Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:15:35 +0530 | Subject | Re: [Patch v3 3/9] dt-bindings: arm: tegra: Add NVIDIA Tegra194 axi2apb binding | From | Sumit Gupta <> |
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>>>>> Add device-tree binding documentation to represent the axi2apb bridges >>>>> used by Control Backbone (CBB) 1.0 in Tegra194 SOC. All errors for APB >>>>> slaves are reported as slave error because APB bas single bit to report >>>>> error. So, CBB driver needs to further check error status registers of >>>>> all the axi2apb bridges to find error type. >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Sumit Gupta<sumitg@nvidia.com> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding<treding@nvidia.com> >>>>> --- >>>>> .../arm/tegra/nvidia,tegra194-axi2apb.yaml | 40 +++++++++++++++++++ >>>>> 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) >>>>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/tegra/nvidia,tegra194-axi2apb.yaml >>>>> >>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/tegra/nvidia,tegra194-axi2apb.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/tegra/nvidia,tegra194-axi2apb.yaml >>>>> new file mode 100644 >>>>> index 000000000000..788a13f8aa93 >>>>> --- /dev/null >>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/tegra/nvidia,tegra194-axi2apb.yaml >>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ >>>>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause) >>>>> +%YAML 1.2 >>>>> +--- >>>>> +$id:"http://devicetree.org/schemas/arm/tegra/nvidia,tegra194-axi2apb.yaml#" >>>>> +$schema:"http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#" >>>>> + >>>>> +title: NVIDIA Tegra194 AXI2APB bridge >>>>> + >>>>> +maintainers: >>>>> + - Sumit Gupta<sumitg@nvidia.com> >>>>> + >>>>> +properties: >>>>> + $nodename: >>>>> + pattern: "^axi2apb@([0-9a-f]+)$" >>>>> + >>>>> + compatible: >>>>> + enum: >>>>> + - nvidia,tegra194-axi2apb >>>>> + >>>>> + reg: >>>>> + maxItems: 6 >>>>> + description: Physical base address and length of registers for all bridges >>>>> + >>>>> +additionalProperties: false >>>>> + >>>>> +required: >>>>> + - compatible >>>>> + - reg >>>>> + >>>>> +examples: >>>>> + - | >>>>> + axi2apb: axi2apb@2390000 { >>>> As axi2apb appears to be a bus, then all the child nodes (APB devices) >>>> should be under this node. >>> axi2apb is a bridge which coverts an AXI to APB interface and not a bus. >> A bus and bridge node are pretty much one and the same in DT >> representation. A PCI host bridge has a PCI bus beneath it for >> example. > Sorry for taking so long to reply, this fell through the cracks. > > These aren't really bridges as such. CBB (which we call /bus@0 in DT) is > a sort of large container for all IP. Within that there are various shim > layers that connect these "legacy" interfaces to CBB. I suppose you > could call them bridges, but it's a bit of a stretch. From a software > point of view there is no observable translation happening. The only > reason why we need this is for improved error reporting. > > The TRM also doesn't make a distinction between the various bridges. The > devices are all just mapped into a single address space via the CBB. > > My understanding is that this is also gone in newer chips, so matters > become a bit simpler there. > > Reorganizing /bus@0 into multiple bridges and busses would be a lot of > churn and likely confuse people that want to correlate what's in the TRM > to what's in DT, so I don't think it's worth it. > > For newer chips we may want to keep this in mind so we structure the DT > more accurately from the beginning, though as I said, things have been > simplified a bit, so this may not be an issue anymore. > > Thierry
Hi Thierry, Thank you for answering the concern.
Hi Rob, Can you please ACK to help queue the patch series for next.
Regards, Sumit
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