Thread (29 messages) 29 messages, 6 authors, 2015-07-15

[PATCH v7 4/9] nvmem: Add bindings for simple nvmem framework

From: Rob Herring <hidden>
Date: 2015-07-10 19:04:52
Also in: linux-api, linux-arm-msm, linux-devicetree, lkml

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Srinivas Kandagatla
[off-list ref] wrote:
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This patch adds bindings for simple nvmem framework which allows nvmem
consumers to talk to nvmem providers to get access to nvmem cell data.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <redacted>
[Maxime Ripard: intial version of eeprom framework]
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <redacted>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/nvmem.txt | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 85 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/nvmem.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/nvmem.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/nvmem.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..849f1e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/nvmem.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+= NVMEM(Non Volatile Memory) Data Device Tree Bindings =
+
+This binding is intended to represent the location of hardware
+configuration data stored in NVMEMs like eeprom, efuses and so on.
+
+On a significant proportion of boards, the manufacturer has stored
+some data on NVMEM, for the OS to be able to retrieve these information
+and act upon it. Obviously, the OS has to know about where to retrieve
+these data from, and where they are stored on the storage device.
+
+This document is here to document this.
+
+= Data providers =
+Contains bindings specific to provider drivers and data cells as children
+of this node.
#address-cells and #size-cells are required here.
+
+Optional properties:
+ read-only: Mark the provider as read only.
Couldn't this be per field rather than global?
+
+= Data cells =
+These are the child nodes of the provider which contain data cell
+information like offset and size in nvmem provider.
+
+Required properties:
+reg:   specifies the offset in byte within that storage device, start bit
+       in the byte and the length in bytes of the data we care about.
+       There could be more than one offset-length pairs in this property.
+
+Optional properties:
+
+bit-offset: specifies the offset in bit within the address range specified
+       by reg property. Can take values from 0-7.
+nbits: specifies number of bits this cell occupies starting from bit-offset.
How about just: "bits = <<offset> <size>>"

Then the bit specification is more aligned with the byte location
(i.e. reg property).

You could also do this all in the reg property with 2 address cells
for byte and bit position and then size can be in bits. reg doesn't
have to match a memory mapped bus addressing meanings. If you wanted
to handle ranges and address translation, then you would need custom
functions like PCI does. I'm not sure you would need that.
+
+For example:
+
+       /* Provider */
+       qfprom: qfprom at 00700000 {
+               ...
+
+               /* Data cells */
+               tsens_calibration: calib at 404 {
+                       reg = <0x404 0x10>;
+               };
+
+               tsens_calibration_bckp: calib_bckp at 504 {
+                       reg = <0x504 0x11>;
+                       bit-offset = 6;
+                       nbits = 128;
+               };
+
+               pvs_version: pvs-version at 6 {
+                       reg = <0x6 0x2>
+                       bit-offset = 7;
+                       nbits = 2;
+               };
+
+               speed_bin: speed-bin at c{
+                       reg = <0xc 0x1>;
+                       bit-offset = 2;
+                       nbits   = 3;
+
+               };
+               ...
+       };
+
+= Data consumers =
+Are device nodes which consume nvmem data cells/providers.
+
+Required-properties:
+nvmem-cells: list of phandle to the nvmem data cells.
+nvmem-cell-names: names for the each nvmem-cells specified. Required if
+       nvmem-cells is used.
+
+Optional-properties:
+nvmem  : list of phandles to nvmem providers.
+nvmem-names: names for the each nvmem provider. required if nvmem is used.
+
+For example:
+
+       tsens {
+               ...
+               nvmem-cells = <&tsens_calibration>;
+               nvmem-cell-names = "calibration";
+       };
--
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