| Booting the Linux/ppc kernel without Open Firmware | |
| -------------------------------------------------- | |
| (c) 2005 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>, | |
| IBM Corp. | |
| (c) 2005 Becky Bruce <becky.bruce at freescale.com>, | |
| 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/arm | |
| 2) Entry point for arch/powerpc | |
| 3) Entry point for arch/x86 | |
| 4) Entry point for arch/mips/bmips | |
| 5) Entry point for arch/sh | |
| 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<SOCname> 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 | |
| VII - Specifying interrupt information for devices | |
| 1) interrupts property | |
| 2) interrupt-parent property | |
| 3) OpenPIC Interrupt Controllers | |
| 4) ISA Interrupt Controllers | |
| VIII - Specifying device power management information (sleep property) | |
| IX - Specifying dma bus information | |
| 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 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 follow 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 information and memory/IO ranges, among others. It is also | |
| recommended to define nodes for on chip devices and other buses 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/arm | |
| --------------------------- | |
| There is one single entry point to the kernel, at the start | |
| of the kernel image. That entry point supports two calling | |
| conventions. A summary of the interface is described here. A full | |
| description of the boot requirements is documented in | |
| Documentation/arm/Booting | |
| a) ATAGS interface. Minimal information is passed from firmware | |
| to the kernel with a tagged list of predefined parameters. | |
| r0 : 0 | |
| r1 : Machine type number | |
| r2 : Physical address of tagged list in system RAM | |
| b) Entry with a flattened device-tree block. Firmware loads the | |
| physical address of the flattened device tree block (dtb) into r2, | |
| r1 is not used, but it is considered good practice to use a valid | |
| machine number as described in Documentation/arm/Booting. | |
| r0 : 0 | |
| r1 : Valid machine type number. When using a device tree, | |
| a single machine type number will often be assigned to | |
| represent a class or family of SoCs. | |
| r2 : physical pointer to the device-tree block | |
| (defined in chapter II) in RAM. Device tree can be located | |
| anywhere in system RAM, but it should be aligned on a 64 bit | |
| boundary. | |
| The kernel will differentiate between ATAGS and device tree booting by | |
| reading the memory pointed to by r2 and looking for either the flattened | |
| device tree block magic value (0xd00dfeed) or the ATAG_CORE value at | |
| offset 0x4 from r2 (0x54410001). | |
| 2) Entry point for arch/powerpc | |
| ------------------------------- | |
| There is 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. | |
| 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 | |
| A kernel image 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. | |
| 3) Entry point for arch/x86 | |
| ------------------------------- | |
| There is one single 32bit entry point to the kernel at code32_start, | |
| the decompressor (the real mode entry point goes to the same 32bit | |
| entry point once it switched into protected mode). That entry point | |
| supports one calling convention which is documented in | |
| Documentation/x86/boot.txt | |
| The physical pointer to the device-tree block (defined in chapter II) | |
| is passed via setup_data which requires at least boot protocol 2.09. | |
| The type filed is defined as | |
| #define SETUP_DTB 2 | |
| This device-tree is used as an extension to the "boot page". As such it | |
| does not parse / consider data which is already covered by the boot | |
| page. This includes memory size, reserved ranges, command line arguments | |
| or initrd address. It simply holds information which can not be retrieved | |
| otherwise like interrupt routing or a list of devices behind an I2C bus. | |
| 4) Entry point for arch/mips/bmips | |
| ---------------------------------- | |
| Some bootloaders only support a single entry point, at the start of the | |
| kernel image. Other bootloaders will jump to the ELF start address. | |
| Both schemes are supported; CONFIG_BOOT_RAW=y and CONFIG_NO_EXCEPT_FILL=y, | |
| so the first instruction immediately jumps to kernel_entry(). | |
| Similar to the arch/arm case (b), a DT-aware bootloader is expected to | |
| set up the following registers: | |
| a0 : 0 | |
| a1 : 0xffffffff | |
| a2 : Physical pointer to the device tree block (defined in chapter | |
| II) in RAM. The device tree can be located anywhere in the first | |
| 512MB of the physical address space (0x00000000 - 0x1fffffff), | |
| aligned on a 64 bit boundary. | |
| Legacy bootloaders do not use this convention, and they do not pass in a | |
| DT block. In this case, Linux will look for a builtin DTB, selected via | |
| CONFIG_DT_*. | |
| This convention is defined for 32-bit systems only, as there are not | |
