finally, every node that can be referenced from a property in another node is required to have a "linux,phandle" property. Real open firmware implementations provide a unique "phandle" value for every node that the "prom_init()" trampoline code turns into "linux,phandle" properties. However, this is made optional if the flattened device tree is used directly. An example of a node referencing another node via "phandle" is when laying out the interrupt tree which will be described in a further version of this document. This "linux, phandle" property is a 32-bit value that uniquely identifies a node. You are free to use whatever values or system of values, internal pointers, or whatever to generate these, the only requirement is that every node for which you provide that property has a unique value for it. Here is an example of a simple device-tree. In this example, an "o" designates a node followed by the node unit name. Properties are presented with their name followed by their content. "content" represents an ASCII string (zero terminated) value, while represents a 32-bit hexadecimal value. The various nodes in this example will be discussed in a later chapter. At this point, it is only meant to give you a idea of what a device-tree looks like. I have purposefully kept the "name" and "linux,phandle" properties which aren't necessary in order to give you a better idea of what the tree looks like in practice. / o device-tree |- name = "device-tree" |- model = "MyBoardName" |- compatible = "MyBoardFamilyName" |- #address-cells = <2> |- #size-cells = <2> |- linux,phandle = <0> | o cpus | | - name = "cpus" | | - linux,phandle = <1> | | - #address-cells = <1> | | - #size-cells = <0> | | | o PowerPC,970@0 | |- name = "PowerPC,970" | |- device_type = "cpu" | |- reg = <0> | |- clock-frequency = <5f5e1000> | |- 64-bit | |- linux,phandle = <2> | o memory@0 | |- name = "memory" | |- device_type = "memory" | |- reg = <00000000 00000000 00000000 20000000> | |- linux,phandle = <3> | o chosen |- name = "chosen" |- bootargs = "root=/dev/sda2" |- linux,phandle = <4> This tree is almost a minimal tree. It pretty much contains the minimal set of required nodes and properties to boot a linux kernel; that is, some basic model informations at the root, the CPUs, and the physical memory layout. It also includes misc information passed through /chosen, like in this example, the platform type (mandatory) and the kernel command line arguments (optional). The /cpus/PowerPC,970@0/64-bit property is an example of a property without a value. All other properties have a value. The significance of the #address-cells and #size-cells properties will be explained in chapter IV which defines precisely the required nodes and properties and their content. 3) Device tree "structure" block The structure of the device tree is a linearized tree structure. The "OF_DT_BEGIN_NODE" token starts a new node, and the "OF_DT_END_NODE" ends that node definition. Child nodes are simply defined before "OF_DT_END_NODE" (that is nodes within the node). A 'token' is a 32 bit value. The tree has to be "finished" with a OF_DT_END token Here's the basic structure of a single node: * token OF_DT_BEGIN_NODE (that is 0x00000001) * for version 1 to 3, this is the node full path as a zero terminated string, starting with "/". For version 16 and later, this is the node unit name only (or an empty string for the root node) * [align gap to next 4 bytes boundary] * for each property: * token OF_DT_PROP (that is 0x00000003) * 32-bit value of property value size in bytes (or 0 if no value) * 32-bit value of offset in string block of property name * property value data if any * [align gap to next 4 bytes boundary] * [child nodes if any] * token OF_DT_END_NODE (that is 0x00000002) So the node content can be summarized as a start token, a full path, a list of properties, a list of child nodes, and an end token. Every child node is a full node structure itself as defined above. NOTE: The above definition requires that all property definitions for a particular node MUST precede any subnode definitions for that node. Although the structure would not be ambiguous if properties and subnodes were intermingled, the kernel parser requires that the properties come first (up until at least 2.6.22). Any tools manipulating a flattened tree must take care to preserve this constraint. 4) Device tree "strings" block In order to save space, property names, which are generally redundant, are stored separately in the "strings" block. This block is simply the whole bunch of zero terminated strings for all property names concatenated together. The device-tree property definitions in the structure block will contain offset values from the beginning of the strings block. III - Required content of the device tree ========================================= WARNING: All "linux,*" properties defined in this document apply only to a flattened device-tree. If your platform uses a real implementation of Open Firmware or an implementation compatible with the Open Firmware client interface, those properties will be created by the trampoline code in the kernel's prom_init() file. For example, that's where you'll have to add code to detect your board model and set the platform number. However, when using the flattened device-tree entry point, there is no prom_init() pass, and thus you have to provide those properties yourself. 1) Note about cells and address representation ---------------------------------------------- The general rule is documented in the various Open Firmware documentations. If you choose to describe a bus with the device-tree and there exist an OF bus binding, then you should follow the specification. However, the kernel does not require every single device or bus to be described by the device tree. In general, the format of an address for a device is defined by the parent bus type, based on the #address-cells and #size-cells properties. Note that the parent's parent definitions of #address-cells and #size-cells are not inherited so every node with children must specify them. The kernel requires the root node to have those properties defining addresses format for devices directly mapped on the processor bus. Those 2 properties define 'cells' for representing an address and a size. A "cell" is a 32-bit number. For example, if both contain 2 like the example tree given above, then an address and a size are both composed of 2 cells, and each is a 64-bit number (cells are concatenated and expected to be in big endian format). Another example is the way Apple firmware defines them, with 2 cells for an address and one cell for a size. Most 32-bit implementations should define #address-cells and #size-cells to 1, which represents a 32-bit value. Some 32-bit processors allow for physical addresses greater than 32 bits; these processors should define #address-cells as 2. "reg" properties are always a tuple of the type "address size" where the number of cells of address and size is specified by the bus #address-cells and #size-cells. When a bus supports various address spaces and other flags relative to a given address allocation (like prefetchable, etc...) those flags are usually added to the top level bits of the physical address. For example, a PCI physical address is made of 3 cells, the bottom two containing the actual address itself while the top cell contains address space indication, flags, and pci bus & device numbers. For busses that support dynamic allocation, it's the accepted practice to then not provide the address in "reg" (keep it 0) though while providing a flag indicating the address is dynamically allocated, and then, to provide a separate "assigned-addresses" property that contains the fully allocated addresses. See the PCI OF bindings for details. In general, a simple bus with no address space bits and no dynamic allocation is preferred if it reflects your hardware, as the existing kernel address parsing functions will work out of the box. If you define a bus type with a more complex address format, including things like address space bits, you'll have to add a bus translator to the prom_parse.c file of the recent kernels for your bus type. The "reg" property only defines addresses and sizes (if #size-cells is non-0) within a given bus. In order to translate addresses upward (that is into parent bus addresses, and possibly into CPU physical addresses), all busses must contain a "ranges" property. If the "ranges" property is missing at a given level, it's assumed that translation isn't possible, i.e., the registers are not visible on the parent bus. The format of the "ranges" property for a bus is a list of: bus address, parent bus address, size "bus address" is in the format of the bus this bus node is defining, that is, for a PCI bridge, it would be a PCI address. Thus, (bus address, size) defines a range of addresses for child devices. "parent bus address" is in the format of the parent bus of this bus. For example, for a PCI host controller, that would be a CPU address. For a PCI<->ISA bridge, that would be a PCI address. It defines the base address in the parent bus where the beginning of that range is mapped. For a new 64-bit powerpc board, I recommend either the 2/2 format or Apple's 2/1 format which is slightly more compact since sizes usually fit in a single 32-bit word. New 32-bit powerpc boards should use a 1/1 format, unless the processor supports physical addresses greater than 32-bits, in which case a 2/1 format is recommended. Alternatively, the "ranges" property may be empty, indicating that the registers are visible on the parent bus using an identity mapping translation. In other words, the parent bus address space is the same as the child bus address space. 