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From: Varka Bhadram <varkabhadram@gmail.com>
To: Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@freescale.com>,
	broonie@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com
Cc: robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com,
	ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 2/2] dt/bindings: Add the DT binding documentation for endianness
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:03:24 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C4BD24.9000503@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1405398183-31345-3-git-send-email-Li.Xiubo@freescale.com>

On 07/15/2014 09:53 AM, Xiubo Li wrote:
> Device-Tree binding for device endianness
> Index     Device     Endianness properties
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 1         BE         'big-endian'
> 2         LE         'little-endian'
>
> For one device driver, which will run in different scenarios above
> on different SoCs using the devicetree, we need one way to simplify
> this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@freescale.com>
> ---
>   .../devicetree/bindings/regmap/regmap.txt          | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regmap/regmap.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regmap/regmap.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regmap/regmap.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..b494f8b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regmap/regmap.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
> +Device-Tree binding for regmap
> +
> +The endianness mode of CPU & Device scenarios:
> +Index     Device     Endianness properties
> +---------------------------------------------------
> +1         BE         'big-endian'
> +2         LE         'little-endian'
> +
> +For one device driver, which will run in different scenarios above
> +on different SoCs using the devicetree, we need one way to simplify
> +this.
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- {big,little}-endian: these are boolean properties, if absent
> +  meaning that the CPU and the Device are in the same endianness mode,
> +  these properties are for register values and all the buffers only.
> +

It would be more readable if its like this:
Required properties:
- {big,little}-endian:	These are boolean properties, if absent meaning
			that the CPU and the Device are in the same
			endianness mode, these propperties are for
			values and all the buffers only.

> +Examples:
> +Scenario 1 : CPU in LE mode & device in LE mode.
> +dev: dev@40031000 {
> +	      compatible = "name";
> +	      reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
> +	      ...
> +};
> +
> +Scenario 2 : CPU in LE mode & device in BE mode.
> +dev: dev@40031000 {
> +	      compatible = "name";
> +	      reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
> +	      ...
> +	      big-endian;
> +};
> +
> +Scenario 3 : CPU in BE mode & device in BE mode.
> +dev: dev@40031000 {
> +	      compatible = "name";
> +	      reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
> +	      ...
> +};
> +
> +Scenario 4 : CPU in BE mode & device in LE mode.
> +dev: dev@40031000 {
> +	      compatible = "name";
> +	      reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
> +	      ...
> +	      little-endian;
> +};


-- 
Regards,
Varka Bhadram.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-15  5:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-15  4:23 [PATCHv6 0/2] add DT endianness binding support for regmap Xiubo Li
2014-07-15  4:23 ` [PATCHv6 1/2] regmap: add DT endianness binding support Xiubo Li
2014-07-15  4:23 ` [PATCHv6 2/2] dt/bindings: Add the DT binding documentation for endianness Xiubo Li
2014-07-15  5:33   ` Varka Bhadram [this message]
     [not found]     ` <53C4BD24.9000503-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-07-15  5:36       ` Li.Xiubo-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg
     [not found]   ` <1405398183-31345-3-git-send-email-Li.Xiubo-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-20  8:05     ` Thierry Reding
2014-08-20  9:14       ` Li.Xiubo-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg
2014-08-20  9:43         ` Thierry Reding
2014-08-06  1:58 ` [PATCHv6 0/2] add DT endianness binding support for regmap Li.Xiubo
2014-08-16 13:14 ` Mark Brown

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