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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
9c24ce29 18 4) Entry point for arch/mips/bmips
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20 II - The DT block format
21 1) Header
22 2) Device tree generalities
23 3) Device tree "structure" block
24 4) Device tree "strings" block
25
26 III - Required content of the device tree
27 1) Note about cells and address representation
28 2) Note about "compatible" properties
29 3) Note about "name" properties
30 4) Note about node and property names and character set
31 5) Required nodes and properties
32 a) The root node
33 b) The /cpus node
34 c) The /cpus/* nodes
35 d) the /memory node(s)
36 e) The /chosen node
37 f) the /soc<SOCname> node
38
39 IV - "dtc", the device tree compiler
40
41 V - Recommendations for a bootloader
42
43 VI - System-on-a-chip devices and nodes
44 1) Defining child nodes of an SOC
45 2) Representing devices without a current OF specification
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b9e0ba81 47 VII - Specifying interrupt information for devices
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48 1) interrupts property
49 2) interrupt-parent property
50 3) OpenPIC Interrupt Controllers
51 4) ISA Interrupt Controllers
52
b9e0ba81 53 VIII - Specifying device power management information (sleep property)
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55 IX - Specifying dma bus information
56
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57 Appendix A - Sample SOC node for MPC8540
58
59
60Revision Information
61====================
62
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63 May 18, 2005: Rev 0.1 - Initial draft, no chapter III yet.
64
65 May 19, 2005: Rev 0.2 - Add chapter III and bits & pieces here or
66 clarifies the fact that a lot of things are
67 optional, the kernel only requires a very
68 small device tree, though it is encouraged
69 to provide an as complete one as possible.
70
71 May 24, 2005: Rev 0.3 - Precise that DT block has to be in RAM
72 - Misc fixes
73 - Define version 3 and new format version 16
74 for the DT block (version 16 needs kernel
75 patches, will be fwd separately).
76 String block now has a size, and full path
77 is replaced by unit name for more
78 compactness.
79 linux,phandle is made optional, only nodes
80 that are referenced by other nodes need it.
81 "name" property is now automatically
82 deduced from the unit name
83
84 June 1, 2005: Rev 0.4 - Correct confusion between OF_DT_END and
85 OF_DT_END_NODE in structure definition.
86 - Change version 16 format to always align
87 property data to 4 bytes. Since tokens are
88 already aligned, that means no specific
5d3f083d 89 required alignment between property size
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90 and property data. The old style variable
91 alignment would make it impossible to do
92 "simple" insertion of properties using
5dd60166 93 memmove (thanks Milton for
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5d3f083d 95 - Correct a few more alignment constraints
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96 - Add a chapter about the device-tree
97 compiler and the textural representation of
98 the tree that can be "compiled" by dtc.
99
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100 November 21, 2005: Rev 0.5
101 - Additions/generalizations for 32-bit
102 - Changed to reflect the new arch/powerpc
103 structure
104 - Added chapter VI
105
106
107 ToDo:
108 - Add some definitions of interrupt tree (simple/complex)
5dd60166 109 - Add some definitions for PCI host bridges
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110 - Add some common address format examples
111 - Add definitions for standard properties and "compatible"
112 names for cells that are not already defined by the existing
113 OF spec.
114 - Compare FSL SOC use of PCI to standard and make sure no new
115 node definition required.
116 - Add more information about node definitions for SOC devices
117 that currently have no standard, like the FSL CPM.
118
119
120I - Introduction
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122
cf4e5c6e 123During the development of the Linux/ppc64 kernel, and more
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124specifically, the addition of new platform types outside of the old
125IBM pSeries/iSeries pair, it was decided to enforce some strict rules
126regarding the kernel entry and bootloader <-> kernel interfaces, in
127order to avoid the degeneration that had become the ppc32 kernel entry
128point and the way a new platform should be added to the kernel. The
129legacy iSeries platform breaks those rules as it predates this scheme,
130but no new board support will be accepted in the main tree that
475fc7c0 131doesn't follow them properly. In addition, since the advent of the
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132arch/powerpc merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64, new 32-bit
133platforms and 32-bit platforms which move into arch/powerpc will be
134required to use these rules as well.
135
136The main requirement that will be defined in more detail below is
137the presence of a device-tree whose format is defined after Open
138Firmware specification. However, in order to make life easier
139to embedded board vendors, the kernel doesn't require the device-tree
140to represent every device in the system and only requires some nodes
141and properties to be present. This will be described in detail in
142section III, but, for example, the kernel does not require you to
143create a node for every PCI device in the system. It is a requirement
144to have a node for PCI host bridges in order to provide interrupt
f65e51d7 145routing information and memory/IO ranges, among others. It is also
cf4e5c6e 146recommended to define nodes for on chip devices and other buses that
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147don't specifically fit in an existing OF specification. This creates a
148great flexibility in the way the kernel can then probe those and match
149drivers to device, without having to hard code all sorts of tables. It
150also makes it more flexible for board vendors to do minor hardware
151upgrades without significantly impacting the kernel code or cluttering
152it with special cases.
153
154
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1551) Entry point for arch/arm
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157
158 There is one single entry point to the kernel, at the start
159 of the kernel image. That entry point supports two calling
160 conventions. A summary of the interface is described here. A full
161 description of the boot requirements is documented in
162 Documentation/arm/Booting
163
164 a) ATAGS interface. Minimal information is passed from firmware
165 to the kernel with a tagged list of predefined parameters.
166
167 r0 : 0
168
169 r1 : Machine type number
170
171 r2 : Physical address of tagged list in system RAM
172
173 b) Entry with a flattened device-tree block. Firmware loads the
174 physical address of the flattened device tree block (dtb) into r2,
40e47125 175 r1 is not used, but it is considered good practice to use a valid
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176 machine number as described in Documentation/arm/Booting.
177
178 r0 : 0
179
180 r1 : Valid machine type number. When using a device tree,
181 a single machine type number will often be assigned to
182 represent a class or family of SoCs.
183
184 r2 : physical pointer to the device-tree block
185 (defined in chapter II) in RAM. Device tree can be located
186 anywhere in system RAM, but it should be aligned on a 64 bit
187 boundary.
188
189 The kernel will differentiate between ATAGS and device tree booting by
190 reading the memory pointed to by r2 and looking for either the flattened
191 device tree block magic value (0xd00dfeed) or the ATAG_CORE value at
192 offset 0x4 from r2 (0x54410001).
