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ARM: at91: Document new TCB bindings
authorAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Wed, 8 Jun 2016 13:16:49 +0000 (15:16 +0200)
committerAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Sun, 31 Dec 2017 14:50:00 +0000 (15:50 +0100)
The current binding for the TCB is not flexible enough for some use cases
and prevents proper utilization of all the channels.

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/atmel-at91.txt
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel-tcb.txt [new file with mode: 0644]

index 91cb8e4..31220b5 100644 (file)
@@ -90,38 +90,6 @@ System Timer (ST) required properties:
 Its subnodes can be:
 - watchdog: compatible should be "atmel,at91rm9200-wdt"
 
-TC/TCLIB Timer required properties:
-- compatible: Should be "atmel,<chip>-tcb".
-  <chip> can be "at91rm9200" or "at91sam9x5"
-- reg: Should contain registers location and length
-- interrupts: Should contain all interrupts for the TC block
-  Note that you can specify several interrupt cells if the TC
-  block has one interrupt per channel.
-- clock-names: tuple listing input clock names.
-       Required elements: "t0_clk", "slow_clk"
-       Optional elements: "t1_clk", "t2_clk"
-- clocks: phandles to input clocks.
-
-Examples:
-
-One interrupt per TC block:
-       tcb0: timer@fff7c000 {
-               compatible = "atmel,at91rm9200-tcb";
-               reg = <0xfff7c000 0x100>;
-               interrupts = <18 4>;
-               clocks = <&tcb0_clk>;
-               clock-names = "t0_clk";
-       };
-
-One interrupt per TC channel in a TC block:
-       tcb1: timer@fffdc000 {
-               compatible = "atmel,at91rm9200-tcb";
-               reg = <0xfffdc000 0x100>;
-               interrupts = <26 4 27 4 28 4>;
-               clocks = <&tcb1_clk>;
-               clock-names = "t0_clk";
-       };
-
 RSTC Reset Controller required properties:
 - compatible: Should be "atmel,<chip>-rstc".
   <chip> can be "at91sam9260" or "at91sam9g45" or "sama5d3"
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel-tcb.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel-tcb.txt
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..c4a83e3
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+* Device tree bindings for Atmel Timer Counter Blocks
+- compatible: Should be "atmel,<chip>-tcb", "simple-mfd", "syscon".
+  <chip> can be "at91rm9200" or "at91sam9x5"
+- reg: Should contain registers location and length
+- #address-cells: has to be 1
+- #size-cells: has to be 0
+- interrupts: Should contain all interrupts for the TC block
+  Note that you can specify several interrupt cells if the TC
+  block has one interrupt per channel.
+- clock-names: tuple listing input clock names.
+       Required elements: "t0_clk", "slow_clk"
+       Optional elements: "t1_clk", "t2_clk"
+- clocks: phandles to input clocks.
+
+The TCB can expose multiple subdevices:
+ * a timer
+   - compatible: Should be "atmel,tcb-timer"
+   - reg: Should contain the TCB channels to be used. If the
+     counter width is 16 bits (at91rm9200-tcb), two consecutive
+     channels are needed. Else, only one channel will be used.
+
+Examples:
+
+One interrupt per TC block:
+       tcb0: timer@fff7c000 {
+               compatible = "atmel,at91rm9200-tcb", "simple-mfd", "syscon";
+               #address-cells = <1>;
+               #size-cells = <0>;
+               reg = <0xfff7c000 0x100>;
+               interrupts = <18 4>;
+               clocks = <&tcb0_clk>, <&clk32k>;
+               clock-names = "t0_clk", "slow_clk";
+
+               timer@0 {
+                       compatible = "atmel,tcb-timer";
+                       reg = <0>, <1>;
+               };
+
+               timer@2 {
+                       compatible = "atmel,tcb-timer";
+                       reg = <2>;
+               };
+       };
+
+One interrupt per TC channel in a TC block:
+       tcb1: timer@fffdc000 {
+               compatible = "atmel,at91rm9200-tcb", "simple-mfd", "syscon";
+               #address-cells = <1>;
+               #size-cells = <0>;
+               reg = <0xfffdc000 0x100>;
+               interrupts = <26 4>, <27 4>, <28 4>;
+               clocks = <&tcb1_clk>, <&clk32k>;
+               clock-names = "t0_clk", "slow_clk";
+       };
+
+