Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 6 authors, 2014-05-15

[PATCH v3 2/6] dt-bindings: add mtk-timer bindings

From: matthias.bgg@gmail.com (Matthias Brugger)
Date: 2014-05-13 14:08:42
Also in: linux-devicetree

2014-05-13 15:08 GMT+02:00 S?ren Brinkmann [off-list ref]:
Hi Matthias,

On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 01:49AM +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
quoted
Add binding documentation for the General Porpose Timer driver of
the Mediatek SoCs.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
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 .../devicetree/bindings/timer/mediatek,mtk-timer.txt   | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/mediatek,mtk-timer.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/mediatek,mtk-timer.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/mediatek,mtk-timer.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d0f2df3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/mediatek,mtk-timer.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Mediatek MT6589, MT6577 and MT6572 Timers
+---------------------------------------
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: Should be "mediatek,mtk6589-timer"
+- reg: Should contain location and length for timers register.
+- clocks: phandle to the clock source; the first refers to a 13 MHz fixed
+             system clock and the second handle to a 32 KHz fixed RTC
+             clock.
Are these frequencies mandatory to the timer or an implementation
detail of the SOC you're working with? I suspect, it might be possible
to see the same timer in a different SOC implementation with different
frequencies? In that case - or probably in general - the frequencies
should not be part of the binding, IMHO.
I had a look at the implementation of several Mediatek SoCs and all of
them have the timer with the same clock connections.
I don't know if the IP can be or is actually used with other clocksources.
I can try to reformulate the description to make the clock constraints
sound less mandatory.
Although I would prefer to leave a mention about the clock frequencies
(like e.g. in the allwinner,sun4i-timer).
quoted
+
+Examples:
+
+     timer {
+             compatible = "mediatek,mtk6589-timer";
+             reg = <0x10008000 0x80>;
+             interrupts = <GIC_SPI 113 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>;
+             clocks = <&system_clk>, <&rtc_clk>;
Might be just my personal preference, but you could also add the clock-names
property which would relax the ordering requirement a bit and would
clearly  identify the IP's clocks.
In the v1 of the patch series I had the clock names included [1] but
because of comments of others I removed them [1].
Actually the driver just use the first clock, but from my
understanding the DT reflects as well the HW configuration and for
this reason I put the two clocks in the DT.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/69155/
        S?ren


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