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[PATCHv3,1/2] dt/bindings: Add the DT binding documentation for endianness

Message ID 1398833029-29546-2-git-send-email-Li.Xiubo@freescale.com
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Xiubo Li April 30, 2014, 4:43 a.m. UTC 
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@freescale.com>
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 .../devicetree/bindings/endianness/endianness.txt  | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/endianness/endianness.txt
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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/endianness/endianness.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/endianness/endianness.txt
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+Device-Tree binding for device endianness
+
+The endianness mode of CPU & Device scenarios:
+Index    CPU       Device     Endianess flag for DT bool property
+------------------------------------------------------------
+1        LE        LE         -
+2        LE        BE         'big-endian{,-*}'
+3        BE        BE         -
+4        BE        LE         'little-endian{,-*}'
+
+For one device driver, which will run in different scenarios above
+on different SoCs using the devicetree, we need one way to simplify
+this.
+
+Required properties:
+- {big,little}-endian{,-*}: this is one boolean property.
+
+Examples:
+Scenario 1 : CPU in LE mode & device in LE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+	      compatible = "name";
+	      reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+	      ...
+};
+
+Scenario 2 : CPU in LE mode & device in BE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+	      compatible = "name";
+	      reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+	      ...
+	      big-endian{,-*};
+};
+
+Scenario 3 : CPU in BE mode & device in BE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+	      compatible = "name";
+	      reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+	      ...
+};
+
+Scenario 4 : CPU in BE mode & device in LE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+	      compatible = "name";
+	      reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+	      ...
+	      little-endian{,-*};
+};