2) Note about "compatible" properties ------------------------------------- These properties are optional, but recommended in devices and the root node. The format of a "compatible" property is a list of concatenated zero terminated strings. They allow a device to express its compatibility with a family of similar devices, in some cases, allowing a single driver to match against several devices regardless of their actual names. 3) Note about "name" properties ------------------------------- While earlier users of Open Firmware like OldWorld macintoshes tended to use the actual device name for the "name" property, it's nowadays considered a good practice to use a name that is closer to the device class (often equal to device_type). For example, nowadays, ethernet controllers are named "ethernet", an additional "model" property defining precisely the chip type/model, and "compatible" property defining the family in case a single driver can driver more than one of these chips. However, the kernel doesn't generally put any restriction on the "name" property; it is simply considered good practice to follow the standard and its evolutions as closely as possible. Note also that the new format version 16 makes the "name" property optional. If it's absent for a node, then the node's unit name is then used to reconstruct the name. That is, the part of the unit name before the "@" sign is used (or the entire unit name if no "@" sign is present). 4) Note about node and property names and character set ------------------------------------------------------- While open firmware provides more flexible usage of 8859-1, this specification enforces more strict rules. Nodes and properties should be comprised only of ASCII characters 'a' to 'z', '0' to '9', ',', '.', '_', '+', '#', '?', and '-'. Node names additionally allow uppercase characters 'A' to 'Z' (property names should be lowercase. The fact that vendors like Apple don't respect this rule is irrelevant here). Additionally, node and property names should always begin with a character in the range 'a' to 'z' (or 'A' to 'Z' for node names). The maximum number of characters for both nodes and property names is 31. In the case of node names, this is only the leftmost part of a unit name (the pure "name" property), it doesn't include the unit address which can extend beyond that limit. 5) Required nodes and properties -------------------------------- These are all that are currently required. However, it is strongly recommended that you expose PCI host bridges as documented in the PCI binding to open firmware, and your interrupt tree as documented in OF interrupt tree specification. a) The root node The root node requires some properties to be present: - model : this is your board name/model - #address-cells : address representation for "root" devices - #size-cells: the size representation for "root" devices - device_type : This property shouldn't be necessary. However, if you decide to create a device_type for your root node, make sure it is _not_ "chrp" unless your platform is a pSeries or PAPR compliant one for 64-bit, or a CHRP-type machine for 32-bit as this will matched by the kernel this way. Additionally, some recommended properties are: - compatible : the board "family" generally finds its way here, for example, if you have 2 board models with a similar layout, that typically get driven by the same platform code in the kernel, you would use a different "model" property but put a value in "compatible". The kernel doesn't directly use that value but it is generally useful. The root node is also generally where you add additional properties specific to your board like the serial number if any, that sort of thing. It is recommended that if you add any "custom" property whose name may clash with standard defined ones, you prefix them with your vendor name and a comma. b) The /cpus node This node is the parent of all individual CPU nodes. It doesn't have any specific requirements, though it's generally good practice to have at least: #address-cells = <00000001> #size-cells = <00000000> This defines that the "address" for a CPU is a single cell, and has no meaningful size. This is not necessary but the kernel will assume that format when reading the "reg" properties of a CPU node, see below c) The /cpus/* nodes So under /cpus, you are supposed to create a node for every CPU on the machine. There is no specific restriction on the name of the CPU, though It's common practice to call it PowerPC,. For example, Apple uses PowerPC,G5 while IBM uses PowerPC,970FX. Required properties: - device_type : has to be "cpu" - reg : This is the physical CPU number, it's a single 32-bit cell and is also used as-is as the unit number for constructing the unit name in the full path. For example, with 2 CPUs, you would have the full path: /cpus/PowerPC,970FX@0 /cpus/PowerPC,970FX@1 (unit addresses do not require leading zeroes) - d-cache-block-size : one cell, L1 data cache block size in bytes (*) - i-cache-block-size : one cell, L1 instruction cache block size in bytes - d-cache-size : one cell, size of L1 data cache in bytes - i-cache-size : one cell, size of L1 instruction cache in bytes (*) The cache "block" size is the size on which the cache management instructions operate. Historically, this document used the cache "line" size here which is incorrect. The kernel will prefer the cache block size and will fallback to cache line size for backward compatibility. Recommended properties: - timebase-frequency : a cell indicating the frequency of the timebase in Hz. This is not directly used by the generic code, but you are welcome to copy/paste the pSeries code for setting the kernel timebase/decrementer calibration based on this value. - clock-frequency : a cell indicating the CPU core clock frequency in Hz. A new property will be defined for 64-bit values, but if your frequency is < 4Ghz, one cell is enough. Here as well as for the above, the common code doesn't use that property, but you are welcome to re-use the pSeries or Maple one. A future kernel version might provide a common function for this. - d-cache-line-size : one cell, L1 data cache line size in bytes if different from the block size - i-cache-line-size : one cell, L1 instruction cache line size in bytes if different from the block size You are welcome to add any property you find relevant to your board, like some information about the mechanism used to soft-reset the CPUs. For example, Apple puts the GPIO number for CPU soft reset lines in there as a "soft-reset" property since they start secondary CPUs by soft-resetting them. d) the /memory node(s) To define the physical memory layout of your board, you should create one or more memory node(s). You can either create a single node with all memory ranges in its reg property, or you can create several nodes, as you wish. The unit address (@ part) used for the full path is the address of the first range of memory defined by a given node. If you use a single memory node, this will typically be @0. Required properties: - device_type : has to be "memory" - reg : This property contains all the physical memory ranges of your board. It's a list of addresses/sizes concatenated together, with the number of cells of each defined by the #address-cells and #size-cells of the root node. For example, with both of these properties being 2 like in the example given earlier, a 970 based machine with 6Gb of RAM could typically have a "reg" property here that looks like: 00000000 00000000 00000000 80000000 00000001 00000000 00000001 00000000 That is a range starting at 0 of 0x80000000 bytes and a range starting at 0x100000000 and of 0x100000000 bytes. You can see that there is no memory covering the IO hole between 2Gb and 4Gb. Some vendors prefer splitting those ranges into smaller segments, but the kernel doesn't care. e) The /chosen node This node is a bit "special". Normally, that's where open firmware puts some variable environment information, like the arguments, or the default input/output devices. This specification makes a few of these mandatory, but also defines some linux-specific properties that would be normally constructed by the prom_init() trampoline when booting with an OF client interface, but that you have to provide yourself when using the flattened format. Recommended properties: - bootargs : This zero-terminated string is passed as the kernel command line - linux,stdout-path : This is the full path to your standard console device if any. Typically, if