1 Booting the Linux/ppc kernel without Open Firmware
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4 (c) 2005 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>,
6 (c) 2005 Becky Bruce <becky.bruce at freescale.com>,
7 Freescale Semiconductor, FSL SOC and 32-bit additions
8 (c) 2006 MontaVista Software, Inc.
9 Flash chip node definition
15 1) Entry point for arch/arm
16 2) Entry point for arch/powerpc
17 3) Entry point for arch/x86
18 4) Entry point for arch/mips/bmips
19 5) Entry point for arch/sh
21 II - The DT block format
23 2) Device tree generalities
24 3) Device tree "structure" block
25 4) Device tree "strings" block
27 III - Required content of the device tree
28 1) Note about cells and address representation
29 2) Note about "compatible" properties
30 3) Note about "name" properties
31 4) Note about node and property names and character set
32 5) Required nodes and properties
36 d) the /memory node(s)
38 f) the /soc<SOCname> node
40 IV - "dtc", the device tree compiler
42 V - Recommendations for a bootloader
44 VI - System-on-a-chip devices and nodes
45 1) Defining child nodes of an SOC
46 2) Representing devices without a current OF specification
48 VII - Specifying interrupt information for devices
49 1) interrupts property
50 2) interrupt-parent property
51 3) OpenPIC Interrupt Controllers
52 4) ISA Interrupt Controllers
54 VIII - Specifying device power management information (sleep property)
56 IX - Specifying dma bus information
58 Appendix A - Sample SOC node for MPC8540
64 May 18, 2005: Rev 0.1 - Initial draft, no chapter III yet.
66 May 19, 2005: Rev 0.2 - Add chapter III and bits & pieces here or
67 clarifies the fact that a lot of things are
68 optional, the kernel only requires a very
69 small device tree, though it is encouraged
70 to provide an as complete one as possible.
72 May 24, 2005: Rev 0.3 - Precise that DT block has to be in RAM
74 - Define version 3 and new format version 16
75 for the DT block (version 16 needs kernel
76 patches, will be fwd separately).
77 String block now has a size, and full path
78 is replaced by unit name for more
80 linux,phandle is made optional, only nodes
81 that are referenced by other nodes need it.
82 "name" property is now automatically
83 deduced from the unit name
85 June 1, 2005: Rev 0.4 - Correct confusion between OF_DT_END and
86 OF_DT_END_NODE in structure definition.
87 - Change version 16 format to always align
88 property data to 4 bytes. Since tokens are
89 already aligned, that means no specific
90 required alignment between property size
91 and property data. The old style variable
92 alignment would make it impossible to do
93 "simple" insertion of properties using
94 memmove (thanks Milton for
95 noticing). Updated kernel patch as well
96 - Correct a few more alignment constraints
97 - Add a chapter about the device-tree
98 compiler and the textural representation of
99 the tree that can be "compiled" by dtc.
101 November 21, 2005: Rev 0.5
102 - Additions/generalizations for 32-bit
103 - Changed to reflect the new arch/powerpc
109 - Add some definitions of interrupt tree (simple/complex)
110 - Add some definitions for PCI host bridges
111 - Add some common address format examples
112 - Add definitions for standard properties and "compatible"
113 names for cells that are not already defined by the existing
115 - Compare FSL SOC use of PCI to standard and make sure no new
116 node definition required.
117 - Add more information about node definitions for SOC devices
118 that currently have no standard, like the FSL CPM.
124 During the development of the Linux/ppc64 kernel, and more
125 specifically, the addition of new platform types outside of the old
126 IBM pSeries/iSeries pair, it was decided to enforce some strict rules
127 regarding the kernel entry and bootloader <-> kernel interfaces, in
128 order to avoid the degeneration that had become the ppc32 kernel entry
129 point and the way a new platform should be added to the kernel. The
130 legacy iSeries platform breaks those rules as it predates this scheme,
131 but no new board support will be accepted in the main tree that
132 doesn't follow them properly. In addition, since the advent of the
133 arch/powerpc merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64, new 32-bit
134 platforms and 32-bit platforms which move into arch/powerpc will be
135 required to use these rules as well.
137 The main requirement that will be defined in more detail below is
138 the presence of a device-tree whose format is defined after Open
139 Firmware specification. However, in order to make life easier
140 to embedded board vendors, the kernel doesn't require the device-tree
141 to represent every device in the system and only requires some nodes
142 and properties to be present. This will be described in detail in
143 section III, but, for example, the kernel does not require you to
144 create a node for every PCI device in the system. It is a requirement
145 to have a node for PCI host bridges in order to provide interrupt
146 routing information and memory/IO ranges, among others. It is also
147 recommended to define nodes for on chip devices and other buses that
148 don't specifically fit in an existing OF specification. This creates a
149 great flexibility in the way the kernel can then probe those and match
150 drivers to device, without having to hard code all sorts of tables. It
151 also makes it more flexible for board vendors to do minor hardware
152 upgrades without significantly impacting the kernel code or cluttering
153 it with special cases.
156 1) Entry point for arch/arm
157 ---------------------------
159 There is one single entry point to the kernel, at the start
160 of the kernel image. That entry point supports two calling
161 conventions. A summary of the interface is described here. A full
162 description of the boot requirements is documented in
163 Documentation/arm/Booting
165 a) ATAGS interface. Minimal information is passed from firmware
166 to the kernel with a tagged list of predefined parameters.
170 r1 : Machine type number
172 r2 : Physical address of tagged list in system RAM
174 b) Entry with a flattened device-tree block. Firmware loads the
175 physical address of the flattened device tree block (dtb) into r2,
176 r1 is not used, but it is considered good practice to use a valid
177 machine number as described in Documentation/arm/Booting.
181 r1 : Valid machine type number. When using a device tree,
182 a single machine type number will often be assigned to
183 represent a class or family of SoCs.
185 r2 : physical pointer to the device-tree block
186 (defined in chapter II) in RAM. Device tree can be located
187 anywhere in system RAM, but it should be aligned on a 64 bit
190 The kernel will differentiate between ATAGS and device tree booting by
191 reading the memory pointed to by r2 and looking for either the flattened
192 device tree block magic value (0xd00dfeed) or the ATAG_CORE value at
193 offset 0x4 from r2 (0x54410001).
195 2) Entry point for arch/powerpc
196 -------------------------------
198 There is one single entry point to the kernel, at the start
199 of the kernel image. That entry point supports two calling
202 a) Boot from Open Firmware. If your firmware is compatible
203 with Open Firmware (IEEE 1275) or provides an OF compatible
204 client interface API (support for "interpret" callback of
205 forth words isn't required), you can enter the kernel with:
207 r5 : OF callback pointer as defined by IEEE 1275
208 bindings to powerpc. Only the 32-bit client interface
209 is currently supported
211 r3, r4 : address & length of an initrd if any or 0
213 The MMU is either on or off; the kernel will run the
214 trampoline located in arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c to
215 extract the device-tree and other information from open
216 firmware and build a flattened device-tree as described
217 in b). prom_init() will then re-enter the kernel using
218 the second method. This trampoline code runs in the
219 context of the firmware, which is supposed to handle all
220 exceptions during that time.