193
1942) Entry point for arch/powerpc
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196
cf4e5c6e 197 There is one single entry point to the kernel, at the start
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198 of the kernel image. That entry point supports two calling
199 conventions:
200
201 a) Boot from Open Firmware. If your firmware is compatible
202 with Open Firmware (IEEE 1275) or provides an OF compatible
203 client interface API (support for "interpret" callback of
204 forth words isn't required), you can enter the kernel with:
205
206 r5 : OF callback pointer as defined by IEEE 1275
5dd60166 207 bindings to powerpc. Only the 32-bit client interface
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208 is currently supported
209
210 r3, r4 : address & length of an initrd if any or 0
211
212 The MMU is either on or off; the kernel will run the
213 trampoline located in arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c to
214 extract the device-tree and other information from open
215 firmware and build a flattened device-tree as described
216 in b). prom_init() will then re-enter the kernel using
217 the second method. This trampoline code runs in the
218 context of the firmware, which is supposed to handle all
219 exceptions during that time.
220
221 b) Direct entry with a flattened device-tree block. This entry
222 point is called by a) after the OF trampoline and can also be
223 called directly by a bootloader that does not support the Open
224 Firmware client interface. It is also used by "kexec" to
225 implement "hot" booting of a new kernel from a previous
226 running one. This method is what I will describe in more
227 details in this document, as method a) is simply standard Open
228 Firmware, and thus should be implemented according to the
229 various standard documents defining it and its binding to the
230 PowerPC platform. The entry point definition then becomes:
231
232 r3 : physical pointer to the device-tree block
233 (defined in chapter II) in RAM
234
235 r4 : physical pointer to the kernel itself. This is
236 used by the assembly code to properly disable the MMU
237 in case you are entering the kernel with MMU enabled
238 and a non-1:1 mapping.
239
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242 Note about SMP entry: Either your firmware puts your other
243 CPUs in some sleep loop or spin loop in ROM where you can get
244 them out via a soft reset or some other means, in which case
245 you don't need to care, or you'll have to enter the kernel
246 with all CPUs. The way to do that with method b) will be
247 described in a later revision of this document.
248
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249 Board supports (platforms) are not exclusive config options. An
250 arbitrary set of board supports can be built in a single kernel
251 image. The kernel will "know" what set of functions to use for a
252 given platform based on the content of the device-tree. Thus, you
253 should:
254
255 a) add your platform support as a _boolean_ option in
256 arch/powerpc/Kconfig, following the example of PPC_PSERIES,
257 PPC_PMAC and PPC_MAPLE. The later is probably a good
258 example of a board support to start from.
259
260 b) create your main platform file as
261 "arch/powerpc/platforms/myplatform/myboard_setup.c" and add it
262 to the Makefile under the condition of your CONFIG_
263 option. This file will define a structure of type "ppc_md"
264 containing the various callbacks that the generic code will
265 use to get to your platform specific code
266
cf4e5c6e 267 A kernel image may support multiple platforms, but only if the
5dd60166 268 platforms feature the same core architecture. A single kernel build
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269 cannot support both configurations with Book E and configurations
270 with classic Powerpc architectures.
271
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274
275 There is one single 32bit entry point to the kernel at code32_start,
276 the decompressor (the real mode entry point goes to the same 32bit
277 entry point once it switched into protected mode). That entry point
278 supports one calling convention which is documented in
279 Documentation/x86/boot.txt
280 The physical pointer to the device-tree block (defined in chapter II)
281 is passed via setup_data which requires at least boot protocol 2.09.
282 The type filed is defined as
283
284 #define SETUP_DTB 2
285
286 This device-tree is used as an extension to the "boot page". As such it
287 does not parse / consider data which is already covered by the boot
288 page. This includes memory size, reserved ranges, command line arguments
289 or initrd address. It simply holds information which can not be retrieved
290 otherwise like interrupt routing or a list of devices behind an I2C bus.
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293----------------------------------
294
295 Some bootloaders only support a single entry point, at the start of the
296 kernel image. Other bootloaders will jump to the ELF start address.
297 Both schemes are supported; CONFIG_BOOT_RAW=y and CONFIG_NO_EXCEPT_FILL=y,
298 so the first instruction immediately jumps to kernel_entry().
299
300 Similar to the arch/arm case (b), a DT-aware bootloader is expected to
301 set up the following registers:
302
303 a0 : 0
304
305 a1 : 0xffffffff
306
307 a2 : Physical pointer to the device tree block (defined in chapter
308 II) in RAM. The device tree can be located anywhere in the first
309 512MB of the physical address space (0x00000000 - 0x1fffffff),
310 aligned on a 64 bit boundary.
311
312 Legacy bootloaders do not use this convention, and they do not pass in a
313 DT block. In this case, Linux will look for a builtin DTB, selected via
314 CONFIG_DT_*.
315
316 This convention is defined for 32-bit systems only, as there are not
317 currently any 64-bit BMIPS implementations.
318
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319II - The DT block format
320========================
321
322
323This chapter defines the actual format of the flattened device-tree
324passed to the kernel. The actual content of it and kernel requirements
325are described later. You can find example of code manipulating that
326format in various places, including arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
327which will generate a flattened device-tree from the Open Firmware
328representation, or the fs2dt utility which is part of the kexec tools
329which will generate one from a filesystem representation. It is
330expected that a bootloader like uboot provides a bit more support,
331that will be discussed later as well.
332
333Note: The block has to be in main memory. It has to be accessible in
334both real mode and virtual mode with no mapping other than main
335memory. If you are writing a simple flash bootloader, it should copy
336the block to RAM before passing it to the kernel.
337
338
3391) Header
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341
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342 The kernel is passed the physical address pointing to an area of memory
343 that is roughly described in include/linux/of_fdt.h by the structure
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344 boot_param_header:
345
346struct boot_param_header {
347 u32 magic; /* magic word OF_DT_HEADER */
348 u32 totalsize; /* total size of DT block */
349 u32 off_dt_struct; /* offset to structure */
350 u32 off_dt_strings; /* offset to strings */
351 u32 off_mem_rsvmap; /* offset to memory reserve map
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353 u32 version; /* format version */
354 u32 last_comp_version; /* last compatible version */
355
356 /* version 2 fields below */
357 u32 boot_cpuid_phys; /* Which physical CPU id we're
358 booting on */
359 /* version 3 fields below */
360 u32 size_dt_strings; /* size of the strings block */
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362 /* version 17 fields below */
363 u32 size_dt_struct; /* size of the DT structure block */
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365
366 Along with the constants:
367
368/* Definitions used by the flattened device tree */
369#define OF_DT_HEADER 0xd00dfeed /* 4: version,
370 4: total size */
371#define OF_DT_BEGIN_NODE 0x1 /* Start node: full name
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373#define OF_DT_END_NODE 0x2 /* End node */
374#define OF_DT_PROP 0x3 /* Property: name off,
375 size, content */
376#define OF_DT_END 0x9
377
378 All values in this header are in big endian format, the various
379 fields in this header are defined more precisely below. All
380 "offset" values are in bytes from the start of the header; that is
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382
383 - magic
384
385 This is a magic value that "marks" the beginning of the
386 device-tree block header. It contains the value 0xd00dfeed and is
387 defined by the constant OF_DT_HEADER
388
389 - totalsize
390
391 This is the total size of the DT block including the header. The
392 "DT" block should enclose all data structures defined in this
393 chapter (who are pointed to by offsets in this header). That is,
394 the device-tree structure, strings, and the memory reserve map.
