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diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt index d42d98107d49..76733a3962f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt @@ -42,15 +42,16 @@ Table of Contents 1) Defining child nodes of an SOC 2) Representing devices without a current OF specification a) MDIO IO device - c) PHY nodes b) Gianfar-compatible ethernet nodes + c) PHY nodes d) Interrupt controllers e) I2C f) Freescale SOC USB controllers g) Freescale SOC SEC Security Engines h) Board Control and Status (BCSR) i) Freescale QUICC Engine module (QE) - g) Flash chip nodes + j) Flash chip nodes + k) Global Utilities Block VII - Specifying interrupt information for devices 1) interrupts property @@ -626,6 +627,14 @@ 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, @@ -1241,6 +1250,12 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model. network device. This is used by the bootwrapper to interpret MAC addresses passed by the firmware when no information other than indices is available to associate an address with a device. + - phy-connection-type : a string naming the controller/PHY interface type, + i.e., "mii" (default), "rmii", "gmii", "rgmii", "rgmii-id", "sgmii", + "tbi", or "rtbi". This property is only really needed if the connection + is of type "rgmii-id", as all other connection types are detected by + hardware. + Example: @@ -1782,6 +1797,33 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model. partition-names = "fs\0firmware"; }; + k) Global Utilities Block + + The global utilities block controls power management, I/O device + enabling, power-on-reset configuration monitoring, general-purpose + I/O signal configuration, alternate function selection for multiplexed + signals, and clock control. + + Required properties: + + - compatible : Should define the compatible device type for + global-utilities. + - reg : Offset and length of the register set for the device. + + Recommended properties: + + - fsl,has-rstcr : Indicates that the global utilities register set + contains a functioning "reset control register" (i.e. the board + is wired to reset upon setting the HRESET_REQ bit in this register). + + Example: + + global-utilities@e0000 { /* global utilities block */ + compatible = "fsl,mpc8548-guts"; + reg = <e0000 1000>; + fsl,has-rstcr; + }; + More devices will be defined as this spec matures. VII - Specifying interrupt information for devices |