222 b) Direct entry with a flattened device-tree block. This entry
223 point is called by a) after the OF trampoline and can also be
224 called directly by a bootloader that does not support the Open
225 Firmware client interface. It is also used by "kexec" to
226 implement "hot" booting of a new kernel from a previous
227 running one. This method is what I will describe in more
228 details in this document, as method a) is simply standard Open
229 Firmware, and thus should be implemented according to the
230 various standard documents defining it and its binding to the
231 PowerPC platform. The entry point definition then becomes:
233 r3 : physical pointer to the device-tree block
234 (defined in chapter II) in RAM
236 r4 : physical pointer to the kernel itself. This is
237 used by the assembly code to properly disable the MMU
238 in case you are entering the kernel with MMU enabled
239 and a non-1:1 mapping.
241 r5 : NULL (as to differentiate with method a)
243 Note about SMP entry: Either your firmware puts your other
244 CPUs in some sleep loop or spin loop in ROM where you can get
245 them out via a soft reset or some other means, in which case
246 you don't need to care, or you'll have to enter the kernel
247 with all CPUs. The way to do that with method b) will be
248 described in a later revision of this document.
250 Board supports (platforms) are not exclusive config options. An
251 arbitrary set of board supports can be built in a single kernel
252 image. The kernel will "know" what set of functions to use for a
253 given platform based on the content of the device-tree. Thus, you
256 a) add your platform support as a _boolean_ option in
257 arch/powerpc/Kconfig, following the example of PPC_PSERIES,
258 PPC_PMAC and PPC_MAPLE. The later is probably a good
259 example of a board support to start from.
261 b) create your main platform file as
262 "arch/powerpc/platforms/myplatform/myboard_setup.c" and add it
263 to the Makefile under the condition of your CONFIG_
264 option. This file will define a structure of type "ppc_md"
265 containing the various callbacks that the generic code will
266 use to get to your platform specific code
268 A kernel image may support multiple platforms, but only if the
269 platforms feature the same core architecture. A single kernel build
270 cannot support both configurations with Book E and configurations
271 with classic Powerpc architectures.
273 3) Entry point for arch/x86
274 -------------------------------
276 There is one single 32bit entry point to the kernel at code32_start,
277 the decompressor (the real mode entry point goes to the same 32bit
278 entry point once it switched into protected mode). That entry point
279 supports one calling convention which is documented in
280 Documentation/x86/boot.txt
281 The physical pointer to the device-tree block (defined in chapter II)
282 is passed via setup_data which requires at least boot protocol 2.09.
283 The type filed is defined as
287 This device-tree is used as an extension to the "boot page". As such it
288 does not parse / consider data which is already covered by the boot
289 page. This includes memory size, reserved ranges, command line arguments
290 or initrd address. It simply holds information which can not be retrieved
291 otherwise like interrupt routing or a list of devices behind an I2C bus.
293 4) Entry point for arch/mips/bmips
294 ----------------------------------
296 Some bootloaders only support a single entry point, at the start of the
297 kernel image. Other bootloaders will jump to the ELF start address.
298 Both schemes are supported; CONFIG_BOOT_RAW=y and CONFIG_NO_EXCEPT_FILL=y,
299 so the first instruction immediately jumps to kernel_entry().
301 Similar to the arch/arm case (b), a DT-aware bootloader is expected to
302 set up the following registers:
308 a2 : Physical pointer to the device tree block (defined in chapter
309 II) in RAM. The device tree can be located anywhere in the first
310 512MB of the physical address space (0x00000000 - 0x1fffffff),
311 aligned on a 64 bit boundary.
313 Legacy bootloaders do not use this convention, and they do not pass in a
314 DT block. In this case, Linux will look for a builtin DTB, selected via
317 This convention is defined for 32-bit systems only, as there are not
318 currently any 64-bit BMIPS implementations.
320 5) Entry point for arch/sh
321 --------------------------
323 Device-tree-compatible SH bootloaders are expected to provide the physical
324 address of the device tree blob in r4. Since legacy bootloaders did not
325 guarantee any particular initial register state, kernels built to
326 inter-operate with old bootloaders must either use a builtin DTB or
327 select a legacy board option (something other than CONFIG_SH_DEVICE_TREE)
328 that does not use device tree. Support for the latter is being phased out
329 in favor of device tree.
332 II - The DT block format
333 ========================
336 This chapter defines the actual format of the flattened device-tree
337 passed to the kernel. The actual content of it and kernel requirements
338 are described later. You can find example of code manipulating that
339 format in various places, including arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
340 which will generate a flattened device-tree from the Open Firmware
341 representation, or the fs2dt utility which is part of the kexec tools
342 which will generate one from a filesystem representation. It is
343 expected that a bootloader like uboot provides a bit more support,
344 that will be discussed later as well.
346 Note: The block has to be in main memory. It has to be accessible in
347 both real mode and virtual mode with no mapping other than main
348 memory. If you are writing a simple flash bootloader, it should copy
349 the block to RAM before passing it to the kernel.
355 The kernel is passed the physical address pointing to an area of memory
356 that is roughly described in include/linux/of_fdt.h by the structure
359 struct boot_param_header {
360 u32 magic; /* magic word OF_DT_HEADER */
361 u32 totalsize; /* total size of DT block */
362 u32 off_dt_struct; /* offset to structure */
363 u32 off_dt_strings; /* offset to strings */
364 u32 off_mem_rsvmap; /* offset to memory reserve map
366 u32 version; /* format version */
367 u32 last_comp_version; /* last compatible version */
369 /* version 2 fields below */
370 u32 boot_cpuid_phys; /* Which physical CPU id we're
372 /* version 3 fields below */
373 u32 size_dt_strings; /* size of the strings block */
375 /* version 17 fields below */
376 u32 size_dt_struct; /* size of the DT structure block */
379 Along with the constants:
381 /* Definitions used by the flattened device tree */
382 #define OF_DT_HEADER 0xd00dfeed /* 4: version,
384 #define OF_DT_BEGIN_NODE 0x1 /* Start node: full name
386 #define OF_DT_END_NODE 0x2 /* End node */
387 #define OF_DT_PROP 0x3 /* Property: name off,
389 #define OF_DT_END 0x9
391 All values in this header are in big endian format, the various
392 fields in this header are defined more precisely below. All
393 "offset" values are in bytes from the start of the header; that is
394 from the physical base address of the device tree block.
