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1 Booting the Linux/ppc kernel without Open Firmware
2 --------------------------------------------------
3
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4(c) 2005 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>,
5 IBM Corp.
6(c) 2005 Becky Bruce <becky.bruce at freescale.com>,
7 Freescale Semiconductor, FSL SOC and 32-bit additions
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8(c) 2006 MontaVista Software, Inc.
9 Flash chip node definition
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11Table of Contents
12=================
13
14 I - Introduction
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15 1) Entry point for arch/arm
16 2) Entry point for arch/powerpc
17 3) Entry point for arch/x86
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21 II - The DT block format
22 1) Header
23 2) Device tree generalities
24 3) Device tree "structure" block
25 4) Device tree "strings" block
26
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
33 a) The root node
34 b) The /cpus node
35 c) The /cpus/* nodes
36 d) the /memory node(s)
37 e) The /chosen node
38 f) the /soc<SOCname> node
39
40 IV - "dtc", the device tree compiler
41
42 V - Recommendations for a bootloader
43
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
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b9e0ba81 48 VII - Specifying interrupt information for devices
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49 1) interrupts property
50 2) interrupt-parent property
51 3) OpenPIC Interrupt Controllers
52 4) ISA Interrupt Controllers
53
b9e0ba81 54 VIII - Specifying device power management information (sleep property)
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56 IX - Specifying dma bus information
57
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58 Appendix A - Sample SOC node for MPC8540
59
60
61Revision Information
62====================
63
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64 May 18, 2005: Rev 0.1 - Initial draft, no chapter III yet.
65
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.
71
72 May 24, 2005: Rev 0.3 - Precise that DT block has to be in RAM
73 - Misc fixes
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
79 compactness.
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
84
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
5d3f083d 90 required alignment between property size
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91 and property data. The old style variable
92 alignment would make it impossible to do
93 "simple" insertion of properties using
5dd60166 94 memmove (thanks Milton for
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5d3f083d 96 - Correct a few more alignment constraints
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97 - Add a chapter about the device-tree
98 compiler and the textural representation of
99 the tree that can be "compiled" by dtc.
100
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101 November 21, 2005: Rev 0.5
102 - Additions/generalizations for 32-bit
103 - Changed to reflect the new arch/powerpc
104 structure
105 - Added chapter VI
106
107
108 ToDo:
109 - Add some definitions of interrupt tree (simple/complex)
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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
114 OF spec.
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.
119
120
121I - Introduction
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123
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125specifically, the addition of new platform types outside of the old
126IBM pSeries/iSeries pair, it was decided to enforce some strict rules
127regarding the kernel entry and bootloader <-> kernel interfaces, in
128order to avoid the degeneration that had become the ppc32 kernel entry
129point and the way a new platform should be added to the kernel. The
130legacy iSeries platform breaks those rules as it predates this scheme,
131but no new board support will be accepted in the main tree that
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133arch/powerpc merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64, new 32-bit
134platforms and 32-bit platforms which move into arch/powerpc will be
135required to use these rules as well.
136
137The main requirement that will be defined in more detail below is
138the presence of a device-tree whose format is defined after Open
139Firmware specification. However, in order to make life easier
140to embedded board vendors, the kernel doesn't require the device-tree
141to represent every device in the system and only requires some nodes
142and properties to be present. This will be described in detail in
143section III, but, for example, the kernel does not require you to
144create a node for every PCI device in the system. It is a requirement
145to have a node for PCI host bridges in order to provide interrupt
f65e51d7 146routing information and memory/IO ranges, among others. It is also
cf4e5c6e 147recommended to define nodes for on chip devices and other buses that
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148don't specifically fit in an existing OF specification. This creates a
149great flexibility in the way the kernel can then probe those and match
150drivers to device, without having to hard code all sorts of tables. It
151also makes it more flexible for board vendors to do minor hardware
152upgrades without significantly impacting the kernel code or cluttering
153it with special cases.
154
155
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158
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
164
165 a) ATAGS interface. Minimal information is passed from firmware
166 to the kernel with a tagged list of predefined parameters.
167
168 r0 : 0
169
170 r1 : Machine type number
171
172 r2 : Physical address of tagged list in system RAM
173
174 b) Entry with a flattened device-tree block. Firmware loads the
175 physical address of the flattened device tree block (dtb) into r2,
40e47125 176 r1 is not used, but it is considered good practice to use a valid
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177 machine number as described in Documentation/arm/Booting.
178
179 r0 : 0
180
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.
184
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
188 boundary.
189
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).
194
1952) Entry point for arch/powerpc
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197
cf4e5c6e 198 There is one single entry point to the kernel, at the start
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199 of the kernel image. That entry point supports two calling
200 conventions:
201
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:
206
207 r5 : OF callback pointer as defined by IEEE 1275
5dd60166 208 bindings to powerpc. Only the 32-bit client interface
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209 is currently supported
210
211 r3, r4 : address & length of an initrd if any or 0
212
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.
