Add a uniform interface by which device drivers can request device
properties from the platform firmware by providing a property name
and the corresponding data type. The purpose of it is to help to
write portable code that won't depend on any particular platform
firmware interface.
The following general helper functions are added:
device_property_present()
device_property_read_u8()
device_property_read_u16()
device_property_read_u32()
device_property_read_u64()
device_property_read_string()
device_property_read_u8_array()
device_property_read_u16_array()
device_property_read_u32_array()
device_property_read_u64_array()
device_property_read_string_array()
The first one allows the caller to check if the given property is
present. The next 5 of them allow single-valued properties of
various types to be retrieved in a uniform way. The remaining 5 are
for reading properties with multiple values (arrays of either numbers
or strings).
The interface covers both ACPI and Device Trees.
This change set includes material from Mika Westerberg and Aaron Lu.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Device Tree is used in many embedded systems to describe the system
configuration to the OS. It supports attaching properties or name-value
pairs to the devices it describe. With these properties one can pass
additional information to the drivers that would not be available
otherwise.
ACPI is another configuration mechanism (among other things) typically
seen, but not limited to, x86 machines. ACPI allows passing arbitrary
data from methods but there has not been mechanism equivalent to Device
Tree until the introduction of _DSD in the recent publication of the
ACPI 5.1 specification.
In order to facilitate ACPI usage in systems where Device Tree is
typically used, it would be beneficial to standardize a way to retrieve
Device Tree style properties from ACPI devices, which is what we do in
this patch.
If a given device described in ACPI namespace wants to export properties it
must implement _DSD method (Device Specific Data, introduced with ACPI 5.1)
that returns the properties in a package of packages. For example:
Name (_DSD, Package () {
ToUUID("daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301"),
Package () {
Package () {"name1", <VALUE1>},
Package () {"name2", <VALUE2>},
...
}
})
The UUID reserved for properties is daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301
and is documented in the ACPI 5.1 companion document called "_DSD
Implementation Guide" [1], [2].
We add several helper functions that can be used to extract these
properties and convert them to different Linux data types.
The ultimate goal is that we only have one device property API that
retrieves the requested properties from Device Tree or from ACPI
transparent to the caller.
[1] http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/_DSD-implementation-guide-toplevel.htm
[2] http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/_DSD-device-properties-UUID.pdf
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