you have serial devices on your board, you may want to put the full path to the one set as the default console in the firmware here, for the kernel to pick it up as its own default console. If you look at the function set_preferred_console() in arch/ppc64/kernel/setup.c, you'll see that the kernel tries to find out the default console and has knowledge of various types like 8250 serial ports. You may want to extend this function to add your own. Note that u-boot creates and fills in the chosen node for platforms that use it. (Note: a practice that is now obsolete was to include a property under /chosen called interrupt-controller which had a phandle value that pointed to the main interrupt controller) f) the /soc node This node is used to represent a system-on-a-chip (SOC) and must be present if the processor is a SOC. The top-level soc node contains information that is global to all devices on the SOC. The node name should contain a unit address for the SOC, which is the base address of the memory-mapped register set for the SOC. The name of an soc node should start with "soc", and the remainder of the name should represent the part number for the soc. For example, the MPC8540's soc node would be called "soc8540". Required properties: - device_type : Should be "soc" - ranges : Should be defined as specified in 1) to describe the translation of SOC addresses for memory mapped SOC registers. - bus-frequency: Contains the bus frequency for the SOC node. Typically, the value of this field is filled in by the boot loader. Recommended properties: - reg : This property defines the address and size of the memory-mapped registers that are used for the SOC node itself. It does not include the child device registers - these will be defined inside each child node. The address specified in the "reg" property should match the unit address of the SOC node. - #address-cells : Address representation for "soc" devices. The format of this field may vary depending on whether or not the device registers are memory mapped. For memory mapped registers, this field represents the number of cells needed to represent the address of the registers. For SOCs that do not use MMIO, a special address format should be defined that contains enough cells to represent the required information. See 1) above for more details on defining #address-cells. - #size-cells : Size representation for "soc" devices - #interrupt-cells : Defines the width of cells used to represent interrupts. Typically this value is <2>, which includes a 32-bit number that represents the interrupt number, and a 32-bit number that represents the interrupt sense and level. This field is only needed if the SOC contains an interrupt controller. The SOC node may contain child nodes for each SOC device that the platform uses. Nodes should not be created for devices which exist on the SOC but are not used by a particular platform. See chapter VI for more information on how to specify devices that are part of a SOC. Example SOC node for the MPC8540: soc8540@e0000000 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; #interrupt-cells = <2>; device_type = "soc"; ranges = <00000000 e0000000 00100000> reg = ; bus-frequency = <0>; } IV - "dtc", the device tree compiler ==================================== dtc source code can be found at WARNING: This version is still in early development stage; the resulting device-tree "blobs" have not yet been validated with the kernel. The current generated bloc lacks a useful reserve map (it will be fixed to generate an empty one, it's up to the bootloader to fill it up) among others. The error handling needs work, bugs are lurking, etc... dtc basically takes a device-tree in a given format and outputs a device-tree in another format. The currently supported formats are: Input formats: ------------- - "dtb": "blob" format, that is a flattened device-tree block with header all in a binary blob. - "dts": "source" format. This is a text file containing a "source" for a device-tree. The format is defined later in this chapter. - "fs" format. This is a representation equivalent to the output of /proc/device-tree, that is nodes are directories and properties are files Output formats: --------------- - "dtb": "blob" format - "dts": "source" format - "asm": assembly language file. This is a file that can be sourced by gas to generate a device-tree "blob". That file can then simply be added to your Makefile. Additionally, the assembly file exports some symbols that can be used. The syntax of the dtc tool is dtc [-I ] [-O ] [-o output-filename] [-V output_version] input_filename The "output_version" defines what version of the "blob" format will be generated. Supported versions are 1,2,3 and 16. The default is currently version 3 but that may change in the future to version 16. Additionally, dtc performs various sanity checks on the tree, like the uniqueness of linux, phandle properties, validity of strings, etc... The format of the .dts "source" file is "C" like, supports C and C++ style comments. / { } The above is the "device-tree" definition. It's the only statement supported currently at the toplevel. / { property1 = "string_value"; /* define a property containing a 0 * terminated string */ property2 = <1234abcd>; /* define a property containing a * numerical 32-bit value (hexadecimal) */ property3 = <12345678 12345678 deadbeef>; /* define a property containing 3 * numerical 32-bit values (cells) in * hexadecimal */ property4 = [0a 0b 0c 0d de ea ad be ef]; /* define a property whose content is * an arbitrary array of bytes */ childnode@addresss { /* define a child node named "childnode" * whose unit name is "childnode at * address" */ childprop = "hello\n"; /* define a property "childprop" of * childnode (in this case, a string) */ }; }; Nodes can contain other nodes etc... thus defining the hierarchical structure of the tree. Strings support common escape sequences from C: "\n", "\t", "\r", "\(octal value)", "\x(hex value)". It is also suggested that you pipe your source file through cpp (gcc preprocessor) so you can use #include's, #define for constants, etc... Finally, various options are planned but not yet implemented, like automatic generation of phandles, labels (exported to the asm file so you can point to a property content and change it easily from whatever you link the device-tree with), label or path instead of numeric value in some cells to "point" to a node (replaced by a phandle at compile time), export of reserve map address to the asm file, ability to specify reserve map content at compile time, etc... We may provide a .h include file with common definitions of that proves useful for some properties (like building PCI properties or interrupt maps) though it may be better to add a notion of struct definitions to the compiler... V - Recommendations for a bootloader ==================================== Here are some various ideas/recommendations that have been proposed while all this has been defined and implemented. - The bootloader may want to be able to use the device-tree itself and may want to manipulate it (to add/edit some properties, like physical memory size or kernel arguments). At this point, 2 choices can be made. Either the bootloader works directly on the flattened format, or the bootloader has its own internal tree representation with pointers (similar to the kernel one) and re-flattens the tree when booting the kernel. The former is a bit more difficult to edit/modify, the later requires probably a bit more code to handle the tree structure. Note that the structure format has been designed so it's relatively easy to "insert" properties or nodes or delete them by just memmoving things around. It contains no internal offsets or pointers for this purpose. - An example of code for iterating nodes & retrieving properties directly from the flattened tree format can be found in the kernel file arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c, look at scan_flat_dt() function, its usage in early_init_devtree(), and the corresponding various early_init_dt_scan_*() callbacks. That code can be re-used in a GPL bootloader, and as the author of that code, I would be happy to discuss possible free licensing to any vendor who wishes to integrate all or part of this code into a non-GPL bootloader. VI - System-on-a-chip devices and nodes ======================================= Many companies are now starting to develop system-on-a-chip processors, where the processor core (CPU) and many peripheral devices exist on a single piece of silicon. For these SOCs, an SOC node should be used that defines child nodes for the devices that make up the SOC. While platforms are not required to use this model in order to boot the kernel, it is highly encouraged that all SOC implementations define as complete a flat-device-tree as possible to describe the devices on the SOC. This will allow for the genericization of much of the kernel code. 1) Defining child nodes of an SOC --------------------------------- Each device that is part of an SOC may have its own node entry inside the SOC node. For each device that is included in the SOC, the unit address property represents the address offset for this device's memory-mapped registers in the parent's address space. The parent's address space is defined by the "ranges" property in the top-level soc node. The "reg" property for each node that exists directly under the SOC node should contain the address mapping from the child address space to the parent SOC address space and the size of the device's memory-mapped register file. For many devices that may exist inside an SOC, there are predefined specifications for the format of the device tree node. All SOC child nodes should follow these specifications, except where noted in this document. See appendix A for an example partial SOC node definition for the MPC8540. 