[PATCH v4] devicetree: Add generic IOMMU device tree bindings

[will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 02:23:50PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:04:25PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 04:29:17PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
> > > 
> > > This commit introduces a generic device tree binding for IOMMU devices.
> > > Only a very minimal subset is described here, but it is enough to cover
> > > the requirements of both the Exynos System MMU and Tegra SMMU as
> > > discussed here:
> > > 
> > >     https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/27/346
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
> > > ---
> > > Changes in v4:
> > > - clarify that disabling an IOMMU DT node may not disable translation
> > > - be more explicit that examples are only examples
> > > - add multi-ID master example
> > > 
> > > Changes in v3:
> > > - use #iommu-cells instead of #address-cells/#size-cells
> > > - drop optional iommu-names property
> > > 
> > > Changes in v2:
> > > - add notes about "dma-ranges" property (drop note from commit message)
> > > - document priorities of "iommus" property vs. "dma-ranges" property
> > > - drop #iommu-cells in favour of #address-cells and #size-cells
> > > - remove multiple-master device example
> > > 
> > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/iommu.txt | 172 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 172 insertions(+)
> > >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/iommu.txt
> > 
> > I'm concerned that this patch hasn't been picked up for 3.17 (I can't see it
> > in -next). If we want to move the ARM SMMU driver over to this new binding,
> > we can't keep dragging our feet for much longer as I *really* don't plan to
> > support two bindings in parallel (one is complicated enough already).
> > 
> > Any chance we can see this merged, please?
> 
> I think there weren't any comments left for me to address and I've
> mostly been waiting for Joerg to pick it up.
> 
> Joerg, can you take this through the iommu tree for 3.17? Will acked
> this, but perhaps you were waiting for an ACK from the device tree
> bindings maintainers?

Rob, Mark: can one or both of you take a look at this please?

Cheers,

Will