| currently any 64-bit BMIPS implementations. | |
| 5) Entry point for arch/sh | |
| -------------------------- | |
| Device-tree-compatible SH bootloaders are expected to provide the physical | |
| address of the device tree blob in r4. Since legacy bootloaders did not | |
| guarantee any particular initial register state, kernels built to | |
| inter-operate with old bootloaders must either use a builtin DTB or | |
| select a legacy board option (something other than CONFIG_SH_DEVICE_TREE) | |
| that does not use device tree. Support for the latter is being phased out | |
| in favor of device tree. | |
| 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 passed the physical address pointing to an area of memory | |
| that is roughly described in include/linux/of_fdt.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 physical base address of the device tree block. | |
| - 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 information 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): | |
| ------------------------------ | |
| base -> | struct boot_param_header | | |
| ------------------------------ | |
| | (alignment gap) (*) | | |
| ------------------------------ | |
| | memory reserve map | | |
| ------------------------------ | |
| | (alignment gap) | | |
| ------------------------------ | |
| | | | |
| | device-tree structure | | |
| | | | |
| ------------------------------ | |
| | (alignment gap) | | |
| ------------------------------ | |
| | | | |
| | device-tree strings | | |
| | | | |
| -----> ------------------------------ | |
| | | |
| | | |
| --- (base + 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 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 "compatible" property indicating the | |
| specific hardware and an optional list of devices it is fully | |
| backwards compatible with. | |
| Finally, every node that can be referenced from a property in another | |
| node is required to have either a "phandle" or 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. | |
| The "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 <content> | |
| represents a 32-bit value, specified in decimal or hexadecimal (the | |
| latter prefixed 0x). 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 = <0x5f5e1000> | |
| | |- 64-bit | |
| | |- linux,phandle = <2> | |
| | | |
| o memory@0 | |
| | |- name = "memory" | |
| | |- device_type = "memory" | |
| | |- reg = <0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x20000000> | |
| | |- 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 information 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 buses 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 buses 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 new 64-bit board support, 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 board support 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 | |
| - 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 specify the exact board model in the | |
| compatible property followed by an entry that represents the SoC | |
| model. | |
| 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. | |
| Additional properties for the root node: | |
| - serial-number : a string representing the device's serial number | |
| 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 to call it <architecture>,<core>. For | |
| example, Apple uses PowerPC,G5 while IBM uses PowerPC,970FX. | |
| However, the Generic Names convention suggests that it would be | |
| better to simply use 'cpu' for each cpu node and use the compatible | |
| property to identify the specific cpu core. | |
| 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. | |
| 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<SOCname> 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: | |
| - 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. | |
| - compatible : Exact model of the SoC | |
| 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 = <0x00000000 0xe0000000 0x00100000> | |
| reg = <0xe0000000 0x00003000>; | |
| bus-frequency = <0>; | |
| } | |
| IV - "dtc", the device tree compiler | |
| ==================================== | |
| dtc source code can be found at | |
| <http://git.jdl.com/gitweb/?p=dtc.git> | |
| 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 block 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 <input-format>] [-O <output-format>] | |
| [-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 = <0x1234abcd>; /* define a property containing a | |
| * numerical 32-bit value (hexadecimal) | |
| */ | |
| property3 = <0x12345678 0x12345678 0xdeadbeef>; | |
| /* define a property containing 3 | |
| * numerical 32-bit values (cells) in | |
| * hexadecimal | |
| */ | |
| property4 = [0x0a 0x0b 0x0c 0x0d 0xde 0xea 0xad 0xbe 0xef]; | |
| /* define a property whose content is | |
| * an arbitrary array of bytes | |
| */ | |
| childnode@address { /* 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 drivers/of/fdt.c. Look at the of_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. | |