398 This is a magic value that "marks" the beginning of the
399 device-tree block header. It contains the value 0xd00dfeed and is
400 defined by the constant OF_DT_HEADER
404 This is the total size of the DT block including the header. The
405 "DT" block should enclose all data structures defined in this
406 chapter (who are pointed to by offsets in this header). That is,
407 the device-tree structure, strings, and the memory reserve map.
411 This is an offset from the beginning of the header to the start
412 of the "structure" part the device tree. (see 2) device tree)
416 This is an offset from the beginning of the header to the start
417 of the "strings" part of the device-tree
421 This is an offset from the beginning of the header to the start
422 of the reserved memory map. This map is a list of pairs of 64-
423 bit integers. Each pair is a physical address and a size. The
424 list is terminated by an entry of size 0. This map provides the
425 kernel with a list of physical memory areas that are "reserved"
426 and thus not to be used for memory allocations, especially during
427 early initialization. The kernel needs to allocate memory during
428 boot for things like un-flattening the device-tree, allocating an
429 MMU hash table, etc... Those allocations must be done in such a
430 way to avoid overriding critical things like, on Open Firmware
431 capable machines, the RTAS instance, or on some pSeries, the TCE
432 tables used for the iommu. Typically, the reserve map should
433 contain _at least_ this DT block itself (header,total_size). If
434 you are passing an initrd to the kernel, you should reserve it as
435 well. You do not need to reserve the kernel image itself. The map
436 should be 64-bit aligned.
440 This is the version of this structure. Version 1 stops
441 here. Version 2 adds an additional field boot_cpuid_phys.
442 Version 3 adds the size of the strings block, allowing the kernel
443 to reallocate it easily at boot and free up the unused flattened
444 structure after expansion. Version 16 introduces a new more
445 "compact" format for the tree itself that is however not backward
446 compatible. Version 17 adds an additional field, size_dt_struct,
447 allowing it to be reallocated or moved more easily (this is
448 particularly useful for bootloaders which need to make
449 adjustments to a device tree based on probed information). You
450 should always generate a structure of the highest version defined
451 at the time of your implementation. Currently that is version 17,
452 unless you explicitly aim at being backward compatible.
456 Last compatible version. This indicates down to what version of
457 the DT block you are backward compatible. For example, version 2
458 is backward compatible with version 1 (that is, a kernel build
459 for version 1 will be able to boot with a version 2 format). You
460 should put a 1 in this field if you generate a device tree of
461 version 1 to 3, or 16 if you generate a tree of version 16 or 17
462 using the new unit name format.
466 This field only exist on version 2 headers. It indicate which
467 physical CPU ID is calling the kernel entry point. This is used,
468 among others, by kexec. If you are on an SMP system, this value
469 should match the content of the "reg" property of the CPU node in
470 the device-tree corresponding to the CPU calling the kernel entry
471 point (see further chapters for more information on the required
472 device-tree contents)
476 This field only exists on version 3 and later headers. It
477 gives the size of the "strings" section of the device tree (which
478 starts at the offset given by off_dt_strings).
482 This field only exists on version 17 and later headers. It gives
483 the size of the "structure" section of the device tree (which
484 starts at the offset given by off_dt_struct).
486 So the typical layout of a DT block (though the various parts don't
487 need to be in that order) looks like this (addresses go from top to
491 ------------------------------
492 base -> | struct boot_param_header |
493 ------------------------------
494 | (alignment gap) (*) |
495 ------------------------------
496 | memory reserve map |
497 ------------------------------
499 ------------------------------
501 | device-tree structure |
503 ------------------------------
505 ------------------------------
507 | device-tree strings |
509 -----> ------------------------------
512 --- (base + totalsize)
514 (*) The alignment gaps are not necessarily present; their presence
515 and size are dependent on the various alignment requirements of
516 the individual data blocks.
519 2) Device tree generalities
520 ---------------------------
522 This device-tree itself is separated in two different blocks, a
523 structure block and a strings block. Both need to be aligned to a 4
526 First, let's quickly describe the device-tree concept before detailing
527 the storage format. This chapter does _not_ describe the detail of the
528 required types of nodes & properties for the kernel, this is done
529 later in chapter III.
531 The device-tree layout is strongly inherited from the definition of
532 the Open Firmware IEEE 1275 device-tree. It's basically a tree of
533 nodes, each node having two or more named properties. A property can
536 It is a tree, so each node has one and only one parent except for the
537 root node who has no parent.
539 A node has 2 names. The actual node name is generally contained in a
540 property of type "name" in the node property list whose value is a
541 zero terminated string and is mandatory for version 1 to 3 of the
542 format definition (as it is in Open Firmware). Version 16 makes it
543 optional as it can generate it from the unit name defined below.
545 There is also a "unit name" that is used to differentiate nodes with
546 the same name at the same level, it is usually made of the node
547 names, the "@" sign, and a "unit address", which definition is
548 specific to the bus type the node sits on.
550 The unit name doesn't exist as a property per-se but is included in
551 the device-tree structure. It is typically used to represent "path" in
552 the device-tree. More details about the actual format of these will be
555 The kernel generic code does not make any formal use of the
556 unit address (though some board support code may do) so the only real
557 requirement here for the unit address is to ensure uniqueness of
558 the node unit name at a given level of the tree. Nodes with no notion
559 of address and no possible sibling of the same name (like /memory or
560 /cpus) may omit the unit address in the context of this specification,
561 or use the "@0" default unit address. The unit name is used to define
562 a node "full path", which is the concatenation of all parent node
563 unit names separated with "/".
565 The root node doesn't have a defined name, and isn't required to have
566 a name property either if you are using version 3 or earlier of the
567 format. It also has no unit address (no @ symbol followed by a unit
568 address). The root node unit name is thus an empty string. The full
569 path to the root node is "/".
571 Every node which actually represents an actual device (that is, a node
572 which isn't only a virtual "container" for more nodes, like "/cpus"
573 is) is also required to have a "compatible" property indicating the
574 specific hardware and an optional list of devices it is fully
575 backwards compatible with.
577 Finally, every node that can be referenced from a property in another
578 node is required to have either a "phandle" or a "linux,phandle"
579 property. Real Open Firmware implementations provide a unique
580 "phandle" value for every node that the "prom_init()" trampoline code
581 turns into "linux,phandle" properties. However, this is made optional
582 if the flattened device tree is used directly. An example of a node
583 referencing another node via "phandle" is when laying out the
584 interrupt tree which will be described in a further version of this
587 The "phandle" property is a 32-bit value that uniquely
588 identifies a node. You are free to use whatever values or system of
589 values, internal pointers, or whatever to generate these, the only
590 requirement is that every node for which you provide that property has
591 a unique value for it.
