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4 | 4 | This document describes generic bindings which can be used to describe I2C |
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5 | | -busses in a device tree. |
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| 5 | +busses and their child devices in a device tree. |
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6 | 6 | |
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7 | | -Required properties |
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8 | | -------------------- |
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| 7 | +Required properties (per bus) |
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| 8 | +----------------------------- |
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9 | 9 | |
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10 | 10 | - #address-cells - should be <1>. Read more about addresses below. |
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11 | 11 | - #size-cells - should be <0>. |
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12 | | -- compatible - name of I2C bus controller following generic names |
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13 | | - recommended practice. |
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| 12 | +- compatible - name of I2C bus controller |
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14 | 13 | |
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15 | 14 | For other required properties e.g. to describe register sets, |
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16 | 15 | clocks, etc. check the binding documentation of the specific driver. |
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17 | 16 | |
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18 | 17 | The cells properties above define that an address of children of an I2C bus |
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19 | | -are described by a single value. This is usually a 7 bit address. However, |
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20 | | -flags can be attached to the address. I2C_TEN_BIT_ADDRESS is used to mark a 10 |
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21 | | -bit address. It is needed to avoid the ambiguity between e.g. a 7 bit address |
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22 | | -of 0x50 and a 10 bit address of 0x050 which, in theory, can be on the same bus. |
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23 | | -Another flag is I2C_OWN_SLAVE_ADDRESS to mark addresses on which we listen to |
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24 | | -be devices ourselves. |
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| 18 | +are described by a single value. |
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25 | 19 | |
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26 | | -Optional properties |
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27 | | -------------------- |
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| 20 | +Optional properties (per bus) |
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| 21 | +----------------------------- |
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28 | 22 | |
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29 | 23 | These properties may not be supported by all drivers. However, if a driver |
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30 | | -wants to support one of the below features, it should adapt the bindings below. |
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| 24 | +wants to support one of the below features, it should adapt these bindings. |
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31 | 25 | |
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32 | 26 | - clock-frequency |
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33 | 27 | frequency of bus clock in Hz. |
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55 | 49 | Number of nanoseconds the SDA signal takes to fall; t(f) in the I2C |
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56 | 50 | specification. |
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57 | 51 | |
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| 52 | +- i2c-analog-filter |
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| 53 | + Enable analog filter for i2c lines. |
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| 54 | + |
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| 55 | +- i2c-digital-filter |
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| 56 | + Enable digital filter for i2c lines. |
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| 57 | + |
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| 58 | +- i2c-digital-filter-width-ns |
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| 59 | + Width of spikes which can be filtered by digital filter |
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| 60 | + (i2c-digital-filter). This width is specified in nanoseconds. |
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| 61 | + |
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| 62 | +- i2c-analog-filter-cutoff-frequency |
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| 63 | + Frequency that the analog filter (i2c-analog-filter) uses to distinguish |
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| 64 | + which signal to filter. Signal with higher frequency than specified will |
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| 65 | + be filtered out. Only lower frequency will pass (this is applicable to |
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| 66 | + a low-pass analog filter). Typical value should be above the normal |
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| 67 | + i2c bus clock frequency (clock-frequency). |
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| 68 | + Specified in Hz. |
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| 69 | + |
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| 70 | +- multi-master |
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| 71 | + states that there is another master active on this bus. The OS can use |
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| 72 | + this information to adapt power management to keep the arbitration awake |
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| 73 | + all the time, for example. Can not be combined with 'single-master'. |
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| 74 | + |
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| 75 | +- pinctrl |
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| 76 | + add extra pinctrl to configure SCL/SDA pins to GPIO function for bus |
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| 77 | + recovery, call it "gpio" or "recovery" (deprecated) state |
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| 78 | + |
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| 79 | +- scl-gpios |
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| 80 | + specify the gpio related to SCL pin. Used for GPIO bus recovery. |
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| 81 | + |
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| 82 | +- sda-gpios |
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| 83 | + specify the gpio related to SDA pin. Optional for GPIO bus recovery. |
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| 84 | + |
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| 85 | +- single-master |
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| 86 | + states that there is no other master active on this bus. The OS can use |
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| 87 | + this information to detect a stalled bus more reliably, for example. |
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| 88 | + Can not be combined with 'multi-master'. |
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| 90 | +- smbus |
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| 91 | + states that additional SMBus restrictions and features apply to this bus. |
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| 92 | + Examples of features are SMBusHostNotify and SMBusAlert. Examples of |
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| 93 | + restrictions are more reserved addresses and timeout definitions. |
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| 94 | + |
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| 95 | +Required properties (per child device) |
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| 96 | +-------------------------------------- |
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| 97 | + |
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| 98 | +- compatible |
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| 99 | + name of I2C slave device |
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| 100 | + |
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| 101 | +- reg |
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| 102 | + One or many I2C slave addresses. These are usually a 7 bit addresses. |
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| 103 | + However, flags can be attached to an address. I2C_TEN_BIT_ADDRESS is |
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| 104 | + used to mark a 10 bit address. It is needed to avoid the ambiguity |
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| 105 | + between e.g. a 7 bit address of 0x50 and a 10 bit address of 0x050 |
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| 106 | + which, in theory, can be on the same bus. |
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| 107 | + Another flag is I2C_OWN_SLAVE_ADDRESS to mark addresses on which we |
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| 108 | + listen to be devices ourselves. |
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| 109 | + |
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| 110 | +Optional properties (per child device) |
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| 111 | +-------------------------------------- |
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| 112 | + |
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| 113 | +These properties may not be supported by all drivers. However, if a driver |
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| 114 | +wants to support one of the below features, it should adapt these bindings. |
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| 115 | + |
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| 116 | +- host-notify |
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| 117 | + device uses SMBus host notify protocol instead of interrupt line. |
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| 118 | + |
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58 | 119 | - interrupts |
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59 | 120 | interrupts used by the device. |
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60 | 121 | |
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62 | 123 | "irq", "wakeup" and "smbus_alert" names are recognized by I2C core, |
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63 | 124 | other names are left to individual drivers. |
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64 | 125 | |
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65 | | -- host-notify |
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66 | | - device uses SMBus host notify protocol instead of interrupt line. |
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67 | | - |
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68 | | -- multi-master |
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69 | | - states that there is another master active on this bus. The OS can use |
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70 | | - this information to adapt power management to keep the arbitration awake |
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71 | | - all the time, for example. |
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72 | | - |
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73 | | -- wakeup-source |
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74 | | - device can be used as a wakeup source. |
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75 | | - |
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76 | | -- reg |
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77 | | - I2C slave addresses |
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78 | | - |
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79 | 126 | - reg-names |
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80 | 127 | Names of map programmable addresses. |
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81 | 128 | It can contain any map needing another address than default one. |
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| 129 | + |
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| 130 | +- wakeup-source |
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| 131 | + device can be used as a wakeup source. |
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82 | 132 | |
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83 | 133 | Binding may contain optional "interrupts" property, describing interrupts |
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84 | 134 | used by the device. I2C core will assign "irq" interrupt (or the very first |
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85 | 135 | interrupt if not using interrupt names) as primary interrupt for the slave. |
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86 | 136 | |
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87 | | -Alternatively, devices supporting SMbus Host Notify, and connected to |
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| 137 | +Alternatively, devices supporting SMBus Host Notify, and connected to |
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88 | 138 | adapters that support this feature, may use "host-notify" property. I2C |
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89 | 139 | core will create a virtual interrupt for Host Notify and assign it as |
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90 | 140 | primary interrupt for the slave. |
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