395
396 - off_dt_struct
397
398 This is an offset from the beginning of the header to the start
399 of the "structure" part the device tree. (see 2) device tree)
400
401 - off_dt_strings
402
403 This is an offset from the beginning of the header to the start
404 of the "strings" part of the device-tree
405
406 - off_mem_rsvmap
407
408 This is an offset from the beginning of the header to the start
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411 list is terminated by an entry of size 0. This map provides the
412 kernel with a list of physical memory areas that are "reserved"
413 and thus not to be used for memory allocations, especially during
414 early initialization. The kernel needs to allocate memory during
415 boot for things like un-flattening the device-tree, allocating an
416 MMU hash table, etc... Those allocations must be done in such a
417 way to avoid overriding critical things like, on Open Firmware
418 capable machines, the RTAS instance, or on some pSeries, the TCE
419 tables used for the iommu. Typically, the reserve map should
420 contain _at least_ this DT block itself (header,total_size). If
421 you are passing an initrd to the kernel, you should reserve it as
422 well. You do not need to reserve the kernel image itself. The map
5dd60166 423 should be 64-bit aligned.
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425 - version
426
427 This is the version of this structure. Version 1 stops
428 here. Version 2 adds an additional field boot_cpuid_phys.
429 Version 3 adds the size of the strings block, allowing the kernel
430 to reallocate it easily at boot and free up the unused flattened
431 structure after expansion. Version 16 introduces a new more
432 "compact" format for the tree itself that is however not backward
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433 compatible. Version 17 adds an additional field, size_dt_struct,
434 allowing it to be reallocated or moved more easily (this is
435 particularly useful for bootloaders which need to make
436 adjustments to a device tree based on probed information). You
437 should always generate a structure of the highest version defined
438 at the time of your implementation. Currently that is version 17,
439 unless you explicitly aim at being backward compatible.
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441 - last_comp_version
442
443 Last compatible version. This indicates down to what version of
444 the DT block you are backward compatible. For example, version 2
445 is backward compatible with version 1 (that is, a kernel build
446 for version 1 will be able to boot with a version 2 format). You
447 should put a 1 in this field if you generate a device tree of
0e0293c8 448 version 1 to 3, or 16 if you generate a tree of version 16 or 17
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449 using the new unit name format.
450
451 - boot_cpuid_phys
452
453 This field only exist on version 2 headers. It indicate which
454 physical CPU ID is calling the kernel entry point. This is used,
455 among others, by kexec. If you are on an SMP system, this value
456 should match the content of the "reg" property of the CPU node in
457 the device-tree corresponding to the CPU calling the kernel entry
f65e51d7 458 point (see further chapters for more information on the required
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459 device-tree contents)
460
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461 - size_dt_strings
462
463 This field only exists on version 3 and later headers. It
464 gives the size of the "strings" section of the device tree (which
465 starts at the offset given by off_dt_strings).
466
467 - size_dt_struct
468
469 This field only exists on version 17 and later headers. It gives
470 the size of the "structure" section of the device tree (which
471 starts at the offset given by off_dt_struct).
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473 So the typical layout of a DT block (though the various parts don't
474 need to be in that order) looks like this (addresses go from top to
475 bottom):
476
477
478 ------------------------------
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480 ------------------------------
481 | (alignment gap) (*) |
482 ------------------------------
483 | memory reserve map |
484 ------------------------------
485 | (alignment gap) |
486 ------------------------------
487 | |
488 | device-tree structure |
489 | |
490 ------------------------------
491 | (alignment gap) |
492 ------------------------------
493 | |
494 | device-tree strings |
495 | |
496 -----> ------------------------------
497 |
498 |
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501 (*) The alignment gaps are not necessarily present; their presence
502 and size are dependent on the various alignment requirements of
503 the individual data blocks.
504
505
5062) Device tree generalities
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508
509This device-tree itself is separated in two different blocks, a
510structure block and a strings block. Both need to be aligned to a 4
511byte boundary.
512
513First, let's quickly describe the device-tree concept before detailing
514the storage format. This chapter does _not_ describe the detail of the
515required types of nodes & properties for the kernel, this is done
516later in chapter III.
517
518The device-tree layout is strongly inherited from the definition of
519the Open Firmware IEEE 1275 device-tree. It's basically a tree of
520nodes, each node having two or more named properties. A property can
521have a value or not.
522
523It is a tree, so each node has one and only one parent except for the
524root node who has no parent.
525
526A node has 2 names. The actual node name is generally contained in a
527property of type "name" in the node property list whose value is a
528zero terminated string and is mandatory for version 1 to 3 of the
0e0293c8 529format definition (as it is in Open Firmware). Version 16 makes it
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530optional as it can generate it from the unit name defined below.
531
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535specific to the bus type the node sits on.
536
537The unit name doesn't exist as a property per-se but is included in
538the device-tree structure. It is typically used to represent "path" in
539the device-tree. More details about the actual format of these will be
540below.
541
cf4e5c6e 542The kernel generic code does not make any formal use of the
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543unit address (though some board support code may do) so the only real
544requirement here for the unit address is to ensure uniqueness of
545the node unit name at a given level of the tree. Nodes with no notion
546of address and no possible sibling of the same name (like /memory or
547/cpus) may omit the unit address in the context of this specification,
548or use the "@0" default unit address. The unit name is used to define
549a node "full path", which is the concatenation of all parent node
550unit names separated with "/".
551
552The root node doesn't have a defined name, and isn't required to have
553a name property either if you are using version 3 or earlier of the
554format. It also has no unit address (no @ symbol followed by a unit
555address). The root node unit name is thus an empty string. The full
556path to the root node is "/".
557
558Every node which actually represents an actual device (that is, a node
559which isn't only a virtual "container" for more nodes, like "/cpus"
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560is) is also required to have a "compatible" property indicating the
561specific hardware and an optional list of devices it is fully
562backwards compatible with.
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564Finally, every node that can be referenced from a property in another
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565node is required to have either a "phandle" or a "linux,phandle"
566property. Real Open Firmware implementations provide a unique
567"phandle" value for every node that the "prom_init()" trampoline code
568turns into "linux,phandle" properties. However, this is made optional
569if the flattened device tree is used directly. An example of a node
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570referencing another node via "phandle" is when laying out the
571interrupt tree which will be described in a further version of this
572document.
573
cf4e5c6e 574The "phandle" property is a 32-bit value that uniquely
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575identifies a node. You are free to use whatever values or system of
576values, internal pointers, or whatever to generate these, the only
577requirement is that every node for which you provide that property has
578a unique value for it.