2) Representing devices without a current OF specification ---------------------------------------------------------- Currently, there are many devices on SOCs that do not have a standard representation pre-defined as part of the open firmware specifications, mainly because the boards that contain these SOCs are not currently booted using open firmware. This section contains descriptions for the SOC devices for which new nodes have been defined; this list will expand as more and more SOC-containing platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model. a) PHY nodes Required properties: - device_type : Should be "ethernet-phy" - interrupts : where a is the interrupt number and b is a field that represents an encoding of the sense and level information for the interrupt. This should be encoded based on the information in section 2) depending on the type of interrupt controller you have. - interrupt-parent : the phandle for the interrupt controller that services interrupts for this device. - reg : The ID number for the phy, usually a small integer - linux,phandle : phandle for this node; likely referenced by an ethernet controller node. Example: ethernet-phy@0 { linux,phandle = <2452000> interrupt-parent = <40000>; interrupts = <35 1>; reg = <0>; device_type = "ethernet-phy"; }; b) Interrupt controllers Some SOC devices contain interrupt controllers that are different from the standard Open PIC specification. The SOC device nodes for these types of controllers should be specified just like a standard OpenPIC controller. Sense and level information should be encoded as specified in section 2) of this chapter for each device that specifies an interrupt. Example : pic@40000 { linux,phandle = <40000>; interrupt-controller; #address-cells = <0>; reg = <40000 40000>; compatible = "chrp,open-pic"; device_type = "open-pic"; }; c) CFI or JEDEC memory-mapped NOR flash Flash chips (Memory Technology Devices) are often used for solid state file systems on embedded devices. - compatible : should contain the specific model of flash chip(s) used, if known, followed by either "cfi-flash" or "jedec-flash" - reg : Address range of the flash chip - bank-width : Width (in bytes) of the flash bank. Equal to the device width times the number of interleaved chips. - device-width : (optional) Width of a single flash chip. If omitted, assumed to be equal to 'bank-width'. - #address-cells, #size-cells : Must be present if the flash has sub-nodes representing partitions (see below). In this case both #address-cells and #size-cells must be equal to 1. For JEDEC compatible devices, the following additional properties are defined: - vendor-id : Contains the flash chip's vendor id (1 byte). - device-id : Contains the flash chip's device id (1 byte). In addition to the information on the flash bank itself, the device tree may optionally contain additional information describing partitions of the flash address space. This can be used on platforms which have strong conventions about which portions of the flash are used for what purposes, but which don't use an on-flash partition table such as RedBoot. Each partition is represented as a sub-node of the flash device. Each node's name represents the name of the corresponding partition of the flash device. Flash partitions - reg : The partition's offset and size within the flash bank. - label : (optional) The label / name for this flash partition. If omitted, the label is taken from the node name (excluding the unit address). - read-only : (optional) This parameter, if present, is a hint to Linux that this flash partition should only be mounted read-only. This is usually used for flash partitions containing early-boot firmware images or data which should not be clobbered. Example: flash@ff000000 { compatible = "amd,am29lv128ml", "cfi-flash"; reg = ; bank-width = <4>; device-width = <1>; #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; fs@0 { label = "fs"; reg = <0 f80000>; }; firmware@f80000 { label ="firmware"; reg = ; read-only; }; }; d) 4xx/Axon EMAC ethernet nodes The EMAC ethernet controller in IBM and AMCC 4xx chips, and also the Axon bridge. To operate this needs to interact with a ths special McMAL DMA controller, and sometimes an RGMII or ZMII interface. In addition to the nodes and properties described below, the node for the OPB bus on which the EMAC sits must have a correct clock-frequency property. i) The EMAC node itself Required properties: - device_type : "network" - compatible : compatible list, contains 2 entries, first is "ibm,emac-CHIP" where CHIP is the host ASIC (440gx, 405gp, Axon) and second is either "ibm,emac" or "ibm,emac4". For Axon, thus, we have: "ibm,emac-axon", "ibm,emac4" - interrupts : - interrupt-parent : optional, if needed for interrupt mapping - reg : - local-mac-address : 6 bytes, MAC address - mal-device : phandle of the associated McMAL node - mal-tx-channel : 1 cell, index of the tx channel on McMAL associated with this EMAC - mal-rx-channel : 1 cell, index of the rx channel on McMAL associated with this EMAC - cell-index : 1 cell, hardware index of the EMAC cell on a given ASIC (typically 0x0 and 0x1 for EMAC0 and EMAC1 on each Axon chip) - max-frame-size : 1 cell, maximum frame size supported in bytes - rx-fifo-size : 1 cell, Rx fifo size in bytes for 10 and 100 Mb/sec operations. For Axon, 2048 - tx-fifo-size : 1 cell, Tx fifo size in bytes for 10 and 100 Mb/sec operations. For Axon, 2048. - fifo-entry-size : 1 cell, size of a fifo entry (used to calculate thresholds). For Axon, 0x00000010 - mal-burst-size : 1 cell, MAL burst size (used to calculate thresholds) in bytes. For Axon, 0x00000100 (I think ...) - phy-mode : string, mode of operations of the PHY interface. Supported values are: "mii", "rmii", "smii", "rgmii", "tbi", "gmii", rtbi", "sgmii". For Axon on CAB, it is "rgmii" - mdio-device : 1 cell, required iff using shared MDIO registers (440EP). phandle of the EMAC to use to drive the MDIO lines for the PHY used by this EMAC. - zmii-device : 1 cell, required iff connected to a ZMII. phandle of the ZMII device node - zmii-channel : 1 cell, required iff connected to a ZMII. Which ZMII channel or 0xffffffff if ZMII is only used for MDIO. - rgmii-device : 1 cell, required iff connected to an RGMII. phandle of the RGMII device node. For Axon: phandle of plb5/plb4/opb/rgmii - rgmii-channel : 1 cell, required iff connected to an RGMII. Which RGMII channel is used by this EMAC. Fox Axon: present, whatever value is appropriate for each EMAC, that is the content of the current (bogus) "phy-port" property. Optional properties: - phy-address : 1 cell, optional, MDIO address of the PHY. If absent, a search is performed. - phy-map : 1 cell, optional, bitmap of addresses to probe the PHY for, used if phy-address is absent. bit 0x00000001 is MDIO address 0. For Axon it can be absent, thouugh my current driver doesn't handle phy-address yet so for now, keep 0x00ffffff in it. - rx-fifo-size-gige : 1 cell, Rx fifo size in bytes for 1000 Mb/sec operations (if absent the value is the same as rx-fifo-size). For Axon, either absent or 2048. - tx-fifo-size-gige : 1 cell, Tx fifo size in bytes for 1000 Mb/sec operations (if absent the value is the same as tx-fifo-size). For Axon, either absent or 2048. - tah-device : 1 cell, optional. If connected to a TAH engine for offload, phandle of the TAH device node. - tah-channel : 1 cell, optional. If appropriate, channel used on the TAH engine. Example: EMAC0: ethernet@40000800 { device_type = "network"; compatible = "ibm,emac-440gp", "ibm,emac"; interrupt-parent = <&UIC1>; interrupts = <1c 4 1d 4>; reg = <40000800 70>; local-mac-address = [00 04 AC E3 1B 1E]; mal-device = <&MAL0>; mal-tx-channel = <0 1>; mal-rx-channel = <0>; cell-index = <0>; max-frame-size = <5dc>; rx-fifo-size = <1000>; tx-fifo-size = <800>; phy-mode = "rmii"; phy-map = <00000001>; zmii-device = <&ZMII0>; zmii-channel = <0>; }; ii) McMAL node Required properties: - device_type : "dma-controller" - compatible : compatible list, containing 2 entries, first is "ibm,mcmal-CHIP" where CHIP is the host ASIC (like emac) and the second is either "ibm,mcmal" or "ibm,mcmal2". For Axon, "ibm,mcmal-axon","ibm,mcmal2" - interrupts : . For Axon: This is _different_ from the current firmware. We use the "delayed" interrupts for txeob and rxeob. Thus we end up with mapping those 5 MPIC interrupts, all level positive