docs: dt: convert usage-model.txt to ReST
- Add a SPDX header; - Adjust document title; - Use footnoote markups; - Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks; - Mark literal blocks as such; - Add it to devicetree/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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@ -7,4 +7,5 @@ Open Firmware and Device Tree
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:maxdepth: 1
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usage-model
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writing-schema
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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ architecture.
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It is recommended to read the following documents before moving ahead.
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[1] Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt
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[1] Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.rst
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[2] http://www.devicetree.org/Device_Tree_Usage
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OF Selftest has been designed to test the interface (include/linux/of.h)
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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=========================
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Linux and the Device Tree
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-------------------------
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=========================
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The Linux usage model for device tree data
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Author: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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:Author: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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This article describes how Linux uses the device tree. An overview of
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the device tree data format can be found on the device tree usage page
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at devicetree.org[1].
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at devicetree.org\ [1]_.
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[1] http://devicetree.org/Device_Tree_Usage
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.. [1] http://devicetree.org/Device_Tree_Usage
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The "Open Firmware Device Tree", or simply Device Tree (DT), is a data
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structure and language for describing hardware. More specifically, it
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@ -57,7 +61,7 @@ Tree (FDT) was created which could be passed to the kernel as a binary
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blob without requiring a real Open Firmware implementation. U-Boot,
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kexec, and other bootloaders were modified to support both passing a
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Device Tree Binary (dtb) and to modify a dtb at boot time. DT was
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also added to the PowerPC boot wrapper (arch/powerpc/boot/*) so that
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also added to the PowerPC boot wrapper (``arch/powerpc/boot/*``) so that
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a dtb could be wrapped up with the kernel image to support booting
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existing non-DT aware firmware.
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@ -68,7 +72,7 @@ out of mainline (nios) have some level of DT support.
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2. Data Model
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-------------
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If you haven't already read the Device Tree Usage[1] page,
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If you haven't already read the Device Tree Usage\ [1]_ page,
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then go read it now. It's okay, I'll wait....
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2.1 High Level View
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@ -88,6 +92,7 @@ duplication and make it easier to support a wide range of hardware
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with a single kernel image.
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Linux uses DT data for three major purposes:
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1) platform identification,
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2) runtime configuration, and
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3) device population.
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@ -117,7 +122,7 @@ The 'compatible' property contains a sorted list of strings starting
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with the exact name of the machine, followed by an optional list of
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boards it is compatible with sorted from most compatible to least. For
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example, the root compatible properties for the TI BeagleBoard and its
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successor, the BeagleBoard xM board might look like, respectively:
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successor, the BeagleBoard xM board might look like, respectively::
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compatible = "ti,omap3-beagleboard", "ti,omap3450", "ti,omap3";
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compatible = "ti,omap3-beagleboard-xm", "ti,omap3450", "ti,omap3";
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@ -183,7 +188,7 @@ configuration data like the kernel parameters string and the location
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of an initrd image.
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Most of this data is contained in the /chosen node, and when booting
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Linux it will look something like this:
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Linux it will look something like this::
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chosen {
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bootargs = "console=ttyS0,115200 loglevel=8";
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tree and children of simple memory mapped bus nodes.
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About now is a good time to lay out an example. Here is part of the
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device tree for the NVIDIA Tegra board.
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device tree for the NVIDIA Tegra board::
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/{
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/{
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compatible = "nvidia,harmony", "nvidia,tegra20";
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#address-cells = <1>;
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#size-cells = <1>;
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i2s-controller = <&i2s1>;
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i2s-codec = <&wm8903>;
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};
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};
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};
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At .init_machine() time, Tegra board support code will need to look at
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this DT and decide which nodes to create platform_devices for.
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@ -379,13 +384,13 @@ device tree support code reflects that and makes the above example
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simpler. The second argument to of_platform_populate() is an
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of_device_id table, and any node that matches an entry in that table
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will also get its child nodes registered. In the Tegra case, the code
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can look something like this:
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can look something like this::
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static void __init harmony_init_machine(void)
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{
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static void __init harmony_init_machine(void)
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{
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/* ... */
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of_platform_populate(NULL, of_default_bus_match_table, NULL, NULL);
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}
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}
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"simple-bus" is defined in the Devicetree Specification as a property
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meaning a simple memory mapped bus, so the of_platform_populate() code
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/*
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* Device Tree compatible string
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* See: Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt Chapter 2.2 for details
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* See: Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.rst Chapter 2.2 for details
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*/
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const char *of_compatible;
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