579
580Here is an example of a simple device-tree. In this example, an "o"
581designates a node followed by the node unit name. Properties are
582presented with their name followed by their content. "content"
583represents an ASCII string (zero terminated) value, while <content>
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585latter prefixed 0x). The various nodes in this example will be
586discussed in a later chapter. At this point, it is only meant to give
587you a idea of what a device-tree looks like. I have purposefully kept
588the "name" and "linux,phandle" properties which aren't necessary in
589order to give you a better idea of what the tree looks like in
590practice.
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592 / o device-tree
593 |- name = "device-tree"
594 |- model = "MyBoardName"
595 |- compatible = "MyBoardFamilyName"
596 |- #address-cells = <2>
597 |- #size-cells = <2>
598 |- linux,phandle = <0>
599 |
600 o cpus
601 | | - name = "cpus"
602 | | - linux,phandle = <1>
603 | | - #address-cells = <1>
604 | | - #size-cells = <0>
605 | |
606 | o PowerPC,970@0
607 | |- name = "PowerPC,970"
608 | |- device_type = "cpu"
609 | |- reg = <0>
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613 |
614 o memory@0
615 | |- name = "memory"
616 | |- device_type = "memory"
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619 |
620 o chosen
621 |- name = "chosen"
622 |- bootargs = "root=/dev/sda2"
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624
625This tree is almost a minimal tree. It pretty much contains the
626minimal set of required nodes and properties to boot a linux kernel;
f65e51d7 627that is, some basic model information at the root, the CPUs, and the
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628physical memory layout. It also includes misc information passed
629through /chosen, like in this example, the platform type (mandatory)
630and the kernel command line arguments (optional).
631
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633property without a value. All other properties have a value. The
634significance of the #address-cells and #size-cells properties will be
635explained in chapter IV which defines precisely the required nodes and
636properties and their content.
637
638
6393) Device tree "structure" block
640
641The structure of the device tree is a linearized tree structure. The
642"OF_DT_BEGIN_NODE" token starts a new node, and the "OF_DT_END_NODE"
643ends that node definition. Child nodes are simply defined before
644"OF_DT_END_NODE" (that is nodes within the node). A 'token' is a 32
645bit value. The tree has to be "finished" with a OF_DT_END token
646
647Here's the basic structure of a single node:
648
649 * token OF_DT_BEGIN_NODE (that is 0x00000001)
650 * for version 1 to 3, this is the node full path as a zero
651 terminated string, starting with "/". For version 16 and later,
652 this is the node unit name only (or an empty string for the
653 root node)
654 * [align gap to next 4 bytes boundary]
655 * for each property:
656 * token OF_DT_PROP (that is 0x00000003)
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658 value)
659 * 32-bit value of offset in string block of property name
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661 * [align gap to next 4 bytes boundary]
662 * [child nodes if any]
663 * token OF_DT_END_NODE (that is 0x00000002)
664
5dd60166 665So the node content can be summarized as a start token, a full path,
53cb4726 666a list of properties, a list of child nodes, and an end token. Every
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668
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670a particular node MUST precede any subnode definitions for that node.
671Although the structure would not be ambiguous if properties and
672subnodes were intermingled, the kernel parser requires that the
673properties come first (up until at least 2.6.22). Any tools
674manipulating a flattened tree must take care to preserve this
675constraint.
676
53cb4726 6774) Device tree "strings" block
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679In order to save space, property names, which are generally redundant,
680are stored separately in the "strings" block. This block is simply the
681whole bunch of zero terminated strings for all property names
682concatenated together. The device-tree property definitions in the
683structure block will contain offset values from the beginning of the
684strings block.
685
686
687III - Required content of the device tree
688=========================================
689
690WARNING: All "linux,*" properties defined in this document apply only
691to a flattened device-tree. If your platform uses a real
692implementation of Open Firmware or an implementation compatible with
693the Open Firmware client interface, those properties will be created
694by the trampoline code in the kernel's prom_init() file. For example,
695that's where you'll have to add code to detect your board model and
a2ffd275 696set the platform number. However, when using the flattened device-tree
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697entry point, there is no prom_init() pass, and thus you have to
698provide those properties yourself.
699
700
7011) Note about cells and address representation
702----------------------------------------------
703
704The general rule is documented in the various Open Firmware
5dd60166 705documentations. If you choose to describe a bus with the device-tree
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706and there exist an OF bus binding, then you should follow the
707specification. However, the kernel does not require every single
708device or bus to be described by the device tree.
709
710In general, the format of an address for a device is defined by the
711parent bus type, based on the #address-cells and #size-cells
5b14e5f9 712properties. Note that the parent's parent definitions of #address-cells
d9195881 713and #size-cells are not inherited so every node with children must specify
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715addresses format for devices directly mapped on the processor bus.
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717Those 2 properties define 'cells' for representing an address and a
5dd60166 718size. A "cell" is a 32-bit number. For example, if both contain 2
c125a183 719like the example tree given above, then an address and a size are both
5dd60166 720composed of 2 cells, and each is a 64-bit number (cells are
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722is the way Apple firmware defines them, with 2 cells for an address
723and one cell for a size. Most 32-bit implementations should define
724#address-cells and #size-cells to 1, which represents a 32-bit value.
725Some 32-bit processors allow for physical addresses greater than 32
726bits; these processors should define #address-cells as 2.
727
728"reg" properties are always a tuple of the type "address size" where
729the number of cells of address and size is specified by the bus
730#address-cells and #size-cells. When a bus supports various address
731spaces and other flags relative to a given address allocation (like
732prefetchable, etc...) those flags are usually added to the top level
733bits of the physical address. For example, a PCI physical address is
734made of 3 cells, the bottom two containing the actual address itself
735while the top cell contains address space indication, flags, and pci
736bus & device numbers.
737
cf4e5c6e 738For buses that support dynamic allocation, it's the accepted practice
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739to then not provide the address in "reg" (keep it 0) though while
740providing a flag indicating the address is dynamically allocated, and
741then, to provide a separate "assigned-addresses" property that
742contains the fully allocated addresses. See the PCI OF bindings for
743details.
744
745In general, a simple bus with no address space bits and no dynamic
746allocation is preferred if it reflects your hardware, as the existing
747kernel address parsing functions will work out of the box. If you
748define a bus type with a more complex address format, including things
749like address space bits, you'll have to add a bus translator to the
750prom_parse.c file of the recent kernels for your bus type.
751
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753non-0) within a given bus. In order to translate addresses upward
5dd60166 754(that is into parent bus addresses, and possibly into CPU physical
cf4e5c6e 755addresses), all buses must contain a "ranges" property. If the
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758parent bus. The format of the "ranges" property for a bus is a list
759of:
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761 bus address, parent bus address, size
762
763"bus address" is in the format of the bus this bus node is defining,
764that is, for a PCI bridge, it would be a PCI address. Thus, (bus
765address, size) defines a range of addresses for child devices. "parent
766bus address" is in the format of the parent bus of this bus. For
767example, for a PCI host controller, that would be a CPU address. For a
768PCI<->ISA bridge, that would be a PCI address. It defines the base
769address in the parent bus where the beginning of that range is mapped.