593 Here is an example of a simple device-tree. In this example, an "o"
594 designates a node followed by the node unit name. Properties are
595 presented with their name followed by their content. "content"
596 represents an ASCII string (zero terminated) value, while <content>
597 represents a 32-bit value, specified in decimal or hexadecimal (the
598 latter prefixed 0x). The various nodes in this example will be
599 discussed in a later chapter. At this point, it is only meant to give
600 you a idea of what a device-tree looks like. I have purposefully kept
601 the "name" and "linux,phandle" properties which aren't necessary in
602 order to give you a better idea of what the tree looks like in
606 |- name = "device-tree"
607 |- model = "MyBoardName"
608 |- compatible = "MyBoardFamilyName"
609 |- #address-cells = <2>
611 |- linux,phandle = <0>
615 | | - linux,phandle = <1>
616 | | - #address-cells = <1>
617 | | - #size-cells = <0>
620 | |- name = "PowerPC,970"
621 | |- device_type = "cpu"
623 | |- clock-frequency = <0x5f5e1000>
625 | |- linux,phandle = <2>
629 | |- device_type = "memory"
630 | |- reg = <0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x20000000>
631 | |- linux,phandle = <3>
635 |- bootargs = "root=/dev/sda2"
636 |- linux,phandle = <4>
638 This tree is almost a minimal tree. It pretty much contains the
639 minimal set of required nodes and properties to boot a linux kernel;
640 that is, some basic model information at the root, the CPUs, and the
641 physical memory layout. It also includes misc information passed
642 through /chosen, like in this example, the platform type (mandatory)
643 and the kernel command line arguments (optional).
645 The /cpus/PowerPC,970@0/64-bit property is an example of a
646 property without a value. All other properties have a value. The
647 significance of the #address-cells and #size-cells properties will be
648 explained in chapter IV which defines precisely the required nodes and
649 properties and their content.
652 3) Device tree "structure" block
654 The structure of the device tree is a linearized tree structure. The
655 "OF_DT_BEGIN_NODE" token starts a new node, and the "OF_DT_END_NODE"
656 ends that node definition. Child nodes are simply defined before
657 "OF_DT_END_NODE" (that is nodes within the node). A 'token' is a 32
658 bit value. The tree has to be "finished" with a OF_DT_END token
660 Here's the basic structure of a single node:
662 * token OF_DT_BEGIN_NODE (that is 0x00000001)
663 * for version 1 to 3, this is the node full path as a zero
664 terminated string, starting with "/". For version 16 and later,
665 this is the node unit name only (or an empty string for the
667 * [align gap to next 4 bytes boundary]
669 * token OF_DT_PROP (that is 0x00000003)
670 * 32-bit value of property value size in bytes (or 0 if no
672 * 32-bit value of offset in string block of property name
673 * property value data if any
674 * [align gap to next 4 bytes boundary]
675 * [child nodes if any]
676 * token OF_DT_END_NODE (that is 0x00000002)
678 So the node content can be summarized as a start token, a full path,
679 a list of properties, a list of child nodes, and an end token. Every
680 child node is a full node structure itself as defined above.
682 NOTE: The above definition requires that all property definitions for
683 a particular node MUST precede any subnode definitions for that node.
684 Although the structure would not be ambiguous if properties and
685 subnodes were intermingled, the kernel parser requires that the
686 properties come first (up until at least 2.6.22). Any tools
687 manipulating a flattened tree must take care to preserve this
690 4) Device tree "strings" block
692 In order to save space, property names, which are generally redundant,
693 are stored separately in the "strings" block. This block is simply the
694 whole bunch of zero terminated strings for all property names
695 concatenated together. The device-tree property definitions in the
696 structure block will contain offset values from the beginning of the
700 III - Required content of the device tree
701 =========================================
703 WARNING: All "linux,*" properties defined in this document apply only
704 to a flattened device-tree. If your platform uses a real
705 implementation of Open Firmware or an implementation compatible with
706 the Open Firmware client interface, those properties will be created
707 by the trampoline code in the kernel's prom_init() file. For example,
708 that's where you'll have to add code to detect your board model and
709 set the platform number. However, when using the flattened device-tree
710 entry point, there is no prom_init() pass, and thus you have to
711 provide those properties yourself.
714 1) Note about cells and address representation
715 ----------------------------------------------
717 The general rule is documented in the various Open Firmware
718 documentations. If you choose to describe a bus with the device-tree
719 and there exist an OF bus binding, then you should follow the
720 specification. However, the kernel does not require every single
721 device or bus to be described by the device tree.
723 In general, the format of an address for a device is defined by the
724 parent bus type, based on the #address-cells and #size-cells
725 properties. Note that the parent's parent definitions of #address-cells
726 and #size-cells are not inherited so every node with children must specify
727 them. The kernel requires the root node to have those properties defining
728 addresses format for devices directly mapped on the processor bus.
730 Those 2 properties define 'cells' for representing an address and a
731 size. A "cell" is a 32-bit number. For example, if both contain 2
732 like the example tree given above, then an address and a size are both
733 composed of 2 cells, and each is a 64-bit number (cells are
734 concatenated and expected to be in big endian format). Another example
735 is the way Apple firmware defines them, with 2 cells for an address
736 and one cell for a size. Most 32-bit implementations should define
737 #address-cells and #size-cells to 1, which represents a 32-bit value.
738 Some 32-bit processors allow for physical addresses greater than 32
739 bits; these processors should define #address-cells as 2.
741 "reg" properties are always a tuple of the type "address size" where
742 the number of cells of address and size is specified by the bus
743 #address-cells and #size-cells. When a bus supports various address
744 spaces and other flags relative to a given address allocation (like
745 prefetchable, etc...) those flags are usually added to the top level
746 bits of the physical address. For example, a PCI physical address is
747 made of 3 cells, the bottom two containing the actual address itself
748 while the top cell contains address space indication, flags, and pci
749 bus & device numbers.
751 For buses that support dynamic allocation, it's the accepted practice
752 to then not provide the address in "reg" (keep it 0) though while
753 providing a flag indicating the address is dynamically allocated, and
754 then, to provide a separate "assigned-addresses" property that
755 contains the fully allocated addresses. See the PCI OF bindings for
758 In general, a simple bus with no address space bits and no dynamic
759 allocation is preferred if it reflects your hardware, as the existing
760 kernel address parsing functions will work out of the box. If you
761 define a bus type with a more complex address format, including things
762 like address space bits, you'll have to add a bus translator to the
763 prom_parse.c file of the recent kernels for your bus type.