221
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:
232
233 r3 : physical pointer to the device-tree block
234 (defined in chapter II) in RAM
235
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.
240
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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.
249
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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
254 should:
255
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.
260
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
267
cf4e5c6e 268 A kernel image may support multiple platforms, but only if the
5dd60166 269 platforms feature the same core architecture. A single kernel build
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270 cannot support both configurations with Book E and configurations
271 with classic Powerpc architectures.
272
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275
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
284
285 #define SETUP_DTB 2
286
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.
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294----------------------------------
295
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().
300
301 Similar to the arch/arm case (b), a DT-aware bootloader is expected to
302 set up the following registers:
303
304 a0 : 0
305
306 a1 : 0xffffffff
307
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.
312
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
315 CONFIG_DT_*.
316
317 This convention is defined for 32-bit systems only, as there are not
318 currently any 64-bit BMIPS implementations.
319
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321--------------------------
322
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.
330
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332II - The DT block format
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334
335
336This chapter defines the actual format of the flattened device-tree
337passed to the kernel. The actual content of it and kernel requirements
338are described later. You can find example of code manipulating that
339format in various places, including arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
340which will generate a flattened device-tree from the Open Firmware
341representation, or the fs2dt utility which is part of the kexec tools
342which will generate one from a filesystem representation. It is
343expected that a bootloader like uboot provides a bit more support,
344that will be discussed later as well.
345
346Note: The block has to be in main memory. It has to be accessible in
347both real mode and virtual mode with no mapping other than main
348memory. If you are writing a simple flash bootloader, it should copy
349the block to RAM before passing it to the kernel.
350
351
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354
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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
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357 boot_param_header:
358
359struct 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
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366 u32 version; /* format version */
367 u32 last_comp_version; /* last compatible version */
368
369 /* version 2 fields below */
370 u32 boot_cpuid_phys; /* Which physical CPU id we're
371 booting on */
372 /* version 3 fields below */
373 u32 size_dt_strings; /* size of the strings block */
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375 /* version 17 fields below */
376 u32 size_dt_struct; /* size of the DT structure block */
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378
379 Along with the constants:
380
381/* Definitions used by the flattened device tree */
382#define OF_DT_HEADER 0xd00dfeed /* 4: version,
383 4: total size */
384#define OF_DT_BEGIN_NODE 0x1 /* Start node: full name
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386#define OF_DT_END_NODE 0x2 /* End node */
387#define OF_DT_PROP 0x3 /* Property: name off,
388 size, content */
389#define OF_DT_END 0x9
390
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
cf4e5c6e 394 from the physical base address of the device tree block.
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396 - magic
397
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
401
402 - totalsize
403
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.
408
409 - off_dt_struct
410
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)
413
414 - off_dt_strings
415
416 This is an offset from the beginning of the header to the start
417 of the "strings" part of the device-tree
418
419 - off_mem_rsvmap
420
421 This is an offset from the beginning of the header to the start
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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
5dd60166 436 should be 64-bit aligned.
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438 - version
439
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
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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.
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454 - last_comp_version
455
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
0e0293c8 461 version 1 to 3, or 16 if you generate a tree of version 16 or 17
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462 using the new unit name format.
463
464 - boot_cpuid_phys
465
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
f65e51d7 471 point (see further chapters for more information on the required
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472 device-tree contents)
473
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474 - size_dt_strings
475
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).
479
480 - size_dt_struct
481
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).
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485
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
488 bottom):
489
490
491 ------------------------------
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494 | (alignment gap) (*) |
495 ------------------------------
496 | memory reserve map |
497 ------------------------------
498 | (alignment gap) |
499 ------------------------------
500 | |
501 | device-tree structure |
502 | |
503 ------------------------------
504 | (alignment gap) |
505 ------------------------------
506 | |
507 | device-tree strings |
508 | |
509 -----> ------------------------------
510 |
511 |
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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.
517
518
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520---------------------------
521
522This device-tree itself is separated in two different blocks, a
523structure block and a strings block. Both need to be aligned to a 4
524byte boundary.
525
526First, let's quickly describe the device-tree concept before detailing
527the storage format. This chapter does _not_ describe the detail of the
528required types of nodes & properties for the kernel, this is done
529later in chapter III.
530
531The device-tree layout is strongly inherited from the definition of
532the Open Firmware IEEE 1275 device-tree. It's basically a tree of
533nodes, each node having two or more named properties. A property can
534have a value or not.
535
536It is a tree, so each node has one and only one parent except for the
537root node who has no parent.
538
539A node has 2 names. The actual node name is generally contained in a
540property of type "name" in the node property list whose value is a
541zero terminated string and is mandatory for version 1 to 3 of the
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543optional as it can generate it from the unit name defined below.