770
cf4e5c6e 771For new 64-bit board support, I recommend either the 2/2 format or
c125a183 772Apple's 2/1 format which is slightly more compact since sizes usually
cf4e5c6e 773fit in a single 32-bit word. New 32-bit board support should use a
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775than 32-bits, in which case a 2/1 format is recommended.
776
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778registers are visible on the parent bus using an identity mapping
779translation. In other words, the parent bus address space is the same
780as the child bus address space.
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7822) Note about "compatible" properties
783-------------------------------------
784
785These properties are optional, but recommended in devices and the root
786node. The format of a "compatible" property is a list of concatenated
787zero terminated strings. They allow a device to express its
788compatibility with a family of similar devices, in some cases,
789allowing a single driver to match against several devices regardless
790of their actual names.
791
7923) Note about "name" properties
793-------------------------------
794
795While earlier users of Open Firmware like OldWorld macintoshes tended
796to use the actual device name for the "name" property, it's nowadays
797considered a good practice to use a name that is closer to the device
cf4e5c6e 798class (often equal to device_type). For example, nowadays, Ethernet
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799controllers are named "ethernet", an additional "model" property
800defining precisely the chip type/model, and "compatible" property
801defining the family in case a single driver can driver more than one
802of these chips. However, the kernel doesn't generally put any
803restriction on the "name" property; it is simply considered good
804practice to follow the standard and its evolutions as closely as
805possible.
806
807Note also that the new format version 16 makes the "name" property
808optional. If it's absent for a node, then the node's unit name is then
809used to reconstruct the name. That is, the part of the unit name
810before the "@" sign is used (or the entire unit name if no "@" sign
811is present).
812
8134) Note about node and property names and character set
814-------------------------------------------------------
815
cf4e5c6e 816While Open Firmware provides more flexible usage of 8859-1, this
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817specification enforces more strict rules. Nodes and properties should
818be comprised only of ASCII characters 'a' to 'z', '0' to
819'9', ',', '.', '_', '+', '#', '?', and '-'. Node names additionally
820allow uppercase characters 'A' to 'Z' (property names should be
821lowercase. The fact that vendors like Apple don't respect this rule is
822irrelevant here). Additionally, node and property names should always
823begin with a character in the range 'a' to 'z' (or 'A' to 'Z' for node
824names).
825
826The maximum number of characters for both nodes and property names
827is 31. In the case of node names, this is only the leftmost part of
828a unit name (the pure "name" property), it doesn't include the unit
829address which can extend beyond that limit.
830
831
8325) Required nodes and properties
833--------------------------------
834 These are all that are currently required. However, it is strongly
835 recommended that you expose PCI host bridges as documented in the
cf4e5c6e 836 PCI binding to Open Firmware, and your interrupt tree as documented
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837 in OF interrupt tree specification.
838
839 a) The root node
840
841 The root node requires some properties to be present:
842
843 - model : this is your board name/model
844 - #address-cells : address representation for "root" devices
845 - #size-cells: the size representation for "root" devices
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847 for example, if you have 2 board models with a similar layout,
848 that typically get driven by the same platform code in the
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850 compatible property followed by an entry that represents the SoC
851 model.
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853 The root node is also generally where you add additional properties
854 specific to your board like the serial number if any, that sort of
6c28f2c0 855 thing. It is recommended that if you add any "custom" property whose
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856 name may clash with standard defined ones, you prefix them with your
857 vendor name and a comma.
858
859 b) The /cpus node
860
861 This node is the parent of all individual CPU nodes. It doesn't
862 have any specific requirements, though it's generally good practice
863 to have at least:
864
865 #address-cells = <00000001>
866 #size-cells = <00000000>
867
868 This defines that the "address" for a CPU is a single cell, and has
869 no meaningful size. This is not necessary but the kernel will assume
870 that format when reading the "reg" properties of a CPU node, see
871 below
872
873 c) The /cpus/* nodes
874
875 So under /cpus, you are supposed to create a node for every CPU on
876 the machine. There is no specific restriction on the name of the
cf4e5c6e 877 CPU, though it's common to call it <architecture>,<core>. For
c125a183 878 example, Apple uses PowerPC,G5 while IBM uses PowerPC,970FX.
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880 better to simply use 'cpu' for each cpu node and use the compatible
881 property to identify the specific cpu core.
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883 Required properties:
884
885 - device_type : has to be "cpu"
5dd60166 886 - reg : This is the physical CPU number, it's a single 32-bit cell
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888 unit name in the full path. For example, with 2 CPUs, you would
889 have the full path:
890 /cpus/PowerPC,970FX@0
891 /cpus/PowerPC,970FX@1
892 (unit addresses do not require leading zeroes)
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894 - i-cache-block-size : one cell, L1 instruction cache block size in
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896 - d-cache-size : one cell, size of L1 data cache in bytes
897 - i-cache-size : one cell, size of L1 instruction cache in bytes
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900instructions operate. Historically, this document used the cache
901"line" size here which is incorrect. The kernel will prefer the cache
902block size and will fallback to cache line size for backward
903compatibility.
904
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906
907 - timebase-frequency : a cell indicating the frequency of the
908 timebase in Hz. This is not directly used by the generic code,
909 but you are welcome to copy/paste the pSeries code for setting
910 the kernel timebase/decrementer calibration based on this
911 value.
912 - clock-frequency : a cell indicating the CPU core clock frequency
5dd60166 913 in Hz. A new property will be defined for 64-bit values, but if
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915 for the above, the common code doesn't use that property, but
916 you are welcome to re-use the pSeries or Maple one. A future
917 kernel version might provide a common function for this.
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919 if different from the block size
920 - i-cache-line-size : one cell, L1 instruction cache line size in
921 bytes if different from the block size
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923 You are welcome to add any property you find relevant to your board,
924 like some information about the mechanism used to soft-reset the
925 CPUs. For example, Apple puts the GPIO number for CPU soft reset
926 lines in there as a "soft-reset" property since they start secondary
927 CPUs by soft-resetting them.
928
929
930 d) the /memory node(s)
931
932 To define the physical memory layout of your board, you should
933 create one or more memory node(s). You can either create a single
934 node with all memory ranges in its reg property, or you can create
935 several nodes, as you wish. The unit address (@ part) used for the
936 full path is the address of the first range of memory defined by a
937 given node. If you use a single memory node, this will typically be
938 @0.
