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From: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <somlo@cmu.edu>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, robh+dt@kernel.org,
	pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org,
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/4] devicetree: update documentation for fw_cfg ARM bindings
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 22:03:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1447470235-13643-5-git-send-email-somlo@cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1447470235-13643-1-git-send-email-somlo@cmu.edu>

From: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>

Remove redundant details from
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt,
and replace them with a pointer to the more comprehensive
fw_cfg documentation privided by
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-qemu_fw_cfg,
leaving the specific ARM DTB node description in place.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt | 37 ++----------------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt
index 953fb64..7aeb48a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt
@@ -11,43 +11,10 @@ QEMU exposes the control and data register to ARM guests as memory mapped
 registers; their location is communicated to the guest's UEFI firmware in the
 DTB that QEMU places at the bottom of the guest's DRAM.
 
-The guest writes a selector value (a key) to the selector register, and then
-can read the corresponding data (produced by QEMU) via the data register. If
-the selected entry is writable, the guest can rewrite it through the data
-register.
 
-The selector register takes keys in big endian byte order.
+For a comprehensive description of the behavior of fw_cfg, please see
+Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-qemu_fw_cfg.
 
-The data register allows accesses with 8, 16, 32 and 64-bit width (only at
-offset 0 of the register). Accesses larger than a byte are interpreted as
-arrays, bundled together only for better performance. The bytes constituting
-such a word, in increasing address order, correspond to the bytes that would
-have been transferred by byte-wide accesses in chronological order.
-
-The interface allows guest firmware to download various parameters and blobs
-that affect how the firmware works and what tables it installs for the guest
-OS. For example, boot order of devices, ACPI tables, SMBIOS tables, kernel and
-initrd images for direct kernel booting, virtual machine UUID, SMP information,
-virtual NUMA topology, and so on.
-
-The authoritative registry of the valid selector values and their meanings is
-the QEMU source code; the structure of the data blobs corresponding to the
-individual key values is also defined in the QEMU source code.
-
-The presence of the registers can be verified by selecting the "signature" blob
-with key 0x0000, and reading four bytes from the data register. The returned
-signature is "QEMU".
-
-The outermost protocol (involving the write / read sequences of the control and
-data registers) is expected to be versioned, and/or described by feature bits.
-The interface revision / feature bitmap can be retrieved with key 0x0001. The
-blob to be read from the data register has size 4, and it is to be interpreted
-as a uint32_t value in little endian byte order. The current value
-(corresponding to the above outer protocol) is zero.
-
-The guest kernel is not expected to use these registers (although it is
-certainly allowed to); the device tree bindings are documented here because
-this is where device tree bindings reside in general.
 
 Required properties:
 
-- 
2.4.3

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-14  3:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-14  3:03 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/4] SysFS driver for QEMU fw_cfg device Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-11-14  3:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's " Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-11-14  3:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/4] kobject: export kset_find_obj() for module use Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-11-14  3:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 3/4] firmware: create directory hierarchy for sysfs fw_cfg entries Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-11-14  3:03 ` Gabriel L. Somlo [this message]
2015-11-15  2:07   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/4] devicetree: update documentation for fw_cfg ARM bindings Rob Herring
2015-11-16  8:38     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-11-16 13:51       ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-11-17 22:14       ` Rob Herring
2015-11-18  2:17         ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-11-18 13:04         ` François Revol
2015-11-18 20:54           ` Gabriel L. Somlo

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