544
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2fe0ae78 547names, the "@" sign, and a "unit address", which definition is
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548specific to the bus type the node sits on.
549
550The unit name doesn't exist as a property per-se but is included in
551the device-tree structure. It is typically used to represent "path" in
552the device-tree. More details about the actual format of these will be
553below.
554
cf4e5c6e 555The kernel generic code does not make any formal use of the
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556unit address (though some board support code may do) so the only real
557requirement here for the unit address is to ensure uniqueness of
558the node unit name at a given level of the tree. Nodes with no notion
559of 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,
561or use the "@0" default unit address. The unit name is used to define
562a node "full path", which is the concatenation of all parent node
563unit names separated with "/".
564
565The root node doesn't have a defined name, and isn't required to have
566a name property either if you are using version 3 or earlier of the
567format. It also has no unit address (no @ symbol followed by a unit
568address). The root node unit name is thus an empty string. The full
569path to the root node is "/".
570
571Every node which actually represents an actual device (that is, a node
572which isn't only a virtual "container" for more nodes, like "/cpus"
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574specific hardware and an optional list of devices it is fully
575backwards compatible with.
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577Finally, every node that can be referenced from a property in another
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578node is required to have either a "phandle" or a "linux,phandle"
579property. Real Open Firmware implementations provide a unique
580"phandle" value for every node that the "prom_init()" trampoline code
581turns into "linux,phandle" properties. However, this is made optional
582if the flattened device tree is used directly. An example of a node
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583referencing another node via "phandle" is when laying out the
584interrupt tree which will be described in a further version of this
585document.
586
cf4e5c6e 587The "phandle" property is a 32-bit value that uniquely
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588identifies a node. You are free to use whatever values or system of
589values, internal pointers, or whatever to generate these, the only
590requirement is that every node for which you provide that property has
591a unique value for it.
592
593Here is an example of a simple device-tree. In this example, an "o"
594designates a node followed by the node unit name. Properties are
595presented with their name followed by their content. "content"
596represents an ASCII string (zero terminated) value, while <content>
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598latter prefixed 0x). The various nodes in this example will be
599discussed in a later chapter. At this point, it is only meant to give
600you a idea of what a device-tree looks like. I have purposefully kept
601the "name" and "linux,phandle" properties which aren't necessary in
602order to give you a better idea of what the tree looks like in
603practice.
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605 / o device-tree
606 |- name = "device-tree"
607 |- model = "MyBoardName"
608 |- compatible = "MyBoardFamilyName"
609 |- #address-cells = <2>
610 |- #size-cells = <2>
611 |- linux,phandle = <0>
612 |
613 o cpus
614 | | - name = "cpus"
615 | | - linux,phandle = <1>
616 | | - #address-cells = <1>
617 | | - #size-cells = <0>
618 | |
619 | o PowerPC,970@0
620 | |- name = "PowerPC,970"
621 | |- device_type = "cpu"
622 | |- reg = <0>
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626 |
627 o memory@0
628 | |- name = "memory"
629 | |- device_type = "memory"
36793623 630 | |- reg = <0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x20000000>
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632 |
633 o chosen
634 |- name = "chosen"
635 |- bootargs = "root=/dev/sda2"
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637
638This tree is almost a minimal tree. It pretty much contains the
639minimal set of required nodes and properties to boot a linux kernel;
f65e51d7 640that is, some basic model information at the root, the CPUs, and the
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641physical memory layout. It also includes misc information passed
642through /chosen, like in this example, the platform type (mandatory)
643and the kernel command line arguments (optional).
644
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646property without a value. All other properties have a value. The
647significance of the #address-cells and #size-cells properties will be
648explained in chapter IV which defines precisely the required nodes and
649properties and their content.
650
651
6523) Device tree "structure" block
653
654The 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"
656ends 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
658bit value. The tree has to be "finished" with a OF_DT_END token
659
660Here's the basic structure of a single node:
661
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
666 root node)
667 * [align gap to next 4 bytes boundary]
668 * for each property:
669 * token OF_DT_PROP (that is 0x00000003)
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671 value)
672 * 32-bit value of offset in string block of property name
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674 * [align gap to next 4 bytes boundary]
675 * [child nodes if any]
676 * token OF_DT_END_NODE (that is 0x00000002)
677
5dd60166 678So the node content can be summarized as a start token, a full path,
53cb4726 679a list of properties, a list of child nodes, and an end token. Every
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680child node is a full node structure itself as defined above.
681
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683a particular node MUST precede any subnode definitions for that node.
684Although the structure would not be ambiguous if properties and
685subnodes were intermingled, the kernel parser requires that the
686properties come first (up until at least 2.6.22). Any tools
687manipulating a flattened tree must take care to preserve this
688constraint.
