1 Generic device tree bindings for I2C busses
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4 This document describes generic bindings which can be used to describe I2C
5 busses and their child devices in a device tree.
7 Required properties (per bus)
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10 - #address-cells - should be <1>. Read more about addresses below.
11 - #size-cells - should be <0>.
12 - compatible - name of I2C bus controller
14 For other required properties e.g. to describe register sets,
15 clocks, etc. check the binding documentation of the specific driver.
17 The cells properties above define that an address of children of an I2C bus
18 are described by a single value.
20 Optional properties (per bus)
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23 These properties may not be supported by all drivers. However, if a driver
24 wants to support one of the below features, it should adapt these bindings.
27 frequency of bus clock in Hz.
30 For I2C adapters that have child nodes that are a mixture of both I2C
31 devices and non-I2C devices, the 'i2c-bus' subnode can be used for
32 populating I2C devices. If the 'i2c-bus' subnode is present, only
33 subnodes of this will be considered as I2C slaves. The properties,
34 '#address-cells' and '#size-cells' must be defined under this subnode
37 - i2c-scl-falling-time-ns
38 Number of nanoseconds the SCL signal takes to fall; t(f) in the I2C
41 - i2c-scl-internal-delay-ns
42 Number of nanoseconds the IP core additionally needs to setup SCL.
44 - i2c-scl-rising-time-ns
45 Number of nanoseconds the SCL signal takes to rise; t(r) in the I2C
48 - i2c-sda-falling-time-ns
49 Number of nanoseconds the SDA signal takes to fall; t(f) in the I2C
53 Enable analog filter for i2c lines.
56 Enable digital filter for i2c lines.
58 - i2c-digital-filter-width-ns
59 Width of spikes which can be filtered by digital filter
60 (i2c-digital-filter). This width is specified in nanoseconds.
62 - i2c-analog-filter-cutoff-frequency
63 Frequency that the analog filter (i2c-analog-filter) uses to distinguish
64 which signal to filter. Signal with higher frequency than specified will
65 be filtered out. Only lower frequency will pass (this is applicable to
66 a low-pass analog filter). Typical value should be above the normal
67 i2c bus clock frequency (clock-frequency).
71 states that there is another master active on this bus. The OS can use
72 this information to adapt power management to keep the arbitration awake
73 all the time, for example. Can not be combined with 'single-master'.
76 add extra pinctrl to configure SCL/SDA pins to GPIO function for bus
77 recovery, call it "gpio" or "recovery" (deprecated) state
80 specify the gpio related to SCL pin. Used for GPIO bus recovery.
83 specify the gpio related to SDA pin. Optional for GPIO bus recovery.
86 states that there is no other master active on this bus. The OS can use
87 this information to detect a stalled bus more reliably, for example.
88 Can not be combined with 'multi-master'.
91 states that additional SMBus restrictions and features apply to this bus.
92 Examples of features are SMBusHostNotify and SMBusAlert. Examples of
93 restrictions are more reserved addresses and timeout definitions.
95 Required properties (per child device)
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99 name of I2C slave device
102 One or many I2C slave addresses. These are usually a 7 bit addresses.
103 However, flags can be attached to an address. I2C_TEN_BIT_ADDRESS is
104 used to mark a 10 bit address. It is needed to avoid the ambiguity
105 between e.g. a 7 bit address of 0x50 and a 10 bit address of 0x050
106 which, in theory, can be on the same bus.
107 Another flag is I2C_OWN_SLAVE_ADDRESS to mark addresses on which we
108 listen to be devices ourselves.
110 Optional properties (per child device)
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113 These properties may not be supported by all drivers. However, if a driver
114 wants to support one of the below features, it should adapt these bindings.
117 device uses SMBus host notify protocol instead of interrupt line.
120 interrupts used by the device.
123 "irq", "wakeup" and "smbus_alert" names are recognized by I2C core,
124 other names are left to individual drivers.
127 Names of map programmable addresses.
128 It can contain any map needing another address than default one.
131 device can be used as a wakeup source.
133 Binding may contain optional "interrupts" property, describing interrupts
134 used by the device. I2C core will assign "irq" interrupt (or the very first
135 interrupt if not using interrupt names) as primary interrupt for the slave.
137 Alternatively, devices supporting SMBus Host Notify, and connected to
138 adapters that support this feature, may use "host-notify" property. I2C
139 core will create a virtual interrupt for Host Notify and assign it as
140 primary interrupt for the slave.
142 Also, if device is marked as a wakeup source, I2C core will set up "wakeup"
143 interrupt for the device. If "wakeup" interrupt name is not present in the
144 binding, then primary interrupt will be used as wakeup interrupt.