| (reference needed; who is 'I' here? ---gcl Jan 31, 2011) | |
| 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 defined as part of the Open Firmware specifications, | |
| mainly because the boards that contain these SoCs are not currently | |
| booted using Open Firmware. Binding documentation for new devices | |
| should be added to the Documentation/devicetree/bindings directory. | |
| That directory will expand as device tree support is added to more and | |
| more SoCs. | |
| VII - Specifying interrupt information for devices | |
| =================================================== | |
| The device tree represents the buses 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: | |
| <http://www.openfirmware.org/ofwg/practice/> | |
| 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, its | |
| 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 | |
| VIII - 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). | |
| IX - Specifying dma bus information | |
| Some devices may have DMA memory range shifted relatively to the beginning of | |
| RAM, or even placed outside of kernel RAM. For example, the Keystone 2 SoC | |
| worked in LPAE mode with 4G memory has: | |
| - RAM range: [0x8 0000 0000, 0x8 FFFF FFFF] | |
| - DMA range: [ 0x8000 0000, 0xFFFF FFFF] | |
| and DMA range is aliased into first 2G of RAM in HW. | |
| In such cases, DMA addresses translation should be performed between CPU phys | |
| and DMA addresses. The "dma-ranges" property is intended to be used | |
| for describing the configuration of such system in DT. | |
| In addition, each DMA master device on the DMA bus may or may not support | |
| coherent DMA operations. The "dma-coherent" property is intended to be used | |
| for identifying devices supported coherent DMA operations in DT. | |
| * DMA Bus master | |
| Optional property: | |
| - dma-ranges: <prop-encoded-array> encoded as arbitrary number of triplets of | |
| (child-bus-address, parent-bus-address, length). Each triplet specified | |
| describes a contiguous DMA address range. | |
| The dma-ranges property is used to describe the direct memory access (DMA) | |
| structure of a memory-mapped bus whose device tree parent can be accessed | |
| from DMA operations originating from the bus. It provides a means of | |
| defining a mapping or translation between the physical address space of | |
| the bus and the physical address space of the parent of the bus. | |
| (for more information see ePAPR specification) | |
| * DMA Bus child | |
| Optional property: | |
| - dma-ranges: <empty> value. if present - It means that DMA addresses | |
| translation has to be enabled for this device. | |
| - dma-coherent: Present if dma operations are coherent | |
| Example: | |
| soc { | |
| compatible = "ti,keystone","simple-bus"; | |
| ranges = <0x0 0x0 0x0 0xc0000000>; | |
| dma-ranges = <0x80000000 0x8 0x00000000 0x80000000>; | |
| [...] | |
| usb: usb@2680000 { | |
| compatible = "ti,keystone-dwc3"; | |
| [...] | |
| dma-coherent; | |
| }; | |
| }; | |
| 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 = [ 0x00 0xE0 0x0C 0x00 0x73 0x00 ]; | |
| interrupts = <0x29 2 0x30 2 0x34 2>; | |
| phy-handle = <&phy0>; | |
| sleep = <&pmc 0x00000080>; | |
| ranges; | |
| mdio@24520 { | |
| reg = <0x24520 0x20>; | |
| compatible = "fsl,gianfar-mdio"; | |
| phy0: ethernet-phy@0 { | |
| interrupts = <5 1>; | |
| reg = <0>; | |
| }; | |
| phy1: ethernet-phy@1 { | |
| interrupts = <5 1>; | |
| reg = <1>; | |
| }; | |
| phy3: ethernet-phy@3 { | |
| interrupts = <7 1>; | |
| reg = <3>; | |
| }; | |
| }; | |
| }; | |
| ethernet@25000 { | |
| device_type = "network"; | |
| model = "TSEC"; | |
| compatible = "gianfar"; | |
| reg = <0x25000 0x1000>; | |
| local-mac-address = [ 0x00 0xE0 0x0C 0x00 0x73 0x01 ]; | |
| interrupts = <0x13 2 0x14 2 0x18 2>; | |
| phy-handle = <&phy1>; | |
| sleep = <&pmc 0x00000040>; | |
| }; | |
| ethernet@26000 { | |
| device_type = "network"; | |
| model = "FEC"; | |
| compatible = "gianfar"; | |
| reg = <0x26000 0x1000>; | |
| local-mac-address = [ 0x00 0xE0 0x0C 0x00 0x73 0x02 ]; | |
| interrupts = <0x41 2>; | |
| phy-handle = <&phy3>; | |
| sleep = <&pmc 0x00000020>; | |
| }; | |
| serial@4500 { | |
| #address-cells = <1>; | |
| #size-cells = <1>; | |
| compatible = "fsl,mpc8540-duart", "simple-bus"; | |
| sleep = <&pmc 0x00000002>; | |
| ranges; | |
| serial@4500 { | |
| device_type = "serial"; | |
| compatible = "ns16550"; | |
| reg = <0x4500 0x100>; | |
| clock-frequency = <0>; | |
| interrupts = <0x42 2>; | |
| }; | |
| serial@4600 { | |
| device_type = "serial"; | |
| compatible = "ns16550"; | |
| reg = <0x4600 0x100>; | |
| clock-frequency = <0>; | |
| interrupts = <0x42 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 = <0x43 2>; | |
| reg = <0x3000 0x100>; | |
| compatible = "fsl-i2c"; | |
| dfsrr; | |
| sleep = <&pmc 0x00000004>; | |
| }; | |
| pmc: power@e0070 { | |
| compatible = "fsl,mpc8540-pmc", "fsl,mpc8548-pmc"; | |
| reg = <0xe0070 0x20>; | |
| }; | |
| }; |