689
53cb4726 6904) Device tree "strings" block
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692In order to save space, property names, which are generally redundant,
693are stored separately in the "strings" block. This block is simply the
694whole bunch of zero terminated strings for all property names
695concatenated together. The device-tree property definitions in the
696structure block will contain offset values from the beginning of the
697strings block.
698
699
700III - Required content of the device tree
701=========================================
702
703WARNING: All "linux,*" properties defined in this document apply only
704to a flattened device-tree. If your platform uses a real
705implementation of Open Firmware or an implementation compatible with
706the Open Firmware client interface, those properties will be created
707by the trampoline code in the kernel's prom_init() file. For example,
708that's where you'll have to add code to detect your board model and
a2ffd275 709set the platform number. However, when using the flattened device-tree
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710entry point, there is no prom_init() pass, and thus you have to
711provide those properties yourself.
712
713
7141) Note about cells and address representation
715----------------------------------------------
716
717The general rule is documented in the various Open Firmware
5dd60166 718documentations. If you choose to describe a bus with the device-tree
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720specification. However, the kernel does not require every single
721device or bus to be described by the device tree.
722
723In general, the format of an address for a device is defined by the
724parent bus type, based on the #address-cells and #size-cells
5b14e5f9 725properties. Note that the parent's parent definitions of #address-cells
d9195881 726and #size-cells are not inherited so every node with children must specify
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728addresses format for devices directly mapped on the processor bus.
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730Those 2 properties define 'cells' for representing an address and a
5dd60166 731size. A "cell" is a 32-bit number. For example, if both contain 2
c125a183 732like the example tree given above, then an address and a size are both
5dd60166 733composed of 2 cells, and each is a 64-bit number (cells are
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734concatenated and expected to be in big endian format). Another example
735is the way Apple firmware defines them, with 2 cells for an address
736and 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.
738Some 32-bit processors allow for physical addresses greater than 32
739bits; these processors should define #address-cells as 2.
740
741"reg" properties are always a tuple of the type "address size" where
742the number of cells of address and size is specified by the bus
743#address-cells and #size-cells. When a bus supports various address
744spaces and other flags relative to a given address allocation (like
745prefetchable, etc...) those flags are usually added to the top level
746bits of the physical address. For example, a PCI physical address is
747made of 3 cells, the bottom two containing the actual address itself
748while the top cell contains address space indication, flags, and pci
749bus & device numbers.
750
cf4e5c6e 751For buses that support dynamic allocation, it's the accepted practice
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752to then not provide the address in "reg" (keep it 0) though while
753providing a flag indicating the address is dynamically allocated, and
754then, to provide a separate "assigned-addresses" property that
755contains the fully allocated addresses. See the PCI OF bindings for
756details.
757
758In general, a simple bus with no address space bits and no dynamic
759allocation is preferred if it reflects your hardware, as the existing
760kernel address parsing functions will work out of the box. If you
761define a bus type with a more complex address format, including things
762like address space bits, you'll have to add a bus translator to the
763prom_parse.c file of the recent kernels for your bus type.
764
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766non-0) within a given bus. In order to translate addresses upward
5dd60166 767(that is into parent bus addresses, and possibly into CPU physical
cf4e5c6e 768addresses), all buses must contain a "ranges" property. If the
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771parent bus. The format of the "ranges" property for a bus is a list
772of:
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774 bus address, parent bus address, size
775
776"bus address" is in the format of the bus this bus node is defining,
777that is, for a PCI bridge, it would be a PCI address. Thus, (bus
778address, size) defines a range of addresses for child devices. "parent
779bus address" is in the format of the parent bus of this bus. For
780example, for a PCI host controller, that would be a CPU address. For a
781PCI<->ISA bridge, that would be a PCI address. It defines the base
782address in the parent bus where the beginning of that range is mapped.
783
cf4e5c6e 784For new 64-bit board support, I recommend either the 2/2 format or
c125a183 785Apple's 2/1 format which is slightly more compact since sizes usually
cf4e5c6e 786fit in a single 32-bit word. New 32-bit board support should use a
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788than 32-bits, in which case a 2/1 format is recommended.
789
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791registers are visible on the parent bus using an identity mapping
792translation. In other words, the parent bus address space is the same
793as the child bus address space.
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7952) Note about "compatible" properties
796-------------------------------------
797
798These properties are optional, but recommended in devices and the root
799node. The format of a "compatible" property is a list of concatenated
800zero terminated strings. They allow a device to express its
801compatibility with a family of similar devices, in some cases,
802allowing a single driver to match against several devices regardless
803of their actual names.
