Thread (49 messages) 49 messages, 10 authors, 2008-06-30

Re: [PATCH 3/4] spi: Add OF binding support for SPI busses

From: Randy Dunlap <hidden>
Date: 2008-05-16 20:49:06
Also in: linux-spi, lkml

On Fri, 16 May 2008 13:36:13 -0600 Grant Likely wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
index 1d2a772..452c242 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
@@ -2870,6 +2871,66 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model.
 		reg = <0xe8000000 32>;
 	};
 
+    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
+    - max-speed       - (optional) Maximum SPI clocking speed of device in Hz
+    - spi,cpol        - (optional) Device requires inverse clock polarity
+    - spi,cpha        - (optional) Device requires shifted clock phase
+    - linux,modalias  - (optional, Linux specific) Force binding of SPI device
+			to a particular spi_device driver.  Useful for changing
+			driver binding between spidev and a kernel spi driver.
                                                                   ~~~

Hi,
You mostly capitalize "SPI" in sentences (i.e., when it's not part of
a function name or OF data), so could the 3 underlined instances of it
also be all caps?

Thanks,
---
~Randy
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