sensitive: 10, 11, 32, 33, 34 (in decimal) - dcr-reg : < DCR registers range > - dcr-parent : if needed for dcr-reg - num-tx-chans : 1 cell, number of Tx channels - num-rx-chans : 1 cell, number of Rx channels iii) ZMII node Required properties: - compatible : compatible list, containing 2 entries, first is "ibm,zmii-CHIP" where CHIP is the host ASIC (like EMAC) and the second is "ibm,zmii". For Axon, there is no ZMII node. - reg : iv) RGMII node Required properties: - compatible : compatible list, containing 2 entries, first is "ibm,rgmii-CHIP" where CHIP is the host ASIC (like EMAC) and the second is "ibm,rgmii". For Axon, "ibm,rgmii-axon","ibm,rgmii" - reg : - revision : as provided by the RGMII new version register if available. For Axon: 0x0000012a e) Xilinx IP cores The Xilinx EDK toolchain ships with a set of IP cores (devices) for use in Xilinx Spartan and Virtex FPGAs. The devices cover the whole range of standard device types (network, serial, etc.) and miscellanious devices (gpio, LCD, spi, etc). Also, since these devices are implemented within the fpga fabric every instance of the device can be synthesised with different options that change the behaviour. Each IP-core has a set of parameters which the FPGA designer can use to control how the core is synthesized. Historically, the EDK tool would extract the device parameters relevant to device drivers and copy them into an 'xparameters.h' in the form of #define symbols. This tells the device drivers how the IP cores are configured, but it requres the kernel to be recompiled every time the FPGA bitstream is resynthesized. The new approach is to export the parameters into the device tree and generate a new device tree each time the FPGA bitstream changes. The parameters which used to be exported as #defines will now become properties of the device node. In general, device nodes for IP-cores will take the following form: (name): (generic-name)@(base-address) { compatible = "xlnx,(ip-core-name)-(HW_VER)" [, (list of compatible devices), ...]; reg = <(baseaddr) (size)>; interrupt-parent = <&interrupt-controller-phandle>; interrupts = < ... >; xlnx,(parameter1) = "(string-value)"; xlnx,(parameter2) = <(int-value)>; }; (generic-name): an open firmware-style name that describes the generic class of device. Preferably, this is one word, such as 'serial' or 'ethernet'. (ip-core-name): the name of the ip block (given after the BEGIN directive in system.mhs). Should be in lowercase and all underscores '_' converted to dashes '-'. (name): is derived from the "PARAMETER INSTANCE" value. (parameter#): C_* parameters from system.mhs. The C_ prefix is dropped from the parameter name, the name is converted to lowercase and all underscore '_' characters are converted to dashes '-'. (baseaddr): the baseaddr parameter value (often named C_BASEADDR). (HW_VER): from the HW_VER parameter. (size): the address range size (often C_HIGHADDR - C_BASEADDR + 1). Typically, the compatible list will include the exact IP core version followed by an older IP core version which implements the same interface or any other device with the same interface. 'reg', 'interrupt-parent' and 'interrupts' are all optional properties. For example, the following block from system.mhs: BEGIN opb_uartlite PARAMETER INSTANCE = opb_uartlite_0 PARAMETER HW_VER = 1.00.b PARAMETER C_BAUDRATE = 115200 PARAMETER C_DATA_BITS = 8 PARAMETER C_ODD_PARITY = 0 PARAMETER C_USE_PARITY = 0 PARAMETER C_CLK_FREQ = 50000000 PARAMETER C_BASEADDR = 0xEC100000 PARAMETER C_HIGHADDR = 0xEC10FFFF BUS_INTERFACE SOPB = opb_7 PORT OPB_Clk = CLK_50MHz PORT Interrupt = opb_uartlite_0_Interrupt PORT RX = opb_uartlite_0_RX PORT TX = opb_uartlite_0_TX PORT OPB_Rst = sys_bus_reset_0 END becomes the following device tree node: opb_uartlite_0: serial@ec100000 { device_type = "serial"; compatible = "xlnx,opb-uartlite-1.00.b"; reg = ; interrupt-parent = <&opb_intc_0>; interrupts = <1 0>; // got this from the opb_intc parameters current-speed = ; // standard serial device prop clock-frequency = ; // standard serial device prop xlnx,data-bits = <8>; xlnx,odd-parity = <0>; xlnx,use-parity = <0>; }; Some IP cores actually implement 2 or more logical devices. In this case, the device should still describe the whole IP core with a single node and add a child node for each logical device. The ranges property can be used to translate from parent IP-core to the registers of each device. In addition, the parent node should be compatible with the bus type 'xlnx,compound', and should contain #address-cells and #size-cells, as with any other bus. (Note: this makes the assumption that both logical devices have the same bus binding. If this is not true, then separate nodes should be used for each logical device). The 'cell-index' property can be used to enumerate logical devices within an IP core. For example, the following is the system.mhs entry for the dual ps2 controller found on the ml403 reference design. BEGIN opb_ps2_dual_ref PARAMETER INSTANCE = opb_ps2_dual_ref_0 PARAMETER HW_VER = 1.00.a PARAMETER C_BASEADDR = 0xA9000000 PARAMETER C_HIGHADDR = 0xA9001FFF BUS_INTERFACE SOPB = opb_v20_0 PORT Sys_Intr1 = ps2_1_intr PORT Sys_Intr2 = ps2_2_intr PORT Clkin1 = ps2_clk_rx_1 PORT Clkin2 = ps2_clk_rx_2 PORT Clkpd1 = ps2_clk_tx_1 PORT Clkpd2 = ps2_clk_tx_2 PORT Rx1 = ps2_d_rx_1 PORT Rx2 = ps2_d_rx_2 PORT Txpd1 = ps2_d_tx_1 PORT Txpd2 = ps2_d_tx_2 END It would result in the following device tree nodes: opb_ps2_dual_ref_0: opb-ps2-dual-ref@a9000000 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; compatible = "xlnx,compound"; ranges = <0 a9000000 2000>; // If this device had extra parameters, then they would // go here. ps2@0 { compatible = "xlnx,opb-ps2-dual-ref-1.00.a"; reg = <0 40>; interrupt-parent = <&opb_intc_0>; interrupts = <3 0>; cell-index = <0>; }; ps2@1000 { compatible = "xlnx,opb-ps2-dual-ref-1.00.a"; reg = <1000 40>; interrupt-parent = <&opb_intc_0>; interrupts = <3 0>; cell-index = <0>; }; }; Also, the system.mhs file defines bus attachments from the processor to the devices. The device tree structure should reflect the bus attachments. Again an example; this system.mhs fragment: BEGIN ppc405_virtex4 PARAMETER INSTANCE = ppc405_0 PARAMETER HW_VER = 1.01.a BUS_INTERFACE DPLB = plb_v34_0 BUS_INTERFACE IPLB = plb_v34_0 END BEGIN opb_intc PARAMETER INSTANCE = opb_intc_0 PARAMETER HW_VER = 1.00.c PARAMETER C_BASEADDR = 0xD1000FC0 PARAMETER C_HIGHADDR = 0xD1000FDF BUS_INTERFACE SOPB = opb_v20_0 END BEGIN opb_uart16550 PARAMETER INSTANCE = opb_uart16550_0 PARAMETER HW_VER = 1.00.d PARAMETER C_BASEADDR = 0xa0000000 PARAMETER C_HIGHADDR = 0xa0001FFF BUS_INTERFACE SOPB = opb_v20_0 END BEGIN plb_v34 PARAMETER INSTANCE = plb_v34_0 PARAMETER HW_VER = 1.02.a END BEGIN plb_bram_if_cntlr PARAMETER INSTANCE = plb_bram_if_cntlr_0 PARAMETER HW_VER = 1.00.b PARAMETER C_BASEADDR = 0xFFFF0000 PARAMETER C_HIGHADDR = 0xFFFFFFFF BUS_INTERFACE SPLB = plb_v34_0 END BEGIN plb2opb_bridge PARAMETER INSTANCE = plb2opb_bridge_0 PARAMETER HW_VER = 1.01.a PARAMETER C_RNG0_BASEADDR = 0x20000000 PARAMETER C_RNG0_HIGHADDR = 0x3FFFFFFF PARAMETER C_RNG1_BASEADDR = 0x60000000 PARAMETER C_RNG1_HIGHADDR = 0x7FFFFFFF PARAMETER C_RNG2_BASEADDR = 0x80000000 PARAMETER C_RNG2_HIGHADDR = 0xBFFFFFFF PARAMETER C_RNG3_BASEADDR = 0xC0000000 PARAMETER C_RNG3_HIGHADDR = 0xDFFFFFFF BUS_INTERFACE SPLB = plb_v34_0 BUS_INTERFACE MOPB = opb_v20_0 END Gives this device tree (some properties removed for clarity): plb@0 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; compatible = "xlnx,plb-v34-1.02.a"; device_type = "ibm,plb"; ranges; // 1:1 translation plb_bram_if_cntrl_0: bram@ffff0000 { reg = ; } opb@20000000 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; ranges = <20000000 20000000 20000000 60000000 60000000 20000000 80000000 80000000 40000000 c0000000 c0000000 20000000>; opb_uart16550_0: serial@a0000000 { reg = ; }; opb_intc_0: interrupt-controller@d1000fc0 { reg = ; }; }; }; That covers the general approach to binding xilinx IP cores into the device tree. The following are bindings for specific devices: i) Xilinx ML300 Framebuffer Simple framebuffer device from the ML300 reference design (also on the ML403 reference design as well as others). Optional properties: - resolution = : pixel resolution of framebuffer. Some implementations use a different resolution. Default is - virt-resolution = : Size of framebuffer in memory. Default is . - rotate-display (empty) : rotate display 180 degrees. ii) Xilinx SystemACE The Xilinx SystemACE device is used to program FPGAs from an FPGA bitstream stored on a CF card. It can also be used as a generic CF interface device. Optional properties: - 8-bit (empty) : Set this property for SystemACE in 8 bit mode iii) Xilinx EMAC and Xilinx TEMAC Xilinx Ethernet devices. In addition to general xilinx properties listed above, nodes for these devices should include a phy-handle property, and may include other common network device properties like local-mac-address. iv) Xilinx Uartlite Xilinx uartlite devices are simple fixed speed serial ports. Required properties: - current-speed : Baud rate of uartlite v) Xilinx hwicap Xilinx