765 The "reg" property only defines addresses and sizes (if #size-cells is
766 non-0) within a given bus. In order to translate addresses upward
767 (that is into parent bus addresses, and possibly into CPU physical
768 addresses), all buses must contain a "ranges" property. If the
769 "ranges" property is missing at a given level, it's assumed that
770 translation isn't possible, i.e., the registers are not visible on the
771 parent bus. The format of the "ranges" property for a bus is a list
774 bus address, parent bus address, size
776 "bus address" is in the format of the bus this bus node is defining,
777 that is, for a PCI bridge, it would be a PCI address. Thus, (bus
778 address, size) defines a range of addresses for child devices. "parent
779 bus address" is in the format of the parent bus of this bus. For
780 example, for a PCI host controller, that would be a CPU address. For a
781 PCI<->ISA bridge, that would be a PCI address. It defines the base
782 address in the parent bus where the beginning of that range is mapped.
784 For new 64-bit board support, I recommend either the 2/2 format or
785 Apple's 2/1 format which is slightly more compact since sizes usually
786 fit in a single 32-bit word. New 32-bit board support should use a
787 1/1 format, unless the processor supports physical addresses greater
788 than 32-bits, in which case a 2/1 format is recommended.
790 Alternatively, the "ranges" property may be empty, indicating that the
791 registers are visible on the parent bus using an identity mapping
792 translation. In other words, the parent bus address space is the same
793 as the child bus address space.
795 2) Note about "compatible" properties
796 -------------------------------------
798 These properties are optional, but recommended in devices and the root
799 node. The format of a "compatible" property is a list of concatenated
800 zero terminated strings. They allow a device to express its
801 compatibility with a family of similar devices, in some cases,
802 allowing a single driver to match against several devices regardless
803 of their actual names.
805 3) Note about "name" properties
806 -------------------------------
808 While earlier users of Open Firmware like OldWorld macintoshes tended
809 to use the actual device name for the "name" property, it's nowadays
810 considered a good practice to use a name that is closer to the device
811 class (often equal to device_type). For example, nowadays, Ethernet
812 controllers are named "ethernet", an additional "model" property
813 defining precisely the chip type/model, and "compatible" property
814 defining the family in case a single driver can driver more than one
815 of these chips. However, the kernel doesn't generally put any
816 restriction on the "name" property; it is simply considered good
817 practice to follow the standard and its evolutions as closely as
820 Note also that the new format version 16 makes the "name" property
821 optional. If it's absent for a node, then the node's unit name is then
822 used to reconstruct the name. That is, the part of the unit name
823 before the "@" sign is used (or the entire unit name if no "@" sign
826 4) Note about node and property names and character set
827 -------------------------------------------------------
829 While Open Firmware provides more flexible usage of 8859-1, this
830 specification enforces more strict rules. Nodes and properties should
831 be comprised only of ASCII characters 'a' to 'z', '0' to
832 '9', ',', '.', '_', '+', '#', '?', and '-'. Node names additionally
833 allow uppercase characters 'A' to 'Z' (property names should be
834 lowercase. The fact that vendors like Apple don't respect this rule is
835 irrelevant here). Additionally, node and property names should always
836 begin with a character in the range 'a' to 'z' (or 'A' to 'Z' for node
839 The maximum number of characters for both nodes and property names
840 is 31. In the case of node names, this is only the leftmost part of
841 a unit name (the pure "name" property), it doesn't include the unit
842 address which can extend beyond that limit.
845 5) Required nodes and properties
846 --------------------------------
847 These are all that are currently required. However, it is strongly
848 recommended that you expose PCI host bridges as documented in the
849 PCI binding to Open Firmware, and your interrupt tree as documented
850 in OF interrupt tree specification.
854 The root node requires some properties to be present:
856 - model : this is your board name/model
857 - #address-cells : address representation for "root" devices
858 - #size-cells: the size representation for "root" devices
859 - compatible : the board "family" generally finds its way here,
860 for example, if you have 2 board models with a similar layout,
861 that typically get driven by the same platform code in the
862 kernel, you would specify the exact board model in the
863 compatible property followed by an entry that represents the SoC
866 The root node is also generally where you add additional properties
867 specific to your board like the serial number if any, that sort of
868 thing. It is recommended that if you add any "custom" property whose
869 name may clash with standard defined ones, you prefix them with your
870 vendor name and a comma.
872 Additional properties for the root node:
874 - serial-number : a string representing the device's serial number
878 This node is the parent of all individual CPU nodes. It doesn't
879 have any specific requirements, though it's generally good practice
882 #address-cells = <00000001>
883 #size-cells = <00000000>
885 This defines that the "address" for a CPU is a single cell, and has
886 no meaningful size. This is not necessary but the kernel will assume
887 that format when reading the "reg" properties of a CPU node, see
892 So under /cpus, you are supposed to create a node for every CPU on
893 the machine. There is no specific restriction on the name of the
894 CPU, though it's common to call it <architecture>,<core>. For
895 example, Apple uses PowerPC,G5 while IBM uses PowerPC,970FX.
896 However, the Generic Names convention suggests that it would be
897 better to simply use 'cpu' for each cpu node and use the compatible
898 property to identify the specific cpu core.
902 - device_type : has to be "cpu"
903 - reg : This is the physical CPU number, it's a single 32-bit cell
904 and is also used as-is as the unit number for constructing the
905 unit name in the full path. For example, with 2 CPUs, you would
907 /cpus/PowerPC,970FX@0
908 /cpus/PowerPC,970FX@1
909 (unit addresses do not require leading zeroes)
910 - d-cache-block-size : one cell, L1 data cache block size in bytes (*)
911 - i-cache-block-size : one cell, L1 instruction cache block size in
913 - d-cache-size : one cell, size of L1 data cache in bytes
914 - i-cache-size : one cell, size of L1 instruction cache in bytes
916 (*) The cache "block" size is the size on which the cache management
917 instructions operate. Historically, this document used the cache
918 "line" size here which is incorrect. The kernel will prefer the cache
919 block size and will fallback to cache line size for backward
922 Recommended properties:
924 - timebase-frequency : a cell indicating the frequency of the
925 timebase in Hz. This is not directly used by the generic code,
926 but you are welcome to copy/paste the pSeries code for setting
927 the kernel timebase/decrementer calibration based on this
929 - clock-frequency : a cell indicating the CPU core clock frequency
930 in Hz. A new property will be defined for 64-bit values, but if
931 your frequency is < 4Ghz, one cell is enough. Here as well as
932 for the above, the common code doesn't use that property, but
933 you are welcome to re-use the pSeries or Maple one. A future
934 kernel version might provide a common function for this.
