Re: [PATCH] stmmac: Add device-tree support

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

On Monday 12 March 2012 16:30:37 Giuseppe CAVALLARO wrote:
> >>> +Required properties:
> >>> +- compatible: Should be "stm,gmac"
> >> 
> >> This is too generic. This should be 1 string per version of h/w.
> > 
> > Viresh, Giuseppe, can you please suggest a proper string for the SPEAr600
> > STMMAC core, including version?
> > 
> >> 'stm' should be 'st' according to vendor-prefixes.txt.
> 
> I'm not familiar with devicetree; maybe we should have:
> 
> "stmicro,mac100"
> "stmicro,gmac"
> 
> or: st instead of stmicro if you prefer.
> 
> in fact, stmmac is for mac100 and gmac devices.

How about "st,spear600-gmac" for SPEAr600 then?
 
> > Okay.
> > 
> >>> +- reg: Address and length of the register set for the device
> >>> +- interrupt-parent: Should be the phandle for the interrupt controller
> >>> +  that services interrupts for this device
> >>> +- interrupts: Should contain the STMMAC interrupts
> >>> +- interrupt-names: Should contain the interrupt names "macirq"
> >>> +  "eth_wake_irq" if this interrupt is supported in the "interrupts"
> >>> +  property
> >> 
> >> You should be able to tell this from the compatible string and number of
> >> interrupts.
> > 
> > Yes. Currently the driver uses platform_get_irq_byname() to register the
> > irq's. That's why I added these properties. Is there something wrong with
> > using it this way?
> > 
> >>> +- phy-mode: String, operation mode of the PHY interface.
> >>> +  Supported values are: "mii", "rmii", "gmii", "rgmii".
> >>> +- phy-addr: MDIO address of the PHY
> >> 
> >> This is normally probed or the mdio bus is a sub-node of the MAC node.
> >> See arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8377_mds.dts for an example.
> > 
> > Okay, I'll rework this.
> > 
> >>> +
> >>> +Optional properties:
> >>> +- stm,prog-burst-len: Specify the burst length
> >>> +- stm,has-gmac: Indicates that the controller supports 1000Mbps
> >>> +- stm,has-pmt: Indicates that the controller supports power management
> >> 
> >> I think these should all be encoded by the compatible string.
> 
> and should we have all the other flags e.g. tx_coe etc?
> (see stmmac.txt)

As Rob suggested, some of these flags/parameters are implicitly defined by the 
compatible string. If this is not the case, then sure, those flags/parameters 
need to be provided via the device-tree as well. I just don't need "tx_coe" 
etc. for my platform (SPEAr600) as far as I know. I suggest to add support for 
them once they are really needed/used by other platforms.

Thanks,
Stefan