804
8053) Note about "name" properties
806-------------------------------
807
808While earlier users of Open Firmware like OldWorld macintoshes tended
809to use the actual device name for the "name" property, it's nowadays
810considered a good practice to use a name that is closer to the device
cf4e5c6e 811class (often equal to device_type). For example, nowadays, Ethernet
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812controllers are named "ethernet", an additional "model" property
813defining precisely the chip type/model, and "compatible" property
814defining the family in case a single driver can driver more than one
815of these chips. However, the kernel doesn't generally put any
816restriction on the "name" property; it is simply considered good
817practice to follow the standard and its evolutions as closely as
818possible.
819
820Note also that the new format version 16 makes the "name" property
821optional. If it's absent for a node, then the node's unit name is then
822used to reconstruct the name. That is, the part of the unit name
823before the "@" sign is used (or the entire unit name if no "@" sign
824is present).
825
8264) Note about node and property names and character set
827-------------------------------------------------------
828
cf4e5c6e 829While Open Firmware provides more flexible usage of 8859-1, this
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830specification enforces more strict rules. Nodes and properties should
831be comprised only of ASCII characters 'a' to 'z', '0' to
832'9', ',', '.', '_', '+', '#', '?', and '-'. Node names additionally
833allow uppercase characters 'A' to 'Z' (property names should be
834lowercase. The fact that vendors like Apple don't respect this rule is
835irrelevant here). Additionally, node and property names should always
836begin with a character in the range 'a' to 'z' (or 'A' to 'Z' for node
837names).
838
839The maximum number of characters for both nodes and property names
840is 31. In the case of node names, this is only the leftmost part of
841a unit name (the pure "name" property), it doesn't include the unit
842address which can extend beyond that limit.
843
844
8455) 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
cf4e5c6e 849 PCI binding to Open Firmware, and your interrupt tree as documented
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850 in OF interrupt tree specification.
851
852 a) The root node
853
854 The root node requires some properties to be present:
855
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
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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
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863 compatible property followed by an entry that represents the SoC
864 model.
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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
6c28f2c0 868 thing. It is recommended that if you add any "custom" property whose
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869 name may clash with standard defined ones, you prefix them with your
870 vendor name and a comma.
871
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873
874 - serial-number : a string representing the device's serial number
875
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877
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
880 to have at least:
881
882 #address-cells = <00000001>
883 #size-cells = <00000000>
884
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
888 below
889
890 c) The /cpus/* nodes
891
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
cf4e5c6e 894 CPU, though it's common to call it <architecture>,<core>. For
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897 better to simply use 'cpu' for each cpu node and use the compatible
898 property to identify the specific cpu core.
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900 Required properties:
901
902 - device_type : has to be "cpu"
5dd60166 903 - reg : This is the physical CPU number, it's a single 32-bit cell
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905 unit name in the full path. For example, with 2 CPUs, you would
906 have the full path:
907 /cpus/PowerPC,970FX@0
908 /cpus/PowerPC,970FX@1
909 (unit addresses do not require leading zeroes)
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911 - i-cache-block-size : one cell, L1 instruction cache block size in
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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
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917instructions operate. Historically, this document used the cache
918"line" size here which is incorrect. The kernel will prefer the cache
919block size and will fallback to cache line size for backward
920compatibility.
921
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923
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
928 value.
929 - clock-frequency : a cell indicating the CPU core clock frequency
5dd60166 930 in Hz. A new property will be defined for 64-bit values, but if
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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.
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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
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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.
945
946
947 d) the /memory node(s)
948
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
955 @0.
956
957 Required properties:
958
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,
6c28f2c0 964 with both of these properties being 2 like in the example given
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966 have a "reg" property here that looks like:
967
968 00000000 00000000 00000000 80000000
969 00000001 00000000 00000001 00000000
970
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.
976
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978
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.
983
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985
cf4e5c6e 986 This node is a bit "special". Normally, that's where Open Firmware
c125a183 987 puts some variable environment information, like the arguments, or
d1bff9ed 988 the default input/output devices.
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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.
994
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996
997 - bootargs : This zero-terminated string is passed as the kernel
998 command line
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
cf4e5c6e 1003 it up as its own default console.
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1005 Note that u-boot creates and fills in the chosen node for platforms
1006 that use it.
1007
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1009 under /chosen called interrupt-controller which had a phandle value
1010 that pointed to the main interrupt controller)
1011
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1013
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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
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1020 represent the part number for the soc. For example, the MPC8540's
1021 soc node would be called "soc8540".
1022
1023 Required properties:
1024
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1027 - bus-frequency: Contains the bus frequency for the SoC node.
7d4b95ae 1028 Typically, the value of this field is filled in by the boot
efcc2da3 1029 loader.
cf4e5c6e 1030 - compatible : Exact model of the SoC
7d4b95ae 1031
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1033 Recommended properties:
1034
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
1054 controller.