hwicap devices provide access to the configuration logic of the FPGA through the Internal Configuration Access Port (ICAP). The ICAP enables partial reconfiguration of the FPGA, readback of the configuration information, and some control over 'warm boots' of the FPGA fabric. Required properties: - xlnx,family : The family of the FPGA, necessary since the capabilities of the underlying ICAP hardware differ between different families. May be 'virtex2p', 'virtex4', or 'virtex5'. vi) Xilinx Uart 16550 Xilinx UART 16550 devices are very similar to the NS16550 but with different register spacing and an offset from the base address. Required properties: - clock-frequency : Frequency of the clock input - reg-offset : A value of 3 is required - reg-shift : A value of 2 is required f) USB EHCI controllers Required properties: - compatible : should be "usb-ehci". - reg : should contain at least address and length of the standard EHCI register set for the device. Optional platform-dependent registers (debug-port or other) can be also specified here, but only after definition of standard EHCI registers. - interrupts : one EHCI interrupt should be described here. If device registers are implemented in big endian mode, the device node should have "big-endian-regs" property. If controller implementation operates with big endian descriptors, "big-endian-desc" property should be specified. If both big endian registers and descriptors are used by the controller implementation, "big-endian" property can be specified instead of having both "big-endian-regs" and "big-endian-desc". Example (Sequoia 440EPx): ehci@e0000300 { compatible = "ibm,usb-ehci-440epx", "usb-ehci"; interrupt-parent = <&UIC0>; interrupts = <1a 4>; reg = <0 e0000300 90 0 e0000390 70>; big-endian; }; r) Freescale Display Interface Unit The Freescale DIU is a LCD controller, with proper hardware, it can also drive DVI monitors. Required properties: - compatible : should be "fsl-diu". - reg : should contain at least address and length of the DIU register set. - Interrupts : one DIU interrupt should be describe here. Example (MPC8610HPCD) display@2c000 { compatible = "fsl,diu"; reg = <0x2c000 100>; interrupts = <72 2>; interrupt-parent = <&mpic>; }; s) Freescale on board FPGA This is the memory-mapped registers for on board FPGA. Required properities: - compatible : should be "fsl,fpga-pixis". - reg : should contain the address and the lenght of the FPPGA register set. Example (MPC8610HPCD) board-control@e8000000 { compatible = "fsl,fpga-pixis"; reg = <0xe8000000 32>; }; r) MDIO on GPIOs Currently defined compatibles: - virtual,gpio-mdio MDC and MDIO lines connected to GPIO controllers are listed in the gpios property as described in section VIII.1 in the following order: MDC, MDIO. Example: mdio { compatible = "virtual,mdio-gpio"; #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; gpios = <&qe_pio_a 11 &qe_pio_c 6>; }; s) SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) busses SPI busses can be described with a node for the SPI master device and a set of child nodes for each SPI slave on the bus. For this discussion, it is assumed that the system's SPI controller is in SPI master mode. This binding does not describe SPI controllers in slave mode. The SPI master node requires the following properties: - #address-cells - number of cells required to define a chip select address on the SPI bus. - #size-cells - should be zero. - compatible - name of SPI bus controller following generic names recommended practice. No other properties are required in the SPI bus node. It is assumed that a driver for an SPI bus device will understand that it is an SPI bus. However, the binding does not attempt to define the specific method for assigning chip select numbers. Since SPI chip select configuration is flexible and non-standardized, it is left out of this binding with the assumption that board specific platform code will be used to manage chip selects. Individual drivers can define additional properties to support describing the chip select layout. SPI slave nodes must be children of the SPI master node and can contain the following properties. - reg - (required) chip select address of device. - compatible - (required) name of SPI device following generic names recommended practice - spi-max-frequency - (required) Maximum SPI clocking speed of device in Hz - spi-cpol - (optional) Empty property indicating device requires inverse clock polarity (CPOL) mode - spi-cpha - (optional) Empty property indicating device requires shifted clock phase (CPHA) mode SPI example for an MPC5200 SPI bus: spi@f00 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; compatible = "fsl,mpc5200b-spi","fsl,mpc5200-spi"; reg = <0xf00 0x20>; interrupts = <2 13 0 2 14 0>; interrupt-parent = <&mpc5200_pic>; ethernet-switch@0 { compatible = "micrel,ks8995m"; spi-max-frequency = <1000000>; reg = <0>; }; codec@1 { compatible = "ti,tlv320aic26"; spi-max-frequency = <100000>; reg = <1>; }; }; VII - Marvell Discovery mv64[345]6x System Controller chips =========================================================== The Marvell mv64[345]60 series of system controller chips contain many of the peripherals needed to implement a complete computer system. In this section, we define device tree nodes to describe the system controller chip itself and each of the peripherals which it contains. Compatible string values for each node are prefixed with the string "marvell,", for Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 1) The /system-controller node This node is used to represent the system-controller and must be present when the system uses a system controller chip. The top-level system-controller node contains information that is global to all devices within the system controller chip. The node name begins with "system-controller" followed by the unit address, which is the base address of the memory-mapped register set for the system controller chip. Required properties: - ranges : Describes the translation of system controller addresses for memory mapped registers. - clock-frequency: Contains the main clock frequency for the system controller chip. - reg : This property defines the address and size of the memory-mapped registers contained within the system controller chip. The address specified in the "reg" property should match the unit address of the system-controller node. - #address-cells : Address representation for system controller devices. This field represents the number of cells needed to represent the address of the memory-mapped registers of devices within the system controller chip. - #size-cells : Size representation for for the memory-mapped registers within the system controller chip. - #interrupt-cells : Defines the width of cells used to represent interrupts. Optional properties: - model : The specific model of the system controller chip. Such as, "mv64360", "mv64460", or "mv64560". - compatible : A string identifying the compatibility identifiers of the system controller chip. The system-controller node contains child nodes for each system controller device that the platform uses. Nodes should not be created for devices which exist on the system controller chip but are not used Example Marvell Discovery mv64360 system-controller node: system-controller@f1000000 { /* Marvell Discovery mv64360 */ #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; model = "mv64360"; /* Default */ compatible = "marvell,mv64360"; clock-frequency = <133333333>; reg = <0xf1000000 0x10000>; virtual-reg = <0xf1000000>; ranges = <0x88000000 0x88000000 0x1000000 /* PCI 0 I/O Space */ 0x80000000 0x80000000 0x8000000 /* PCI 0 MEM Space */ 0xa0000000 0xa0000000 0x4000000 /* User FLASH */ 0x00000000 0xf1000000 0x0010000 /* Bridge's regs */ 0xf2000000 0xf2000000 0x0040000>;/* Integrated SRAM */ [ child node definitions... ] } 2) Child nodes of /system-controller a) Marvell Discovery MDIO bus The MDIO is a bus to which the PHY devices are connected. For each device that exists on this bus, a child node should be created. See the definition of the PHY node below for an example of how to define a PHY. Required properties: - #address-cells : Should be <1> - #size-cells : Should be <0> - device_type : Should be "mdio" - compatible : Should be "marvell,mv64360-mdio" Example: mdio { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; device_type = "mdio"; compatible = "marvell,mv64360-mdio"; ethernet-phy@0 { ...... }; }; b) Marvell Discovery ethernet controller The Discover ethernet controller is described with two levels of nodes. The first level describes an ethernet silicon block and the second level describes up to 3 ethernet nodes within that block. The reason for the multiple levels is that the registers for the node are interleaved within a single set of registers. The "ethernet-block" level describes the shared register set, and the "ethernet" nodes describe ethernet port-specific properties. Ethernet block node Required properties: - #address-cells : <1> - #size-cells : <0> - compatible : "marvell,mv64360-eth-block" - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this block Example