On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 03:01:19PM +0930, Andrew Jeffery wrote: > Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) are embedded SoCs that exist to > provide remote management of (primarily) server platforms. BMCs are > often tightly coupled to the platform in terms of behaviour and provide > many hardware features integral to booting and running the host system. > > Some of these hardware features are simple, for example scratch > registers provided by the BMC that are exposed to both the host and the > BMC. In other cases there's a single bit switch to enable or disable > some of the provided functionality. > > The documentation defines bindings for fields in registers that do not > integrate well into other driver models yet must be described to allow > the BMC kernel to assume control of these features.
So we'll get a new binding when that happens? That will break compatibility. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <and...@aj.id.au> > --- > > Since RFC v1: > > * Add a commit message > * Minor changes to documented labels > > .../bindings/misc/bmc-misc-ctrl.txt | 252 ++++++++++++++++++ > MAINTAINERS | 6 + > 2 files changed, 258 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/bmc-misc-ctrl.txt > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/bmc-misc-ctrl.txt > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/bmc-misc-ctrl.txt > new file mode 100644 > index 000000000000..2c869fcc7ef2 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/bmc-misc-ctrl.txt > @@ -0,0 +1,252 @@ > +BMC Miscellaneous Control Interfaces > +==================================== > + > +Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) often have an array of hardware > +features that need to be described but are awkward to sensibly expose. > + > +This bindings document provides a generic mechanism for describing such > +features, covering read-only (RO), read-modify-write (RMW) and > +write-1-set/write-1-clear (W1SC) semantics. If we wanted a generic mechanism for single register bits/fields in DT, we'd have one already. A node per register bit doesn't scale. Maybe this should be modelled using GPIO binding? There's a line there too as whether the signals are "general purpose" or not. Rob