935 - d-cache-line-size : one cell, L1 data cache line size in bytes
936 if different from the block size
937 - i-cache-line-size : one cell, L1 instruction cache line size in
938 bytes if different from the block size
940 You are welcome to add any property you find relevant to your board,
941 like some information about the mechanism used to soft-reset the
942 CPUs. For example, Apple puts the GPIO number for CPU soft reset
943 lines in there as a "soft-reset" property since they start secondary
944 CPUs by soft-resetting them.
947 d) the /memory node(s)
949 To define the physical memory layout of your board, you should
950 create one or more memory node(s). You can either create a single
951 node with all memory ranges in its reg property, or you can create
952 several nodes, as you wish. The unit address (@ part) used for the
953 full path is the address of the first range of memory defined by a
954 given node. If you use a single memory node, this will typically be
959 - device_type : has to be "memory"
960 - reg : This property contains all the physical memory ranges of
961 your board. It's a list of addresses/sizes concatenated
962 together, with the number of cells of each defined by the
963 #address-cells and #size-cells of the root node. For example,
964 with both of these properties being 2 like in the example given
965 earlier, a 970 based machine with 6Gb of RAM could typically
966 have a "reg" property here that looks like:
968 00000000 00000000 00000000 80000000
969 00000001 00000000 00000001 00000000
971 That is a range starting at 0 of 0x80000000 bytes and a range
972 starting at 0x100000000 and of 0x100000000 bytes. You can see
973 that there is no memory covering the IO hole between 2Gb and
974 4Gb. Some vendors prefer splitting those ranges into smaller
975 segments, but the kernel doesn't care.
977 Additional properties:
979 - hotpluggable : The presence of this property provides an explicit
980 hint to the operating system that this memory may potentially be
981 removed later. The kernel can take this into consideration when
982 doing nonmovable allocations and when laying out memory zones.
986 This node is a bit "special". Normally, that's where Open Firmware
987 puts some variable environment information, like the arguments, or
988 the default input/output devices.
990 This specification makes a few of these mandatory, but also defines
991 some linux-specific properties that would be normally constructed by
992 the prom_init() trampoline when booting with an OF client interface,
993 but that you have to provide yourself when using the flattened format.
995 Recommended properties:
997 - bootargs : This zero-terminated string is passed as the kernel
999 - linux,stdout-path : This is the full path to your standard
1000 console device if any. Typically, if you have serial devices on
1001 your board, you may want to put the full path to the one set as
1002 the default console in the firmware here, for the kernel to pick
1003 it up as its own default console.
1005 Note that u-boot creates and fills in the chosen node for platforms
1008 (Note: a practice that is now obsolete was to include a property
1009 under /chosen called interrupt-controller which had a phandle value
1010 that pointed to the main interrupt controller)
1012 f) the /soc<SOCname> node
1014 This node is used to represent a system-on-a-chip (SoC) and must be
1015 present if the processor is a SoC. The top-level soc node contains
1016 information that is global to all devices on the SoC. The node name
1017 should contain a unit address for the SoC, which is the base address
1018 of the memory-mapped register set for the SoC. The name of an SoC
1019 node should start with "soc", and the remainder of the name should
1020 represent the part number for the soc. For example, the MPC8540's
1021 soc node would be called "soc8540".
1023 Required properties:
1025 - ranges : Should be defined as specified in 1) to describe the
1026 translation of SoC addresses for memory mapped SoC registers.
1027 - bus-frequency: Contains the bus frequency for the SoC node.
1028 Typically, the value of this field is filled in by the boot
1030 - compatible : Exact model of the SoC
1033 Recommended properties:
1035 - reg : This property defines the address and size of the
1036 memory-mapped registers that are used for the SOC node itself.
1037 It does not include the child device registers - these will be
1038 defined inside each child node. The address specified in the
1039 "reg" property should match the unit address of the SOC node.
1040 - #address-cells : Address representation for "soc" devices. The
1041 format of this field may vary depending on whether or not the
1042 device registers are memory mapped. For memory mapped
1043 registers, this field represents the number of cells needed to
1044 represent the address of the registers. For SOCs that do not
1045 use MMIO, a special address format should be defined that
1046 contains enough cells to represent the required information.
1047 See 1) above for more details on defining #address-cells.
1048 - #size-cells : Size representation for "soc" devices
1049 - #interrupt-cells : Defines the width of cells used to represent
1050 interrupts. Typically this value is <2>, which includes a
1051 32-bit number that represents the interrupt number, and a
1052 32-bit number that represents the interrupt sense and level.
1053 This field is only needed if the SOC contains an interrupt
1056 The SOC node may contain child nodes for each SOC device that the
1057 platform uses. Nodes should not be created for devices which exist
1058 on the SOC but are not used by a particular platform. See chapter VI
1059 for more information on how to specify devices that are part of a SOC.
1061 Example SOC node for the MPC8540:
1064 #address-cells = <1>;
1066 #interrupt-cells = <2>;
1067 device_type = "soc";
1068 ranges = <0x00000000 0xe0000000 0x00100000>
1069 reg = <0xe0000000 0x00003000>;
1070 bus-frequency = <0>;
1075 IV - "dtc", the device tree compiler
1076 ====================================
1079 dtc source code can be found at
1080 <http://git.jdl.com/gitweb/?p=dtc.git>
1082 WARNING: This version is still in early development stage; the
1083 resulting device-tree "blobs" have not yet been validated with the
1084 kernel. The current generated block lacks a useful reserve map (it will
1085 be fixed to generate an empty one, it's up to the bootloader to fill
1086 it up) among others. The error handling needs work, bugs are lurking,
1089 dtc basically takes a device-tree in a given format and outputs a
1090 device-tree in another format. The currently supported formats are:
1095 - "dtb": "blob" format, that is a flattened device-tree block
1097 header all in a binary blob.
1098 - "dts": "source" format. This is a text file containing a
1099 "source" for a device-tree. The format is defined later in this
1101 - "fs" format. This is a representation equivalent to the
1102 output of /proc/device-tree, that is nodes are directories and
1103 properties are files
1108 - "dtb": "blob" format
1109 - "dts": "source" format
1110 - "asm": assembly language file. This is a file that can be
1111 sourced by gas to generate a device-tree "blob". That file can
1112 then simply be added to your Makefile. Additionally, the
1113 assembly file exports some symbols that can be used.
1116 The syntax of the dtc tool is
1118 dtc [-I <input-format>] [-O <output-format>]
1119 [-o output-filename] [-V output_version] input_filename
1122 The "output_version" defines what version of the "blob" format will be
1123 generated. Supported versions are 1,2,3 and 16. The default is
1124 currently version 3 but that may change in the future to version 16.
1126 Additionally, dtc performs various sanity checks on the tree, like the
1127 uniqueness of linux, phandle properties, validity of strings, etc...
1129 The format of the .dts "source" file is "C" like, supports C and C++
1135 The above is the "device-tree" definition. It's the only statement
1136 supported currently at the toplevel.
1139 property1 = "string_value"; /* define a property containing a 0
1143 property2 = <0x1234abcd>; /* define a property containing a
1144 * numerical 32-bit value (hexadecimal)
1147 property3 = <0x12345678 0x12345678 0xdeadbeef>;
1148 /* define a property containing 3
1149 * numerical 32-bit values (cells) in
1152 property4 = [0x0a 0x0b 0x0c 0x0d 0xde 0xea 0xad 0xbe 0xef];
1153 /* define a property whose content is
1154 * an arbitrary array of bytes
1157 childnode@address { /* define a child node named "childnode"
1158 * whose unit name is "childnode at
1162 childprop = "hello\n"; /* define a property "childprop" of
1163 * childnode (in this case, a string)
1168 Nodes can contain other nodes etc... thus defining the hierarchical
1169 structure of the tree.