939
940 Required properties:
941
942 - device_type : has to be "memory"
943 - reg : This property contains all the physical memory ranges of
944 your board. It's a list of addresses/sizes concatenated
945 together, with the number of cells of each defined by the
946 #address-cells and #size-cells of the root node. For example,
6c28f2c0 947 with both of these properties being 2 like in the example given
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949 have a "reg" property here that looks like:
950
951 00000000 00000000 00000000 80000000
952 00000001 00000000 00000001 00000000
953
954 That is a range starting at 0 of 0x80000000 bytes and a range
955 starting at 0x100000000 and of 0x100000000 bytes. You can see
956 that there is no memory covering the IO hole between 2Gb and
957 4Gb. Some vendors prefer splitting those ranges into smaller
958 segments, but the kernel doesn't care.
959
960 e) The /chosen node
961
cf4e5c6e 962 This node is a bit "special". Normally, that's where Open Firmware
c125a183 963 puts some variable environment information, like the arguments, or
d1bff9ed 964 the default input/output devices.
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966 This specification makes a few of these mandatory, but also defines
967 some linux-specific properties that would be normally constructed by
968 the prom_init() trampoline when booting with an OF client interface,
969 but that you have to provide yourself when using the flattened format.
970
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972
973 - bootargs : This zero-terminated string is passed as the kernel
974 command line
975 - linux,stdout-path : This is the full path to your standard
976 console device if any. Typically, if you have serial devices on
977 your board, you may want to put the full path to the one set as
978 the default console in the firmware here, for the kernel to pick
cf4e5c6e 979 it up as its own default console.
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981 Note that u-boot creates and fills in the chosen node for platforms
982 that use it.
983
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985 under /chosen called interrupt-controller which had a phandle value
986 that pointed to the main interrupt controller)
987
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989
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991 present if the processor is a SoC. The top-level soc node contains
992 information that is global to all devices on the SoC. The node name
993 should contain a unit address for the SoC, which is the base address
994 of the memory-mapped register set for the SoC. The name of an SoC
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996 represent the part number for the soc. For example, the MPC8540's
997 soc node would be called "soc8540".
998
999 Required properties:
1000
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1003 - bus-frequency: Contains the bus frequency for the SoC node.
7d4b95ae 1004 Typically, the value of this field is filled in by the boot
efcc2da3 1005 loader.
cf4e5c6e 1006 - compatible : Exact model of the SoC
7d4b95ae 1007
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1009 Recommended properties:
1010
1011 - reg : This property defines the address and size of the
1012 memory-mapped registers that are used for the SOC node itself.
1013 It does not include the child device registers - these will be
1014 defined inside each child node. The address specified in the
1015 "reg" property should match the unit address of the SOC node.
1016 - #address-cells : Address representation for "soc" devices. The
1017 format of this field may vary depending on whether or not the
1018 device registers are memory mapped. For memory mapped
1019 registers, this field represents the number of cells needed to
1020 represent the address of the registers. For SOCs that do not
1021 use MMIO, a special address format should be defined that
1022 contains enough cells to represent the required information.
1023 See 1) above for more details on defining #address-cells.
1024 - #size-cells : Size representation for "soc" devices
1025 - #interrupt-cells : Defines the width of cells used to represent
1026 interrupts. Typically this value is <2>, which includes a
1027 32-bit number that represents the interrupt number, and a
1028 32-bit number that represents the interrupt sense and level.
1029 This field is only needed if the SOC contains an interrupt
1030 controller.
1031
1032 The SOC node may contain child nodes for each SOC device that the
1033 platform uses. Nodes should not be created for devices which exist
1034 on the SOC but are not used by a particular platform. See chapter VI
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1037 Example SOC node for the MPC8540:
1038
1039 soc8540@e0000000 {
1040 #address-cells = <1>;
1041 #size-cells = <1>;
1042 #interrupt-cells = <2>;
1043 device_type = "soc";
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1045 reg = <0xe0000000 0x00003000>;
7d4b95ae 1046 bus-frequency = <0>;
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1048
1049
1050
1051IV - "dtc", the device tree compiler
1052====================================
1053
1054
1055dtc source code can be found at
0ea6e611 1056<http://git.jdl.com/gitweb/?p=dtc.git>
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1058WARNING: This version is still in early development stage; the
1059resulting device-tree "blobs" have not yet been validated with the
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1062it up) among others. The error handling needs work, bugs are lurking,
1063etc...
1064
1065dtc basically takes a device-tree in a given format and outputs a
1066device-tree in another format. The currently supported formats are:
1067
1068 Input formats:
1069 -------------
1070
1071 - "dtb": "blob" format, that is a flattened device-tree block
1072 with
1073 header all in a binary blob.
1074 - "dts": "source" format. This is a text file containing a
1075 "source" for a device-tree. The format is defined later in this
1076 chapter.
1077 - "fs" format. This is a representation equivalent to the
1078 output of /proc/device-tree, that is nodes are directories and
1079 properties are files
1080
1081 Output formats:
1082 ---------------
1083
1084 - "dtb": "blob" format
1085 - "dts": "source" format
1086 - "asm": assembly language file. This is a file that can be
1087 sourced by gas to generate a device-tree "blob". That file can
1088 then simply be added to your Makefile. Additionally, the
6c28f2c0 1089 assembly file exports some symbols that can be used.
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1091
1092The syntax of the dtc tool is
1093
1094 dtc [-I <input-format>] [-O <output-format>]
1095 [-o output-filename] [-V output_version] input_filename
1096
1097
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1100currently version 3 but that may change in the future to version 16.
1101
1102Additionally, dtc performs various sanity checks on the tree, like the
6c28f2c0 1103uniqueness of linux, phandle properties, validity of strings, etc...
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1105The format of the .dts "source" file is "C" like, supports C and C++
6c28f2c0 1106style comments.
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1108/ {
1109}
1110
1111The above is the "device-tree" definition. It's the only statement
1112supported currently at the toplevel.
1113
1114/ {
1115 property1 = "string_value"; /* define a property containing a 0
1116 * terminated string
1117 */
1118
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5dd60166 1120 * numerical 32-bit value (hexadecimal)
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1122
36793623 1123 property3 = <0x12345678 0x12345678 0xdeadbeef>;
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1127 */
36793623 1128 property4 = [0x0a 0x0b 0x0c 0x0d 0xde 0xea 0xad 0xbe 0xef];
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1130 * an arbitrary array of bytes
1131 */
1132
b595076a 1133 childnode@address { /* define a child node named "childnode"
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1135 * address"
1136 */
1137
1138 childprop = "hello\n"; /* define a property "childprop" of
1139 * childnode (in this case, a string)
1140 */
1141 };
1142};
1143
1144Nodes can contain other nodes etc... thus defining the hierarchical
1145structure of the tree.
1146
1147Strings support common escape sequences from C: "\n", "\t", "\r",
1148"\(octal value)", "\x(hex value)".
1149
1150It is also suggested that you pipe your source file through cpp (gcc
1151preprocessor) so you can use #include's, #define for constants, etc...