1055
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
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1061 Example SOC node for the MPC8540:
1062
1063 soc8540@e0000000 {
1064 #address-cells = <1>;
1065 #size-cells = <1>;
1066 #interrupt-cells = <2>;
1067 device_type = "soc";
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1069 reg = <0xe0000000 0x00003000>;
7d4b95ae 1070 bus-frequency = <0>;
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1072
1073
1074
1075IV - "dtc", the device tree compiler
1076====================================
1077
1078
1079dtc source code can be found at
0ea6e611 1080<http://git.jdl.com/gitweb/?p=dtc.git>
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1082WARNING: This version is still in early development stage; the
1083resulting device-tree "blobs" have not yet been validated with the
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1086it up) among others. The error handling needs work, bugs are lurking,
1087etc...
1088
1089dtc basically takes a device-tree in a given format and outputs a
1090device-tree in another format. The currently supported formats are:
1091
1092 Input formats:
1093 -------------
1094
1095 - "dtb": "blob" format, that is a flattened device-tree block
1096 with
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
1100 chapter.
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
1104
1105 Output formats:
1106 ---------------
1107
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
6c28f2c0 1113 assembly file exports some symbols that can be used.
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1115
1116The syntax of the dtc tool is
1117
1118 dtc [-I <input-format>] [-O <output-format>]
1119 [-o output-filename] [-V output_version] input_filename
1120
1121
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1124currently version 3 but that may change in the future to version 16.
1125
1126Additionally, dtc performs various sanity checks on the tree, like the
6c28f2c0 1127uniqueness of linux, phandle properties, validity of strings, etc...
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1129The format of the .dts "source" file is "C" like, supports C and C++
6c28f2c0 1130style comments.
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1132/ {
1133}
1134
1135The above is the "device-tree" definition. It's the only statement
1136supported currently at the toplevel.
1137
1138/ {
1139 property1 = "string_value"; /* define a property containing a 0
1140 * terminated string
1141 */
1142
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5dd60166 1144 * numerical 32-bit value (hexadecimal)
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1146
36793623 1147 property3 = <0x12345678 0x12345678 0xdeadbeef>;
c125a183 1148 /* define a property containing 3
5dd60166 1149 * numerical 32-bit values (cells) in
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1151 */
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1154 * an arbitrary array of bytes
1155 */
1156
b595076a 1157 childnode@address { /* define a child node named "childnode"
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1159 * address"
1160 */
1161
1162 childprop = "hello\n"; /* define a property "childprop" of
1163 * childnode (in this case, a string)
1164 */
1165 };
1166};
1167
1168Nodes can contain other nodes etc... thus defining the hierarchical
1169structure of the tree.
1170
1171Strings support common escape sequences from C: "\n", "\t", "\r",
1172"\(octal value)", "\x(hex value)".
1173
1174It is also suggested that you pipe your source file through cpp (gcc
1175preprocessor) so you can use #include's, #define for constants, etc...
1176
1177Finally, various options are planned but not yet implemented, like
1178automatic generation of phandles, labels (exported to the asm file so
1179you can point to a property content and change it easily from whatever
1180you link the device-tree with), label or path instead of numeric value
1181in some cells to "point" to a node (replaced by a phandle at compile
1182time), export of reserve map address to the asm file, ability to
1183specify reserve map content at compile time, etc...
1184
1185We may provide a .h include file with common definitions of that
1186proves useful for some properties (like building PCI properties or
1187interrupt maps) though it may be better to add a notion of struct
1188definitions to the compiler...
1189
1190
1191V - Recommendations for a bootloader
1192====================================
1193
1194
1195Here are some various ideas/recommendations that have been proposed
1196while all this has been defined and implemented.
1197
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
1210 purpose.
1211
d6bc8ac9 1212 - An example of code for iterating nodes & retrieving properties
c125a183 1213 directly from the flattened tree format can be found in the kernel
cf4e5c6e 1214 file drivers/of/fdt.c. Look at the of_scan_flat_dt() function,
d6bc8ac9 1215 its usage in early_init_devtree(), and the corresponding various
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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
5dd60166 1218 to discuss possible free licensing to any vendor who wishes to
c125a183 1219 integrate all or part of this code into a non-GPL bootloader.
cf4e5c6e 1220 (reference needed; who is 'I' here? ---gcl Jan 31, 2011)
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1222
1223
1224VI - System-on-a-chip devices and nodes
1225=======================================
1226
1227Many companies are now starting to develop system-on-a-chip
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1229exist on a single piece of silicon. For these SOCs, an SOC node
1230should be used that defines child nodes for the devices that make
1231up the SOC. While platforms are not required to use this model in
1232order to boot the kernel, it is highly encouraged that all SOC
1233implementations define as complete a flat-device-tree as possible to
1234describe the devices on the SOC. This will allow for the
1235genericization of much of the kernel code.