1171 Strings support common escape sequences from C: "\n", "\t", "\r",
1172 "\(octal value)", "\x(hex value)".
1174 It is also suggested that you pipe your source file through cpp (gcc
1175 preprocessor) so you can use #include's, #define for constants, etc...
1177 Finally, various options are planned but not yet implemented, like
1178 automatic generation of phandles, labels (exported to the asm file so
1179 you can point to a property content and change it easily from whatever
1180 you link the device-tree with), label or path instead of numeric value
1181 in some cells to "point" to a node (replaced by a phandle at compile
1182 time), export of reserve map address to the asm file, ability to
1183 specify reserve map content at compile time, etc...
1185 We may provide a .h include file with common definitions of that
1186 proves useful for some properties (like building PCI properties or
1187 interrupt maps) though it may be better to add a notion of struct
1188 definitions to the compiler...
1191 V - Recommendations for a bootloader
1192 ====================================
1195 Here are some various ideas/recommendations that have been proposed
1196 while all this has been defined and implemented.
1198 - The bootloader may want to be able to use the device-tree itself
1199 and may want to manipulate it (to add/edit some properties,
1200 like physical memory size or kernel arguments). At this point, 2
1201 choices can be made. Either the bootloader works directly on the
1202 flattened format, or the bootloader has its own internal tree
1203 representation with pointers (similar to the kernel one) and
1204 re-flattens the tree when booting the kernel. The former is a bit
1205 more difficult to edit/modify, the later requires probably a bit
1206 more code to handle the tree structure. Note that the structure
1207 format has been designed so it's relatively easy to "insert"
1208 properties or nodes or delete them by just memmoving things
1209 around. It contains no internal offsets or pointers for this
1212 - An example of code for iterating nodes & retrieving properties
1213 directly from the flattened tree format can be found in the kernel
1214 file drivers/of/fdt.c. Look at the of_scan_flat_dt() function,
1215 its usage in early_init_devtree(), and the corresponding various
1216 early_init_dt_scan_*() callbacks. That code can be re-used in a
1217 GPL bootloader, and as the author of that code, I would be happy
1218 to discuss possible free licensing to any vendor who wishes to
1219 integrate all or part of this code into a non-GPL bootloader.
1220 (reference needed; who is 'I' here? ---gcl Jan 31, 2011)
1224 VI - System-on-a-chip devices and nodes
1225 =======================================
1227 Many companies are now starting to develop system-on-a-chip
1228 processors, where the processor core (CPU) and many peripheral devices
1229 exist on a single piece of silicon. For these SOCs, an SOC node
1230 should be used that defines child nodes for the devices that make
1231 up the SOC. While platforms are not required to use this model in
1232 order to boot the kernel, it is highly encouraged that all SOC
1233 implementations define as complete a flat-device-tree as possible to
1234 describe the devices on the SOC. This will allow for the
1235 genericization of much of the kernel code.
1238 1) Defining child nodes of an SOC
1239 ---------------------------------
1241 Each device that is part of an SOC may have its own node entry inside
1242 the SOC node. For each device that is included in the SOC, the unit
1243 address property represents the address offset for this device's
1244 memory-mapped registers in the parent's address space. The parent's
1245 address space is defined by the "ranges" property in the top-level soc
1246 node. The "reg" property for each node that exists directly under the
1247 SOC node should contain the address mapping from the child address space
1248 to the parent SOC address space and the size of the device's
1249 memory-mapped register file.
1251 For many devices that may exist inside an SOC, there are predefined
1252 specifications for the format of the device tree node. All SOC child
1253 nodes should follow these specifications, except where noted in this
1256 See appendix A for an example partial SOC node definition for the
1260 2) Representing devices without a current OF specification
1261 ----------------------------------------------------------
1263 Currently, there are many devices on SoCs that do not have a standard
1264 representation defined as part of the Open Firmware specifications,
1265 mainly because the boards that contain these SoCs are not currently
1266 booted using Open Firmware. Binding documentation for new devices
1267 should be added to the Documentation/devicetree/bindings directory.
1268 That directory will expand as device tree support is added to more and
1272 VII - Specifying interrupt information for devices
1273 ===================================================
1275 The device tree represents the buses and devices of a hardware
1276 system in a form similar to the physical bus topology of the
1279 In addition, a logical 'interrupt tree' exists which represents the
1280 hierarchy and routing of interrupts in the hardware.
1282 The interrupt tree model is fully described in the
1283 document "Open Firmware Recommended Practice: Interrupt
1284 Mapping Version 0.9". The document is available at:
1285 <http://www.openfirmware.org/ofwg/practice/>
1287 1) interrupts property
1288 ----------------------
1290 Devices that generate interrupts to a single interrupt controller
1291 should use the conventional OF representation described in the
1292 OF interrupt mapping documentation.
1294 Each device which generates interrupts must have an 'interrupt'
1295 property. The interrupt property value is an arbitrary number of
1296 of 'interrupt specifier' values which describe the interrupt or
1297 interrupts for the device.
1299 The encoding of an interrupt specifier is determined by the
1300 interrupt domain in which the device is located in the
1301 interrupt tree. The root of an interrupt domain specifies in
1302 its #interrupt-cells property the number of 32-bit cells
1303 required to encode an interrupt specifier. See the OF interrupt
1304 mapping documentation for a detailed description of domains.
1306 For example, the binding for the OpenPIC interrupt controller
1307 specifies an #interrupt-cells value of 2 to encode the interrupt
1308 number and level/sense information. All interrupt children in an
1309 OpenPIC interrupt domain use 2 cells per interrupt in their interrupts
1312 The PCI bus binding specifies a #interrupt-cell value of 1 to encode
1313 which interrupt pin (INTA,INTB,INTC,INTD) is used.
1315 2) interrupt-parent property
1316 ----------------------------
1318 The interrupt-parent property is specified to define an explicit
1319 link between a device node and its interrupt parent in
1320 the interrupt tree. The value of interrupt-parent is the
1321 phandle of the parent node.
1323 If the interrupt-parent property is not defined for a node, its
1324 interrupt parent is assumed to be an ancestor in the node's
1325 _device tree_ hierarchy.