1152
1153Finally, various options are planned but not yet implemented, like
1154automatic generation of phandles, labels (exported to the asm file so
1155you can point to a property content and change it easily from whatever
1156you link the device-tree with), label or path instead of numeric value
1157in some cells to "point" to a node (replaced by a phandle at compile
1158time), export of reserve map address to the asm file, ability to
1159specify reserve map content at compile time, etc...
1160
1161We may provide a .h include file with common definitions of that
1162proves useful for some properties (like building PCI properties or
1163interrupt maps) though it may be better to add a notion of struct
1164definitions to the compiler...
1165
1166
1167V - Recommendations for a bootloader
1168====================================
1169
1170
1171Here are some various ideas/recommendations that have been proposed
1172while all this has been defined and implemented.
1173
1174 - The bootloader may want to be able to use the device-tree itself
1175 and may want to manipulate it (to add/edit some properties,
1176 like physical memory size or kernel arguments). At this point, 2
1177 choices can be made. Either the bootloader works directly on the
1178 flattened format, or the bootloader has its own internal tree
1179 representation with pointers (similar to the kernel one) and
1180 re-flattens the tree when booting the kernel. The former is a bit
1181 more difficult to edit/modify, the later requires probably a bit
1182 more code to handle the tree structure. Note that the structure
1183 format has been designed so it's relatively easy to "insert"
1184 properties or nodes or delete them by just memmoving things
1185 around. It contains no internal offsets or pointers for this
1186 purpose.
1187
d6bc8ac9 1188 - An example of code for iterating nodes & retrieving properties
c125a183 1189 directly from the flattened tree format can be found in the kernel
cf4e5c6e 1190 file drivers/of/fdt.c. Look at the of_scan_flat_dt() function,
d6bc8ac9 1191 its usage in early_init_devtree(), and the corresponding various
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1192 early_init_dt_scan_*() callbacks. That code can be re-used in a
1193 GPL bootloader, and as the author of that code, I would be happy
5dd60166 1194 to discuss possible free licensing to any vendor who wishes to
c125a183 1195 integrate all or part of this code into a non-GPL bootloader.
cf4e5c6e 1196 (reference needed; who is 'I' here? ---gcl Jan 31, 2011)
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1198
1199
1200VI - System-on-a-chip devices and nodes
1201=======================================
1202
1203Many companies are now starting to develop system-on-a-chip
5dd60166 1204processors, where the processor core (CPU) and many peripheral devices
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1205exist on a single piece of silicon. For these SOCs, an SOC node
1206should be used that defines child nodes for the devices that make
1207up the SOC. While platforms are not required to use this model in
1208order to boot the kernel, it is highly encouraged that all SOC
1209implementations define as complete a flat-device-tree as possible to
1210describe the devices on the SOC. This will allow for the
1211genericization of much of the kernel code.
1212
1213
12141) Defining child nodes of an SOC
1215---------------------------------
1216
1217Each device that is part of an SOC may have its own node entry inside
1218the SOC node. For each device that is included in the SOC, the unit
1219address property represents the address offset for this device's
1220memory-mapped registers in the parent's address space. The parent's
1221address space is defined by the "ranges" property in the top-level soc
1222node. The "reg" property for each node that exists directly under the
1223SOC node should contain the address mapping from the child address space
1224to the parent SOC address space and the size of the device's
1225memory-mapped register file.
1226
1227For many devices that may exist inside an SOC, there are predefined
1228specifications for the format of the device tree node. All SOC child
1229nodes should follow these specifications, except where noted in this
1230document.
1231
1232See appendix A for an example partial SOC node definition for the
1233MPC8540.
1234
1235
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1238
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1239Currently, there are many devices on SoCs that do not have a standard
1240representation defined as part of the Open Firmware specifications,
1241mainly because the boards that contain these SoCs are not currently
1242booted using Open Firmware. Binding documentation for new devices
1243should be added to the Documentation/devicetree/bindings directory.
1244That directory will expand as device tree support is added to more and
1245more SoCs.
1246
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1249===================================================
1250
cf4e5c6e 1251The device tree represents the buses and devices of a hardware
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1252system in a form similar to the physical bus topology of the
1253hardware.
1254
1255In addition, a logical 'interrupt tree' exists which represents the
1256hierarchy and routing of interrupts in the hardware.
1257
1258The interrupt tree model is fully described in the
1259document "Open Firmware Recommended Practice: Interrupt
1260Mapping Version 0.9". The document is available at:
242260fb 1261<http://www.openfirmware.org/ofwg/practice/>
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12631) interrupts property
1264----------------------
1265
1266Devices that generate interrupts to a single interrupt controller
1267should use the conventional OF representation described in the
1268OF interrupt mapping documentation.
1269
1270Each device which generates interrupts must have an 'interrupt'
1271property. The interrupt property value is an arbitrary number of
1272of 'interrupt specifier' values which describe the interrupt or
1273interrupts for the device.
1274
1275The encoding of an interrupt specifier is determined by the
1276interrupt domain in which the device is located in the
1277interrupt tree. The root of an interrupt domain specifies in
1278its #interrupt-cells property the number of 32-bit cells
1279required to encode an interrupt specifier. See the OF interrupt
1280mapping documentation for a detailed description of domains.
1281
1282For example, the binding for the OpenPIC interrupt controller
1283specifies an #interrupt-cells value of 2 to encode the interrupt
1284number and level/sense information. All interrupt children in an
1285OpenPIC interrupt domain use 2 cells per interrupt in their interrupts
1286property.
1287
1288The PCI bus binding specifies a #interrupt-cell value of 1 to encode
1289which interrupt pin (INTA,INTB,INTC,INTD) is used.
1290
12912) interrupt-parent property
1292----------------------------
1293
1294The interrupt-parent property is specified to define an explicit
1295link between a device node and its interrupt parent in
1296the interrupt tree. The value of interrupt-parent is the
1297phandle of the parent node.
1298
a33f3224 1299If the interrupt-parent property is not defined for a node, its
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1300interrupt parent is assumed to be an ancestor in the node's
1301_device tree_ hierarchy.
1302
13033) OpenPIC Interrupt Controllers
1304--------------------------------
1305
1306OpenPIC interrupt controllers require 2 cells to encode
1307interrupt information. The first cell defines the interrupt
1308number. The second cell defines the sense and level
1309information.
1310
1311Sense and level information should be encoded as follows:
1312
1313 0 = low to high edge sensitive type enabled
1314 1 = active low level sensitive type enabled
1315 2 = active high level sensitive type enabled
1316 3 = high to low edge sensitive type enabled
1317
13184) ISA Interrupt Controllers
1319----------------------------
1320
1321ISA PIC interrupt controllers require 2 cells to encode
1322interrupt information. The first cell defines the interrupt
1323number. The second cell defines the sense and level
1324information.
