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From: Jinseob Kim <kimjinseob88@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: "David Lechner" <dlechner@baylibre.com>,
	"Nuno Sá" <nuno.sa@analog.com>,
	"Andy Shevchenko" <andy@kernel.org>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Shuah Khan" <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Jinseob Kim" <kimjinseob88@gmail.com>,
	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC v6 2/5] Documentation: iio: add Open Sensor Fusion driver overview
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:13:34 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260628191337.937-3-kimjinseob88@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260628191337.937-1-kimjinseob88@gmail.com>

Document the Linux IIO mapping for Open Sensor Fusion devices.

The overview explains that sensor channels are discovered at runtime
from mandatory capability reports. It also documents that OSF0 is a
wire-format detail and that protocol_major and protocol_minor carry
protocol compatibility information.

Signed-off-by: Jinseob Kim <kimjinseob88@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/iio/index.rst              |  1 +
 Documentation/iio/open-sensor-fusion.rst | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 MAINTAINERS                              |  1 +
 3 files changed, 74 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/iio/open-sensor-fusion.rst

diff --git a/Documentation/iio/index.rst b/Documentation/iio/index.rst
index ba3e609c6..2713ec5e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/iio/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/iio/index.rst
@@ -38,4 +38,5 @@ Industrial I/O Kernel Drivers
    adxl345
    bno055
    ep93xx_adc
+   open-sensor-fusion
    opt4060
diff --git a/Documentation/iio/open-sensor-fusion.rst b/Documentation/iio/open-sensor-fusion.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..832901f5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/iio/open-sensor-fusion.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+Open Sensor Fusion
+==================
+
+Open Sensor Fusion is a sensor aggregation hub interface. The Linux IIO driver
+receives OSF protocol frames from an attached device and registers matching IIO
+devices for the sensor classes supported by the driver. The actual sensor
+channels are discovered at runtime from mandatory OSF capability reports.
+
+This document is a driver-facing overview for the Linux IIO mapping. The full
+wire protocol, firmware behavior, and hardware model details belong in the Open
+Sensor Fusion project documentation.
+
+Device Model
+------------
+
+An OSF device sends binary frames from the device to the host. Devices using the
+``opensensorfusion,osf`` compatible are expected to provide
+``CAPABILITY_REPORT`` messages so the host can discover which sensor streams are
+available. Device Tree describes the attached OSF sensor aggregation hub; it does
+not enumerate the individual sensors discovered at runtime.
+
+The currently supported Linux subset exposes:
+
+* accelerometer samples as ``IIO_ACCEL`` X/Y/Z channels,
+* gyroscope samples as ``IIO_ANGL_VEL`` X/Y/Z channels,
+* magnetometer samples as ``IIO_MAGN`` X/Y/Z channels, and
+* temperature samples as ``IIO_TEMP``.
+
+Protocol Scope
+---------------
+
+The driver supports OSF protocol major version 0 for the initial IIO receive
+path. The current wire magic is ``OSF0``; that string is a wire-format detail and
+is not the Linux driver identity. Device Tree keeps the generic
+``opensensorfusion,osf`` compatible rather than naming a product such as OSF
+GREEN or a wire magic value.
+
+Protocol versioning is carried by the ``protocol_major`` and ``protocol_minor``
+fields at fixed offsets in the OSF frame header. The driver currently
+supports ``protocol_major`` 0. ``protocol_minor`` changes within major version
+0 are intended to remain backward-compatible within the fixed header layout.
+Incompatible wire-format changes require a new ``protocol_major``. A future
+device that cannot expose compatible version discovery through that fixed
+header layout would need a different Device Tree compatible.
+
+The initial Linux driver handles device-to-host frames for:
+
+* ``SENSOR_SAMPLE`` buffered and direct-mode sample data,
+* ``CAPABILITY_REPORT`` based IIO device registration, and
+* ``DEVICE_STATUS`` cache updates.
+
+Vendor-private message types are ignored. Command transport, calibration
+control ABI, fusion output ABI, and runtime capability removal are outside the
+initial Linux IIO receive path.
+
+Timestamps
+----------
+
+OSF frames include a device-side ``timestamp_us`` field. Buffered IIO samples use
+an IIO timestamp captured on the host when samples are pushed to IIO buffers.
+The initial driver does not correlate the device timestamp with the host IIO
+clock.
+
+Compatibility Notes
+-------------------
+
+The project protocol documentation should define the compatibility rules for
+reserved fields, optional flags, and trailing extension data. Until those rules
+are finalized, the Linux decoder keeps conservative bounds checks around the
+currently supported message layouts.
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index e4df9d8dc..17c80b55b 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -20015,6 +20015,7 @@ OPEN SENSOR FUSION
 M:	Jinseob Kim <kimjinseob88@gmail.com>
 S:	Maintained
 F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/opensensorfusion,osf.yaml
+F:	Documentation/iio/open-sensor-fusion.rst
 K:	opensensorfusion
 
 OPENCOMPUTE PTP CLOCK DRIVER
-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-28 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-28 19:13 [PATCH RFC v6 0/5] iio: add Open Sensor Fusion IIO driver Jinseob Kim
2026-06-28 19:13 ` [PATCH RFC v6 1/5] dt-bindings: iio: add Open Sensor Fusion device Jinseob Kim
2026-06-28 19:13 ` Jinseob Kim [this message]
2026-06-28 19:13 ` [PATCH RFC v6 3/5] iio: osf: add protocol decoding Jinseob Kim
2026-06-28 19:13 ` [PATCH RFC v6 4/5] iio: osf: add authenticated stream parser Jinseob Kim
2026-06-28 19:13 ` [PATCH RFC v6 5/5] iio: osf: add UART IIO driver Jinseob Kim

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