linux/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/uniphier-system-bus.txt
Masahiro Yamada 4b7f48d395 bus: uniphier-system-bus: add UniPhier System Bus driver
The UniPhier System Bus is an external bus that connects on-board
devices to the UniPhier SoC.  Each bank (chip select) is dynamically
mapped to the CPU-viewed address base via the bus controller.  The
bus controller must be configured before any access to the bus.

This driver parses the "ranges" property of the System Bus node and
initialized the bus controller.  After the bus becomes ready, devices
below it are populated.

Note:
Each bank can be mapped anywhere in the supported address space;
there is nothing preventing us from assigning bank 0 on 0x42000000,
0x43000000, or anywhere as long as such region is not used by others.
So, the "ranges" is just one possible software configuration, which
does not seem to fit in device tree because device tree is a hardware
description language.  However, of_translate_address() requires
"ranges" in every bus node between CPUs and device mapped on the CPU
address space.  In other words, "ranges" properties must be statically
defined in device tree.  After some discussion, I decided the dynamic
address reassignment by the driver is too bothersome.  Instead, the
device tree should provide a reasonable translation setup that the OS
can rely on.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
2015-12-22 11:22:39 -08:00

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UniPhier System Bus
The UniPhier System Bus is an external bus that connects on-board devices to
the UniPhier SoC. It is a simple (semi-)parallel bus with address, data, and
some control signals. It supports up to 8 banks (chip selects).
Before any access to the bus, the bus controller must be configured; the bus
controller registers provide the control for the translation from the offset
within each bank to the CPU-viewed address. The needed setup includes the base
address, the size of each bank. Optionally, some timing parameters can be
optimized for faster bus access.
Required properties:
- compatible: should be "socionext,uniphier-system-bus".
- reg: offset and length of the register set for the bus controller device.
- #address-cells: should be 2. The first cell is the bank number (chip select).
The second cell is the address offset within the bank.
- #size-cells: should be 1.
- ranges: should provide a proper address translation from the System Bus to
the parent bus.
Note:
The address region(s) that can be assigned for the System Bus is implementation
defined. Some SoCs can use 0x00000000-0x0fffffff and 0x40000000-0x4fffffff,
while other SoCs can only use 0x40000000-0x4fffffff. There might be additional
limitations depending on SoCs and the boot mode. The address translation is
arbitrary as long as the banks are assigned in the supported address space with
the required alignment and they do not overlap one another.
For example, it is possible to map:
bank 0 to 0x42000000-0x43ffffff, bank 5 to 0x46000000-0x46ffffff
It is also possible to map:
bank 0 to 0x48000000-0x49ffffff, bank 5 to 0x44000000-0x44ffffff
There is no reason to stick to a particular translation mapping, but the
"ranges" property should provide a "reasonable" default that is known to work.
The software should initialize the bus controller according to it.
Example:
system-bus {
compatible = "socionext,uniphier-system-bus";
reg = <0x58c00000 0x400>;
#address-cells = <2>;
#size-cells = <1>;
ranges = <1 0x00000000 0x42000000 0x02000000
5 0x00000000 0x46000000 0x01000000>;
ethernet@1,01f00000 {
compatible = "smsc,lan9115";
reg = <1 0x01f00000 0x1000>;
interrupts = <0 48 4>
phy-mode = "mii";
};
uart@5,00200000 {
compatible = "ns16550a";
reg = <5 0x00200000 0x20>;
interrupts = <0 49 4>
clock-frequency = <12288000>;
};
};
In this example,
- the Ethernet device is connected at the offset 0x01f00000 of CS1 and
mapped to 0x43f00000 of the parent bus.
- the UART device is connected at the offset 0x00200000 of CS5 and
mapped to 0x46200000 of the parent bus.