1325
1326ISA PIC interrupt controllers should adhere to the ISA PIC
1327encodings listed below:
1328
1329 0 = active low level sensitive type enabled
1330 1 = active high level sensitive type enabled
1331 2 = high to low edge sensitive type enabled
1332 3 = low to high edge sensitive type enabled
1333
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1336
1337Devices on SOCs often have mechanisms for placing devices into low-power
1338states that are decoupled from the devices' own register blocks. Sometimes,
1339this information is more complicated than a cell-index property can
1340reasonably describe. Thus, each device controlled in such a manner
1341may contain a "sleep" property which describes these connections.
1342
1343The sleep property consists of one or more sleep resources, each of
1344which consists of a phandle to a sleep controller, followed by a
1345controller-specific sleep specifier of zero or more cells.
1346
1347The semantics of what type of low power modes are possible are defined
1348by the sleep controller. Some examples of the types of low power modes
1349that may be supported are:
1350
1351 - Dynamic: The device may be disabled or enabled at any time.
1352 - System Suspend: The device may request to be disabled or remain
1353 awake during system suspend, but will not be disabled until then.
1354 - Permanent: The device is disabled permanently (until the next hard
1355 reset).
1356
1357Some devices may share a clock domain with each other, such that they should
1358only be suspended when none of the devices are in use. Where reasonable,
1359such nodes should be placed on a virtual bus, where the bus has the sleep
1360property. If the clock domain is shared among devices that cannot be
1361reasonably grouped in this manner, then create a virtual sleep controller
1362(similar to an interrupt nexus, except that defining a standardized
1363sleep-map should wait until its necessity is demonstrated).
1364
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1366
1367Some devices may have DMA memory range shifted relatively to the beginning of
1368RAM, or even placed outside of kernel RAM. For example, the Keystone 2 SoC
1369worked in LPAE mode with 4G memory has:
1370- RAM range: [0x8 0000 0000, 0x8 FFFF FFFF]
1371- DMA range: [ 0x8000 0000, 0xFFFF FFFF]
1372and DMA range is aliased into first 2G of RAM in HW.
1373
1374In such cases, DMA addresses translation should be performed between CPU phys
1375and DMA addresses. The "dma-ranges" property is intended to be used
1376for describing the configuration of such system in DT.
1377
1378In addition, each DMA master device on the DMA bus may or may not support
1379coherent DMA operations. The "dma-coherent" property is intended to be used
1380for identifying devices supported coherent DMA operations in DT.
1381
1382* DMA Bus master
1383Optional property:
1384- dma-ranges: <prop-encoded-array> encoded as arbitrary number of triplets of
1385 (child-bus-address, parent-bus-address, length). Each triplet specified
1386 describes a contiguous DMA address range.
1387 The dma-ranges property is used to describe the direct memory access (DMA)
1388 structure of a memory-mapped bus whose device tree parent can be accessed
1389 from DMA operations originating from the bus. It provides a means of
1390 defining a mapping or translation between the physical address space of
1391 the bus and the physical address space of the parent of the bus.
1392 (for more information see ePAPR specification)
1393
1394* DMA Bus child
1395Optional property:
1396- dma-ranges: <empty> value. if present - It means that DMA addresses
1397 translation has to be enabled for this device.
1398- dma-coherent: Present if dma operations are coherent
1399
1400Example:
1401soc {
1402 compatible = "ti,keystone","simple-bus";
1403 ranges = <0x0 0x0 0x0 0xc0000000>;
1404 dma-ranges = <0x80000000 0x8 0x00000000 0x80000000>;
1405
1406 [...]
1407
1408 usb: usb@2680000 {
1409 compatible = "ti,keystone-dwc3";
1410
1411 [...]
1412 dma-coherent;
1413 };
1414};
1415
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1417========================================
1418
7e72063c 1419 soc@e0000000 {
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1420 #address-cells = <1>;
1421 #size-cells = <1>;
7e72063c 1422 compatible = "fsl,mpc8540-ccsr", "simple-bus";
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7e72063c 1424 ranges = <0x00000000 0xe0000000 0x00100000>
7d4b95ae 1425 bus-frequency = <0>;
7e72063c 1426 interrupt-parent = <&pic>;
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c125a183 1428 ethernet@24000 {
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1430 #size-cells = <1>;
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1431 device_type = "network";
1432 model = "TSEC";
2dff4177 1433 compatible = "gianfar", "simple-bus";
7e72063c 1434 reg = <0x24000 0x1000>;
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1436 interrupts = <0x29 2 0x30 2 0x34 2>;
7e72063c 1437 phy-handle = <&phy0>;
36793623 1438 sleep = <&pmc 0x00000080>;
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1440
1441 mdio@24520 {
7e72063c 1442 reg = <0x24520 0x20>;
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1444
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1446 interrupts = <5 1>;
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1449
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1451 interrupts = <5 1>;
2dff4177 1452 reg = <1>;
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1456 interrupts = <7 1>;
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1459 };
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1461
1462 ethernet@25000 {
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1463 device_type = "network";
1464 model = "TSEC";
1465 compatible = "gianfar";
7e72063c 1466 reg = <0x25000 0x1000>;
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1468 interrupts = <0x13 2 0x14 2 0x18 2>;
7e72063c 1469 phy-handle = <&phy1>;
36793623 1470 sleep = <&pmc 0x00000040>;
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1472
1473 ethernet@26000 {
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1475 model = "FEC";
1476 compatible = "gianfar";
7e72063c 1477 reg = <0x26000 0x1000>;
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1479 interrupts = <0x41 2>;
7e72063c 1480 phy-handle = <&phy3>;
36793623 1481 sleep = <&pmc 0x00000020>;
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1483
1484 serial@4500 {
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1486 #size-cells = <1>;
1487 compatible = "fsl,mpc8540-duart", "simple-bus";
36793623 1488 sleep = <&pmc 0x00000002>;
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1490
1491 serial@4500 {
1492 device_type = "serial";
1493 compatible = "ns16550";
7e72063c 1494 reg = <0x4500 0x100>;
2dff4177 1495 clock-frequency = <0>;
36793623 1496 interrupts = <0x42 2>;
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1498
1499 serial@4600 {
1500 device_type = "serial";
1501 compatible = "ns16550";
7e72063c 1502 reg = <0x4600 0x100>;
2dff4177 1503 clock-frequency = <0>;
36793623 1504 interrupts = <0x42 2>;
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1507
7e72063c 1508 pic: pic@40000 {
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1510 #address-cells = <0>;
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1512 reg = <0x40000 0x40000>;
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1514 device_type = "open-pic";
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1516
1517 i2c@3000 {
36793623 1518 interrupts = <0x43 2>;
7e72063c 1519 reg = <0x3000 0x100>;
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1521 dfsrr;
36793623 1522 sleep = <&pmc 0x00000004>;
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1524
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1526 compatible = "fsl,mpc8540-pmc", "fsl,mpc8548-pmc";
7e72063c 1527 reg = <0xe0070 0x20>;
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