Discovery Ethernet block node: ethernet-block@2000 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; compatible = "marvell,mv64360-eth-block"; reg = <0x2000 0x2000>; ethernet@0 { ....... }; }; Ethernet port node Required properties: - device_type : Should be "network". - compatible : Should be "marvell,mv64360-eth". - reg : Should be <0>, <1>, or <2>, according to which registers within the silicon block the device uses. - interrupts : where a is the interrupt number for the port. - interrupt-parent : the phandle for the interrupt controller that services interrupts for this device. - phy : the phandle for the PHY connected to this ethernet controller. - local-mac-address : 6 bytes, MAC address Example Discovery Ethernet port node: ethernet@0 { device_type = "network"; compatible = "marvell,mv64360-eth"; reg = <0>; interrupts = <32>; interrupt-parent = <&PIC>; phy = <&PHY0>; local-mac-address = [ 00 00 00 00 00 00 ]; }; c) Marvell Discovery PHY nodes Required properties: - device_type : Should be "ethernet-phy" - interrupts : where a is the interrupt number for this phy. - interrupt-parent : the phandle for the interrupt controller that services interrupts for this device. - reg : The ID number for the phy, usually a small integer Example Discovery PHY node: ethernet-phy@1 { device_type = "ethernet-phy"; compatible = "broadcom,bcm5421"; interrupts = <76>; /* GPP 12 */ interrupt-parent = <&PIC>; reg = <1>; }; d) Marvell Discovery SDMA nodes Represent DMA hardware associated with the MPSC (multiprotocol serial controllers). Required properties: - compatible : "marvell,mv64360-sdma" - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this device - interrupts : where a is the interrupt number for the DMA device. - interrupt-parent : the phandle for the interrupt controller that services interrupts for this device. Example Discovery SDMA node: sdma@4000 { compatible = "marvell,mv64360-sdma"; reg = <0x4000 0xc18>; virtual-reg = <0xf1004000>; interrupts = <36>; interrupt-parent = <&PIC>; }; e) Marvell Discovery BRG nodes Represent baud rate generator hardware associated with the MPSC (multiprotocol serial controllers). Required properties: - compatible : "marvell,mv64360-brg" - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this device - clock-src : A value from 0 to 15 which selects the clock source for the baud rate generator. This value corresponds to the CLKS value in the BRGx configuration register. See the mv64x60 User's Manual. - clock-frequence : The frequency (in Hz) of the baud rate generator's input clock. - current-speed : The current speed setting (presumably by firmware) of the baud rate generator. Example Discovery BRG node: brg@b200 { compatible = "marvell,mv64360-brg"; reg = <0xb200 0x8>; clock-src = <8>; clock-frequency = <133333333>; current-speed = <9600>; }; f) Marvell Discovery CUNIT nodes Represent the Serial Communications Unit device hardware. Required properties: - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this device Example Discovery CUNIT node: cunit@f200 { reg = <0xf200 0x200>; }; g) Marvell Discovery MPSCROUTING nodes Represent the Discovery's MPSC routing hardware Required properties: - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this device Example Discovery CUNIT node: mpscrouting@b500 { reg = <0xb400 0xc>; }; h) Marvell Discovery MPSCINTR nodes Represent the Discovery's MPSC DMA interrupt hardware registers (SDMA cause and mask registers). Required properties: - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this device Example Discovery MPSCINTR node: mpsintr@b800 { reg = <0xb800 0x100>; }; i) Marvell Discovery MPSC nodes Represent the Discovery's MPSC (Multiprotocol Serial Controller) serial port. Required properties: - device_type : "serial" - compatible : "marvell,mv64360-mpsc" - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this device - sdma : the phandle for the SDMA node used by this port - brg : the phandle for the BRG node used by this port - cunit : the phandle for the CUNIT node used by this port - mpscrouting : the phandle for the MPSCROUTING node used by this port - mpscintr : the phandle for the MPSCINTR node used by this port - cell-index : the hardware index of this cell in the MPSC core - max_idle : value needed for MPSC CHR3 (Maximum Frame Length) register - interrupts : where a is the interrupt number for the MPSC. - interrupt-parent : the phandle for the interrupt controller that services interrupts for this device. Example Discovery MPSCINTR node: mpsc@8000 { device_type = "serial"; compatible = "marvell,mv64360-mpsc"; reg = <0x8000 0x38>; virtual-reg = <0xf1008000>; sdma = <&SDMA0>; brg = <&BRG0>; cunit = <&CUNIT>; mpscrouting = <&MPSCROUTING>; mpscintr = <&MPSCINTR>; cell-index = <0>; max_idle = <40>; interrupts = <40>; interrupt-parent = <&PIC>; }; j) Marvell Discovery Watch Dog Timer nodes Represent the Discovery's watchdog timer hardware Required properties: - compatible : "marvell,mv64360-wdt" - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this device Example Discovery Watch Dog Timer node: wdt@b410 { compatible = "marvell,mv64360-wdt"; reg = <0xb410 0x8>; }; k) Marvell Discovery I2C nodes Represent the Discovery's I2C hardware Required properties: - device_type : "i2c" - compatible : "marvell,mv64360-i2c" - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this device - interrupts : where a is the interrupt number for the I2C. - interrupt-parent : the phandle for the interrupt controller that services interrupts for this device. Example Discovery I2C node: compatible = "marvell,mv64360-i2c"; reg = <0xc000 0x20>; virtual-reg = <0xf100c000>; interrupts = <37>; interrupt-parent = <&PIC>; }; l) Marvell Discovery PIC (Programmable Interrupt Controller) nodes Represent the Discovery's PIC hardware Required properties: - #interrupt-cells : <1> - #address-cells : <0> - compatible : "marvell,mv64360-pic" - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this device - interrupt-controller Example Discovery PIC node: pic { #interrupt-cells = <1>; #address-cells = <0>; compatible = "marvell,mv64360-pic"; reg = <0x0 0x88>; interrupt-controller; }; m) Marvell Discovery MPP (Multipurpose Pins) multiplexing nodes Represent the Discovery's MPP hardware Required properties: - compatible : "marvell,mv64360-mpp" - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this device Example Discovery MPP node: mpp@f000 { compatible = "marvell,mv64360-mpp"; reg = <0xf000 0x10>; }; n) Marvell Discovery GPP (General Purpose Pins) nodes Represent the Discovery's GPP hardware Required properties: - compatible : "marvell,mv64360-gpp" - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this device Example Discovery GPP node: gpp@f000 { compatible = "marvell,mv64360-gpp"; reg = <0xf100 0x20>; }; o) Marvell Discovery PCI host bridge node Represents the Discovery's PCI host bridge device. The properties for this node conform to Rev 2.1 of the PCI Bus Binding to IEEE 1275-1994. A typical value for the compatible property is "marvell,mv64360-pci". Example Discovery PCI host bridge node pci@80000000 { #address-cells = <3>; #size-cells = <2>; #interrupt-cells = <1>; device_type = "pci"; compatible = "marvell,mv64360-pci"; reg = <0xcf8 0x8>; ranges = <0x01000000 0x0 0x0 0x88000000 0x0 0x01000000 0x02000000 0x0 0x80000000 0x80000000 0x0 0x08000000>; bus-range = <0 255>; clock-frequency = <66000000>; interrupt-parent = <&PIC>; interrupt-map-mask = <0xf800 0x0 0x0 0x7>; interrupt-map = < /* IDSEL 0x0a */ 0x5000 0 0 1 &PIC 80 0x5000 0 0 2 &PIC 81 0x5000 0 0 3 &PIC 91 0x5000 0 0 4 &PIC 93 /* IDSEL 0x0b */ 0x5800 0 0 1 &PIC 91 0x5800 0 0 2 &PIC 93 0x5800 0 0 3 &PIC 80 0x5800 0 0 4 &PIC 81 /* IDSEL 0x0c */ 0x6000 0 0 1 &PIC 91 0x6000 0 0 2 &PIC 93 0x6000 0 0 3 &PIC 80 0x6000 0 0 4 &PIC 81 /* IDSEL 0x0d */ 0x6800 0 0 1 &PIC 93 0x6800 0 0 2 &PIC 80 0x6800 0 0 3 &PIC 81 0x6800 0 0 4 &PIC 91 >; }; p) Marvell Discovery CPU Error nodes Represent the Discovery's CPU error handler device. Required properties: - compatible : "marvell,mv64360-cpu-error" - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this device - interrupts : the interrupt number for this device - interrupt-parent : the phandle for the interrupt controller that services interrupts for this device. Example Discovery CPU Error node: cpu-error@0070 { compatible = "marvell,mv64360-cpu-error"; reg = <0x70 0x10 0x128 0x28>; interrupts = <3>; interrupt-parent = <&PIC>; }; q) Marvell Discovery SRAM Controller nodes Represent the Discovery's SRAM controller device. Required properties: - compatible : "marvell,mv64360-sram-ctrl" - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this device - interrupts : the interrupt number for this device - interrupt-parent : the phandle for the interrupt controller that services interrupts for this device. Example Discovery SRAM Controller node: sram-ctrl@0380 { compatible = "marvell,mv64360-sram-ctrl"; reg = <0x380 0x80>; interrupts = <13>; interrupt-parent = <&PIC>; }; r) Marvell Discovery PCI Error Handler nodes Represent the Discovery's PCI error handler device. Required properties: - compatible : "marvell,mv64360-pci-error" - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this device - interrupts : the interrupt number for this device - interrupt-parent : the phandle for the interrupt controller that services interrupts for this device. Example Discovery PCI Error Handler node: pci-error@1d40 { compatible = "marvell,mv64360-pci-error"; reg = <0x1d40 0x40 0xc28 0x4>; interrupts = <12>; interrupt-parent = <&PIC>; }; s) Marvell Discovery Memory Controller nodes Represent the Discovery's memory controller device. Required properties: - compatible : "marvell,mv64360-mem-ctrl" - reg : Offset and length of the register set for this device - interrupts : the interrupt number for this device - interrupt-parent : the phandle for the interrupt controller that services interrupts for this device. Example Discovery Memory Controller node: mem-ctrl@1400 { compatible = "marvell,mv64360-mem-ctrl"; reg = <0x1400 0x60>; interrupts = <17>; interrupt-parent = <&PIC>; }; VIII - Specifying interrupt information for devices =================================================== The device tree represents the busses and devices of a hardware system in a form similar to the physical bus topology of the hardware. In addition, a logical 'interrupt tree' exists which represents the hierarchy and routing of interrupts in the hardware. The interrupt tree model is fully described in the document "Open Firmware Recommended Practice: Interrupt Mapping Version 0.9". The document is available at: . 1) interrupts property ---------------------- Devices that generate interrupts to a single interrupt controller should use the conventional OF representation described in the OF interrupt mapping documentation. Each device which generates interrupts must have an 'interrupt' property. The interrupt property value is an arbitrary number of of 'interrupt specifier' values which describe the interrupt or interrupts for the device. The encoding of an interrupt specifier is determined by the interrupt domain in which the device is located in the interrupt tree. The root of an interrupt domain specifies in its #interrupt-cells property the number of 32-bit cells required to encode an interrupt specifier. See the OF interrupt mapping documentation for a detailed description of domains. For example, the binding for the OpenPIC interrupt controller specifies an #interrupt-cells value of 2 to encode the interrupt number and level/sense information. All interrupt children in an OpenPIC interrupt domain use 2 cells per interrupt in their interrupts property. The PCI bus binding specifies a #interrupt-cell value of 1 to encode which interrupt pin (INTA,INTB,INTC,INTD) is used. 2) interrupt-parent property ---------------------------- The interrupt-parent property is specified to define an explicit link between a device node and its interrupt parent in the interrupt tree. The value of interrupt-parent is the phandle of the parent node. If the interrupt-parent property is not defined for a node, it's interrupt parent is assumed to be an ancestor in the node's _device tree_ hierarchy. 3) OpenPIC Interrupt Controllers -------------------------------- OpenPIC interrupt controllers require 2 cells to encode interrupt information. The first cell defines the interrupt number. The second cell defines the sense and level information. Sense and level information should be encoded as follows: 0 = low to high edge sensitive type enabled 1 = active low level sensitive type enabled 2 = active high level sensitive type enabled 3 = high to low edge sensitive type enabled 4) ISA Interrupt Controllers ---------------------------- ISA PIC interrupt controllers require 2 cells to encode interrupt information. The first cell defines the interrupt number. The second cell defines the sense and level information. ISA PIC interrupt controllers should adhere to the ISA PIC encodings listed below: 0 = active low level sensitive type enabled 1 = active high level sensitive type enabled 2 = high to low edge sensitive type enabled 3 = low to high edge sensitive type enabled IX - Specifying GPIO information for devices ============================================ 1) gpios property ----------------- Nodes that makes use of GPIOs should define them using `gpios' property, format of which is: <&gpio-controller1-phandle gpio1-specifier &gpio-controller2-phandle gpio2-specifier 0 /* holes are permitted, means no GPIO 3 */ &gpio-controller4-phandle gpio4-specifier ...>; Note that gpio-specifier length is controller dependent. gpio-specifier may encode: bank, pin position inside the bank, whether pin is open-drain and whether pin is logically inverted. Example of the node using GPIOs: node { gpios = <&qe_pio_e 18 0>; }; In this example gpio-specifier is "18 0" and encodes GPIO pin number, and empty GPIO flags as accepted by the "qe_pio_e" gpio-controller. 2) gpio-controller nodes ------------------------ Every GPIO controller node must have #gpio-cells property defined, this information will be used to translate gpio-specifiers. Example of two SOC GPIO banks defined as gpio-controller nodes: qe_pio_a: gpio-controller@1400 { #gpio-cells = <2>; compatible = "fsl,qe-pario-bank-a", "fsl,qe-pario-bank"; reg = <0x1400 0x18>; gpio-controller; }; qe_pio_e: gpio-controller@1460 { #gpio-cells = <2>; compatible = "fsl,qe-pario-bank-e", "fsl,qe-pario-bank"; reg = <0x1460 0x18>; gpio-controller; }; X - Specifying Device Power Management Information (sleep property) =================================================================== Devices on SOCs often have mechanisms for placing devices into low-power states that are decoupled from the devices' own register blocks. Sometimes, this information is more complicated than a cell-index property can reasonably describe. Thus, each device controlled in such a manner may contain a "sleep" property which describes these connections. The sleep property consists of one or more sleep resources, each of which consists of a phandle to a sleep controller, followed by a controller-specific sleep specifier of zero or more cells. The semantics of what type of low power modes are possible are defined by the sleep controller. Some examples of the types of low power modes that may be supported are: - Dynamic: The device may be disabled or enabled at any time. - System Suspend: The device may request to be disabled or remain awake during system suspend, but will not be disabled until then. - Permanent: The device is disabled permanently (until the next hard reset). Some devices may share a clock domain with each other, such that they should only be suspended when none of the devices are in use. Where reasonable, such nodes should be placed on a virtual bus, where the bus has the sleep property. If the clock domain is shared among devices that cannot be reasonably grouped in this manner, then create a virtual sleep controller (similar to an interrupt nexus, except that defining a standardized sleep-map should wait until its necessity is demonstrated). Appendix A - Sample SOC node for MPC8540 ======================================== soc@e0000000 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; compatible = "fsl,mpc8540-ccsr", "simple-bus"; device_type = "soc"; ranges = <0x00000000 0xe0000000 0x00100000> bus-frequency = <0>; interrupt-parent = <&pic>; ethernet@24000 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; device_type = "network"; model = "TSEC"; compatible = "gianfar", "simple-bus"; reg = <0x24000 0x1000>; local-mac-address = [ 00 E0 0C 00 73 00 ]; interrupts = <29 2 30 2 34 2>; phy-handle = <&phy0>; sleep = <&pmc 00000080>; ranges; mdio@24520 { reg = <0x24520 0x20>; compatible = "fsl,gianfar-mdio"; phy0: ethernet-phy@0 { interrupts = <5 1>; reg = <0>; device_type = "ethernet-phy"; }; phy1: ethernet-phy@1 { interrupts = <5 1>; reg = <1>; device_type = "ethernet-phy"; }; phy3: ethernet-phy@3 { interrupts = <7 1>; reg = <3>; device_type = "ethernet-phy"; }; }; }; ethernet@25000 { device_type = "network"; model = "TSEC"; compatible = "gianfar"; reg = <0x25000 0x1000>; local-mac-address = [ 00 E0 0C 00 73 01 ]; interrupts = <13 2 14 2 18 2>; phy-handle = <&phy1>; sleep = <&pmc 00000040>; }; ethernet@26000 { device_type = "network"; model = "FEC"; compatible = "gianfar"; reg = <0x26000 0x1000>; local-mac-address = [ 00 E0 0C 00 73 02 ]; interrupts = <41 2>; phy-handle = <&phy3>; sleep = <&pmc 00000020>; }; serial@4500 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; compatible = "fsl,mpc8540-duart", "simple-bus"; sleep = <&pmc 00000002>; ranges; serial@4500 { device_type = "serial"; compatible = "ns16550"; reg = <0x4500 0x100>; clock-frequency = <0>; interrupts = <42 2>; }; serial@4600 { device_type = "serial"; compatible = "ns16550"; reg = <0x4600 0x100>; clock-frequency = <0>; interrupts = <42 2>; }; }; pic: pic@40000 { interrupt-controller; #address-cells = <0>; #interrupt-cells = <2>; reg = <0x40000 0x40000>; compatible = "chrp,open-pic"; device_type = "open-pic"; }; i2c@3000 { interrupts = <43 2>; reg = <0x3000 0x100>; compatible = "fsl-i2c"; dfsrr; sleep = <&pmc 00000004>; }; pmc: power@e0070 { compatible = "fsl,mpc8540-pmc", "fsl,mpc8548-pmc"; reg = <0xe0070 0x20>; }; };