1236
1237
12381) Defining child nodes of an SOC
1239---------------------------------
1240
1241Each device that is part of an SOC may have its own node entry inside
1242the SOC node. For each device that is included in the SOC, the unit
1243address property represents the address offset for this device's
1244memory-mapped registers in the parent's address space. The parent's
1245address space is defined by the "ranges" property in the top-level soc
1246node. The "reg" property for each node that exists directly under the
1247SOC node should contain the address mapping from the child address space
1248to the parent SOC address space and the size of the device's
1249memory-mapped register file.
1250
1251For many devices that may exist inside an SOC, there are predefined
1252specifications for the format of the device tree node. All SOC child
1253nodes should follow these specifications, except where noted in this
1254document.
1255
1256See appendix A for an example partial SOC node definition for the
1257MPC8540.
1258
1259
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1262
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1263Currently, there are many devices on SoCs that do not have a standard
1264representation defined as part of the Open Firmware specifications,
1265mainly because the boards that contain these SoCs are not currently
1266booted using Open Firmware. Binding documentation for new devices
1267should be added to the Documentation/devicetree/bindings directory.
1268That directory will expand as device tree support is added to more and
1269more SoCs.
1270
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1273===================================================
1274
cf4e5c6e 1275The device tree represents the buses and devices of a hardware
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1276system in a form similar to the physical bus topology of the
1277hardware.
1278
1279In addition, a logical 'interrupt tree' exists which represents the
1280hierarchy and routing of interrupts in the hardware.
1281
1282The interrupt tree model is fully described in the
1283document "Open Firmware Recommended Practice: Interrupt
1284Mapping Version 0.9". The document is available at:
242260fb 1285<http://www.openfirmware.org/ofwg/practice/>
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1286
12871) interrupts property
1288----------------------
1289
1290Devices that generate interrupts to a single interrupt controller
1291should use the conventional OF representation described in the
1292OF interrupt mapping documentation.
1293
1294Each device which generates interrupts must have an 'interrupt'
1295property. The interrupt property value is an arbitrary number of
1296of 'interrupt specifier' values which describe the interrupt or
1297interrupts for the device.
1298
1299The encoding of an interrupt specifier is determined by the
1300interrupt domain in which the device is located in the
1301interrupt tree. The root of an interrupt domain specifies in
1302its #interrupt-cells property the number of 32-bit cells
1303required to encode an interrupt specifier. See the OF interrupt
1304mapping documentation for a detailed description of domains.
1305
1306For example, the binding for the OpenPIC interrupt controller
1307specifies an #interrupt-cells value of 2 to encode the interrupt
1308number and level/sense information. All interrupt children in an
1309OpenPIC interrupt domain use 2 cells per interrupt in their interrupts
1310property.
1311
1312The PCI bus binding specifies a #interrupt-cell value of 1 to encode
1313which interrupt pin (INTA,INTB,INTC,INTD) is used.
1314
13152) interrupt-parent property
1316----------------------------
1317
1318The interrupt-parent property is specified to define an explicit
1319link between a device node and its interrupt parent in
1320the interrupt tree. The value of interrupt-parent is the
1321phandle of the parent node.
1322
a33f3224 1323If the interrupt-parent property is not defined for a node, its
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1324interrupt parent is assumed to be an ancestor in the node's
1325_device tree_ hierarchy.
1326
13273) OpenPIC Interrupt Controllers
1328--------------------------------
1329
1330OpenPIC interrupt controllers require 2 cells to encode
1331interrupt information. The first cell defines the interrupt
1332number. The second cell defines the sense and level
1333information.
1334
1335Sense and level information should be encoded as follows:
1336
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
1341
13424) ISA Interrupt Controllers
1343----------------------------
1344
1345ISA PIC interrupt controllers require 2 cells to encode
1346interrupt information. The first cell defines the interrupt
1347number. The second cell defines the sense and level
1348information.
1349
1350ISA PIC interrupt controllers should adhere to the ISA PIC
1351encodings listed below:
1352
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
1357
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1360
1361Devices on SOCs often have mechanisms for placing devices into low-power
1362states that are decoupled from the devices' own register blocks. Sometimes,
1363this information is more complicated than a cell-index property can
1364reasonably describe. Thus, each device controlled in such a manner
1365may contain a "sleep" property which describes these connections.
1366
1367The sleep property consists of one or more sleep resources, each of
1368which consists of a phandle to a sleep controller, followed by a
1369controller-specific sleep specifier of zero or more cells.
1370
1371The semantics of what type of low power modes are possible are defined
1372by the sleep controller. Some examples of the types of low power modes
1373that may be supported are:
1374
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
1379 reset).
1380
1381Some devices may share a clock domain with each other, such that they should
1382only be suspended when none of the devices are in use. Where reasonable,
1383such nodes should be placed on a virtual bus, where the bus has the sleep
1384property. If the clock domain is shared among devices that cannot be
1385reasonably grouped in this manner, then create a virtual sleep controller
1386(similar to an interrupt nexus, except that defining a standardized
1387sleep-map should wait until its necessity is demonstrated).
