Documentation: bindings: dma: Add binding for dma-channel-mask
authorJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 20:24:17 +0000 (12:24 -0800)
committerVinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
Mon, 4 Feb 2019 09:00:28 +0000 (14:30 +0530)
Some dma channels can be reserved for secure mode or other
hardware on the SoC, so provide a binding for a bitmask
listing the available channels for the kernel to use.

This follows the pre-existing bcm,dma-channel-mask binding.

Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Tanglei Han <hantanglei@huawei.com>
Cc: Zhuangluan Su <suzhuangluan@hisilicon.com>
Cc: Ryan Grachek <ryan@edited.us>
Cc: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
Cc: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/dma.txt

index 6312fb0..eeb4e4d 100644 (file)
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ Optional properties:
 - dma-channels:        Number of DMA channels supported by the controller.
 - dma-requests:        Number of DMA request signals supported by the
                        controller.
+- dma-channel-mask:    Bitmask of available DMA channels in ascending order
+                       that are not reserved by firmware and are available to
+                       the kernel. i.e. first channel corresponds to LSB.
 
 Example:
 
@@ -29,6 +32,7 @@ Example:
                #dma-cells = <1>;
                dma-channels = <32>;
                dma-requests = <127>;
+               dma-channel-mask = <0xfffe>
        };
 
 * DMA router