1327 3) OpenPIC Interrupt Controllers
1328 --------------------------------
1330 OpenPIC interrupt controllers require 2 cells to encode
1331 interrupt information. The first cell defines the interrupt
1332 number. The second cell defines the sense and level
1335 Sense and level information should be encoded as follows:
1337 0 = low to high edge sensitive type enabled
1338 1 = active low level sensitive type enabled
1339 2 = active high level sensitive type enabled
1340 3 = high to low edge sensitive type enabled
1342 4) ISA Interrupt Controllers
1343 ----------------------------
1345 ISA PIC interrupt controllers require 2 cells to encode
1346 interrupt information. The first cell defines the interrupt
1347 number. The second cell defines the sense and level
1350 ISA PIC interrupt controllers should adhere to the ISA PIC
1351 encodings listed below:
1353 0 = active low level sensitive type enabled
1354 1 = active high level sensitive type enabled
1355 2 = high to low edge sensitive type enabled
1356 3 = low to high edge sensitive type enabled
1358 VIII - Specifying Device Power Management Information (sleep property)
1359 ===================================================================
1361 Devices on SOCs often have mechanisms for placing devices into low-power
1362 states that are decoupled from the devices' own register blocks. Sometimes,
1363 this information is more complicated than a cell-index property can
1364 reasonably describe. Thus, each device controlled in such a manner
1365 may contain a "sleep" property which describes these connections.
1367 The sleep property consists of one or more sleep resources, each of
1368 which consists of a phandle to a sleep controller, followed by a
1369 controller-specific sleep specifier of zero or more cells.
1371 The semantics of what type of low power modes are possible are defined
1372 by the sleep controller. Some examples of the types of low power modes
1373 that may be supported are:
1375 - Dynamic: The device may be disabled or enabled at any time.
1376 - System Suspend: The device may request to be disabled or remain
1377 awake during system suspend, but will not be disabled until then.
1378 - Permanent: The device is disabled permanently (until the next hard
1381 Some devices may share a clock domain with each other, such that they should
1382 only be suspended when none of the devices are in use. Where reasonable,
1383 such nodes should be placed on a virtual bus, where the bus has the sleep
1384 property. If the clock domain is shared among devices that cannot be
1385 reasonably grouped in this manner, then create a virtual sleep controller
1386 (similar to an interrupt nexus, except that defining a standardized
1387 sleep-map should wait until its necessity is demonstrated).
1389 IX - Specifying dma bus information
1391 Some devices may have DMA memory range shifted relatively to the beginning of
1392 RAM, or even placed outside of kernel RAM. For example, the Keystone 2 SoC
1393 worked in LPAE mode with 4G memory has:
1394 - RAM range: [0x8 0000 0000, 0x8 FFFF FFFF]
1395 - DMA range: [ 0x8000 0000, 0xFFFF FFFF]
1396 and DMA range is aliased into first 2G of RAM in HW.
1398 In such cases, DMA addresses translation should be performed between CPU phys
1399 and DMA addresses. The "dma-ranges" property is intended to be used
1400 for describing the configuration of such system in DT.
1402 In addition, each DMA master device on the DMA bus may or may not support
1403 coherent DMA operations. The "dma-coherent" property is intended to be used
1404 for identifying devices supported coherent DMA operations in DT.
1408 - dma-ranges: <prop-encoded-array> encoded as arbitrary number of triplets of
1409 (child-bus-address, parent-bus-address, length). Each triplet specified
1410 describes a contiguous DMA address range.
1411 The dma-ranges property is used to describe the direct memory access (DMA)
1412 structure of a memory-mapped bus whose device tree parent can be accessed
1413 from DMA operations originating from the bus. It provides a means of
1414 defining a mapping or translation between the physical address space of
1415 the bus and the physical address space of the parent of the bus.
1416 (for more information see ePAPR specification)
1420 - dma-ranges: <empty> value. if present - It means that DMA addresses
1421 translation has to be enabled for this device.
1422 - dma-coherent: Present if dma operations are coherent
1426 compatible = "ti,keystone","simple-bus";
1427 ranges = <0x0 0x0 0x0 0xc0000000>;
1428 dma-ranges = <0x80000000 0x8 0x00000000 0x80000000>;
1433 compatible = "ti,keystone-dwc3";
1440 Appendix A - Sample SOC node for MPC8540
1441 ========================================
1444 #address-cells = <1>;
1446 compatible = "fsl,mpc8540-ccsr", "simple-bus";
1447 device_type = "soc";
1448 ranges = <0x00000000 0xe0000000 0x00100000>
1449 bus-frequency = <0>;
1450 interrupt-parent = <&pic>;
1453 #address-cells = <1>;
1455 device_type = "network";
1457 compatible = "gianfar", "simple-bus";
1458 reg = <0x24000 0x1000>;
1459 local-mac-address = [ 0x00 0xE0 0x0C 0x00 0x73 0x00 ];
1460 interrupts = <0x29 2 0x30 2 0x34 2>;
1461 phy-handle = <&phy0>;
1462 sleep = <&pmc 0x00000080>;
1466 reg = <0x24520 0x20>;
1467 compatible = "fsl,gianfar-mdio";
1469 phy0: ethernet-phy@0 {
1474 phy1: ethernet-phy@1 {
1479 phy3: ethernet-phy@3 {
1487 device_type = "network";
1489 compatible = "gianfar";
1490 reg = <0x25000 0x1000>;
1491 local-mac-address = [ 0x00 0xE0 0x0C 0x00 0x73 0x01 ];
1492 interrupts = <0x13 2 0x14 2 0x18 2>;
1493 phy-handle = <&phy1>;
1494 sleep = <&pmc 0x00000040>;
1498 device_type = "network";
1500 compatible = "gianfar";
1501 reg = <0x26000 0x1000>;
1502 local-mac-address = [ 0x00 0xE0 0x0C 0x00 0x73 0x02 ];
1503 interrupts = <0x41 2>;
1504 phy-handle = <&phy3>;
1505 sleep = <&pmc 0x00000020>;
1509 #address-cells = <1>;
1511 compatible = "fsl,mpc8540-duart", "simple-bus";
1512 sleep = <&pmc 0x00000002>;
1516 device_type = "serial";
1517 compatible = "ns16550";
1518 reg = <0x4500 0x100>;
1519 clock-frequency = <0>;
1520 interrupts = <0x42 2>;
1524 device_type = "serial";
1525 compatible = "ns16550";
1526 reg = <0x4600 0x100>;
1527 clock-frequency = <0>;
1528 interrupts = <0x42 2>;
1533 interrupt-controller;
1534 #address-cells = <0>;
1535 #interrupt-cells = <2>;
1536 reg = <0x40000 0x40000>;
1537 compatible = "chrp,open-pic";
1538 device_type = "open-pic";
1542 interrupts = <0x43 2>;
1543 reg = <0x3000 0x100>;
1544 compatible = "fsl-i2c";
1546 sleep = <&pmc 0x00000004>;
1550 compatible = "fsl,mpc8540-pmc", "fsl,mpc8548-pmc";
1551 reg = <0xe0070 0x20>;