• [PATCH v1 3/5] dt-bindings: Add DT bindings for NVIDIA Tegra AHB DM

    From Stephen Warren@21:1/5 to Dmitry Osipenko on Mon Oct 2 22:50:10 2017
    On 09/29/2017 09:11 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
    On 29.09.2017 22:30, Stephen Warren wrote:
    On 09/27/2017 02:34 AM, Jon Hunter wrote:

    On 27/09/17 02:57, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
    On 26.09.2017 17:50, Jon Hunter wrote:

    On 26/09/17 00:22, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
    Document DT bindings for NVIDIA Tegra AHB DMA controller that presents >>>>>> on Tegra20/30 SoC's.

    Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
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      .../bindings/dma/nvidia,tegra20-ahbdma.txt         | 23 >>>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++
      1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
      create mode 100644
    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/nvidia,tegra20-ahbdma.txt

    diff --git
    a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/nvidia,tegra20-ahbdma.txt
    b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/nvidia,tegra20-ahbdma.txt
    new file mode 100644
    index 000000000000..2af9aa76ae11
    --- /dev/null
    +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/nvidia,tegra20-ahbdma.txt >>>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
    +* NVIDIA Tegra AHB DMA controller
    +
    +Required properties:
    +- compatible:    Must be "nvidia,tegra20-ahbdma"
    +- reg:        Should contain registers base address and length. >>>>>> +- interrupts:    Should contain one entry, DMA controller interrupt. >>>>>> +- clocks:    Should contain one entry, DMA controller clock.
    +- resets :    Should contain one entry, DMA controller reset.
    +- #dma-cells:    Should be <1>. The cell represents DMA request select value
    +        for the peripheral. For more details consult the Tegra TRM's
    +        documentation, in particular AHB DMA channel control register
    +        REQ_SEL field.

    What about the TRIG_SEL field? Do we need to handle this here as well? >>>>>

    Actually, DMA transfer trigger isn't related a hardware description. It's up to
    software to decide what trigger to select. So it shouldn't be in the binding.

    I think it could be, if say a board wanted a GPIO to trigger a transfer. >>>
    And I think the same applies to requester... any objections?

    Well, the REQ_SEL should definitely be in the binding.

    Laxman, Stephen, what are your thoughts on the TRIG_SEL field? Looks
    like we never bothered with it for the APB DMA and so maybe no ones uses >>> this.

    I don't think TRIG_SEL should be in the binding, at least at present. While >> TRIG_SEL certainly is something used to configure the transfer, I believe the
    semantics of the current DMA binding only cover DMA transfers that are initiated
    when SW desires, rather than being a combination of after SW programs the
    transfer plus some other HW event. So, we always use a default/hard-coded
    TRIG_SEL value. As such, there's no need for a TRIG_SEL value in DT. There's >> certainly no known use-case that requires a non-default TRIG_SEL value at
    present. We could add an extra #dma-cells value later if we find a use for it,
    and the semantics of that use-case make sense to add it to the DMA specifier,
    rather than some other separate higher-level property/driver/...

    Thank you for the comment. If we'd want to extend the binding further with the
    trigger, how to differentiate trigger from the requester in a case of a single
    #data-cell?

    Of course realistically a chance that the further extension would be needed is
    very-very low, so we may defer the efforts to solve that question and for now make driver aware of the potential #dma-cells extension.

    The request selector cell isn't optional, so is always present. If we
    later add an optional trig_sel cell, we'll either have:

    #dma-cells=<1>: req_sel

    or:

    #dma-cells=<2>: req_sel, trig_sel

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