1388
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1390
1391Some devices may have DMA memory range shifted relatively to the beginning of
1392RAM, or even placed outside of kernel RAM. For example, the Keystone 2 SoC
1393worked in LPAE mode with 4G memory has:
1394- RAM range: [0x8 0000 0000, 0x8 FFFF FFFF]
1395- DMA range: [ 0x8000 0000, 0xFFFF FFFF]
1396and DMA range is aliased into first 2G of RAM in HW.
1397
1398In such cases, DMA addresses translation should be performed between CPU phys
1399and DMA addresses. The "dma-ranges" property is intended to be used
1400for describing the configuration of such system in DT.
1401
1402In addition, each DMA master device on the DMA bus may or may not support
1403coherent DMA operations. The "dma-coherent" property is intended to be used
1404for identifying devices supported coherent DMA operations in DT.
1405
1406* DMA Bus master
1407Optional property:
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)
1417
1418* DMA Bus child
1419Optional property:
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
1423
1424Example:
1425soc {
1426 compatible = "ti,keystone","simple-bus";
1427 ranges = <0x0 0x0 0x0 0xc0000000>;
1428 dma-ranges = <0x80000000 0x8 0x00000000 0x80000000>;
1429
1430 [...]
1431
1432 usb: usb@2680000 {
1433 compatible = "ti,keystone-dwc3";
1434
1435 [...]
1436 dma-coherent;
1437 };
1438};
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1441========================================
1442
7e72063c 1443 soc@e0000000 {
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1444 #address-cells = <1>;
1445 #size-cells = <1>;
7e72063c 1446 compatible = "fsl,mpc8540-ccsr", "simple-bus";
c125a183 1447 device_type = "soc";
7e72063c 1448 ranges = <0x00000000 0xe0000000 0x00100000>
7d4b95ae 1449 bus-frequency = <0>;
7e72063c 1450 interrupt-parent = <&pic>;
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c125a183 1452 ethernet@24000 {
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1454 #size-cells = <1>;
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1455 device_type = "network";
1456 model = "TSEC";
2dff4177 1457 compatible = "gianfar", "simple-bus";
7e72063c 1458 reg = <0x24000 0x1000>;
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1460 interrupts = <0x29 2 0x30 2 0x34 2>;
7e72063c 1461 phy-handle = <&phy0>;
36793623 1462 sleep = <&pmc 0x00000080>;
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1464
1465 mdio@24520 {
7e72063c 1466 reg = <0x24520 0x20>;
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1468
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1470 interrupts = <5 1>;
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1473
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1475 interrupts = <5 1>;
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1478
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1480 interrupts = <7 1>;
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1483 };
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1485
1486 ethernet@25000 {
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1488 model = "TSEC";
1489 compatible = "gianfar";
7e72063c 1490 reg = <0x25000 0x1000>;
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1492 interrupts = <0x13 2 0x14 2 0x18 2>;
7e72063c 1493 phy-handle = <&phy1>;
36793623 1494 sleep = <&pmc 0x00000040>;
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1496
1497 ethernet@26000 {
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1499 model = "FEC";
1500 compatible = "gianfar";
7e72063c 1501 reg = <0x26000 0x1000>;
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1503 interrupts = <0x41 2>;
7e72063c 1504 phy-handle = <&phy3>;
36793623 1505 sleep = <&pmc 0x00000020>;
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1507
1508 serial@4500 {
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1510 #size-cells = <1>;
1511 compatible = "fsl,mpc8540-duart", "simple-bus";
36793623 1512 sleep = <&pmc 0x00000002>;
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1514
1515 serial@4500 {
1516 device_type = "serial";
1517 compatible = "ns16550";
7e72063c 1518 reg = <0x4500 0x100>;
2dff4177 1519 clock-frequency = <0>;
36793623 1520 interrupts = <0x42 2>;
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1522
1523 serial@4600 {
1524 device_type = "serial";
1525 compatible = "ns16550";
7e72063c 1526 reg = <0x4600 0x100>;
2dff4177 1527 clock-frequency = <0>;
36793623 1528 interrupts = <0x42 2>;
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1531
7e72063c 1532 pic: pic@40000 {
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1534 #address-cells = <0>;
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1536 reg = <0x40000 0x40000>;
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1538 device_type = "open-pic";
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1540
1541 i2c@3000 {
36793623 1542 interrupts = <0x43 2>;
7e72063c 1543 reg = <0x3000 0x100>;
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1545 dfsrr;
36793623 1546 sleep = <&pmc 0x00000004>;
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1548
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1550 compatible = "fsl,mpc8540-pmc", "fsl,mpc8548-pmc";
7e72063c 1551 reg = <0xe0070 0x20>;
2dff4177 1552 };
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