Commit ed5edee2 authored by Alexandre Bounine's avatar Alexandre Bounine Committed by Linus Torvalds

rapidio: documentation update

Update RapidIO documentation files to reflect modularization changes.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andre van Herk <andre.van.herk@Prodrive.nl>
Cc: Micha Nelissen <micha.nelissen@Prodrive.nl>
Cc: Stef van Os <stef.van.os@Prodrive.nl>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 3bdbb62f
......@@ -73,28 +73,44 @@ data structure. This structure includes lists of all devices and local master
ports that form the same network. It also contains a pointer to the default
master port that is used to communicate with devices within the network.
2.5 Device Drivers
RapidIO device-specific drivers follow Linux Kernel Driver Model and are
intended to support specific RapidIO devices attached to the RapidIO network.
2.6 Subsystem Interfaces
RapidIO interconnect specification defines features that may be used to provide
one or more common service layers for all participating RapidIO devices. These
common services may act separately from device-specific drivers or be used by
device-specific drivers. Example of such service provider is the RIONET driver
which implements Ethernet-over-RapidIO interface. Because only one driver can be
registered for a device, all common RapidIO services have to be registered as
subsystem interfaces. This allows to have multiple common services attached to
the same device without blocking attachment of a device-specific driver.
3. Subsystem Initialization
---------------------------
In order to initialize the RapidIO subsystem, a platform must initialize and
register at least one master port within the RapidIO network. To register mport
within the subsystem controller driver initialization code calls function
within the subsystem controller driver's initialization code calls function
rio_register_mport() for each available master port.
RapidIO subsystem uses subsys_initcall() or device_initcall() to perform
controller initialization (depending on controller device type).
After all active master ports are registered with a RapidIO subsystem,
an enumeration and/or discovery routine may be called automatically or
by user-space command.
RapidIO subsystem can be configured to be built as a statically linked or
modular component of the kernel (see details below).
4. Enumeration and Discovery
----------------------------
4.1 Overview
------------
RapidIO subsystem configuration options allow users to specify enumeration and
RapidIO subsystem configuration options allow users to build enumeration and
discovery methods as statically linked components or loadable modules.
An enumeration/discovery method implementation and available input parameters
define how any given method can be attached to available RapidIO mports:
......@@ -115,8 +131,8 @@ several methods to initiate an enumeration and/or discovery process:
endpoint waits for enumeration to be completed. If the specified timeout
expires the discovery process is terminated without obtaining RapidIO network
information. NOTE: a timed out discovery process may be restarted later using
a user-space command as it is described later if the given endpoint was
enumerated successfully.
a user-space command as it is described below (if the given endpoint was
enumerated successfully).
(b) Statically linked enumeration and discovery process can be started by
a command from user space. This initiation method provides more flexibility
......@@ -138,15 +154,42 @@ When a network scan process is started it calls an enumeration or discovery
routine depending on the configured role of a master port: host or agent.
Enumeration is performed by a master port if it is configured as a host port by
assigning a host device ID greater than or equal to zero. A host device ID is
assigned to a master port through the kernel command line parameter "riohdid=",
or can be configured in a platform-specific manner. If the host device ID for
a specific master port is set to -1, the discovery process will be performed
for it.
assigning a host destination ID greater than or equal to zero. The host
destination ID can be assigned to a master port using various methods depending
on RapidIO subsystem build configuration:
(a) For a statically linked RapidIO subsystem core use command line parameter
"rapidio.hdid=" with a list of destination ID assignments in order of mport
device registration. For example, in a system with two RapidIO controllers
the command line parameter "rapidio.hdid=-1,7" will result in assignment of
the host destination ID=7 to the second RapidIO controller, while the first
one will be assigned destination ID=-1.
(b) If the RapidIO subsystem core is built as a loadable module, in addition
to the method shown above, the host destination ID(s) can be specified using
traditional methods of passing module parameter "hdid=" during its loading:
- from command line: "modprobe rapidio hdid=-1,7", or
- from modprobe configuration file using configuration command "options",
like in this example: "options rapidio hdid=-1,7". An example of modprobe
configuration file is provided in the section below.
NOTES:
(i) if "hdid=" parameter is omitted all available mport will be assigned
destination ID = -1;
(ii) the "hdid=" parameter in systems with multiple mports can have
destination ID assignments omitted from the end of list (default = -1).
If the host device ID for a specific master port is set to -1, the discovery
process will be performed for it.
The enumeration and discovery routines use RapidIO maintenance transactions
to access the configuration space of devices.
NOTE: If RapidIO switch-specific device drivers are built as loadable modules
they must be loaded before enumeration/discovery process starts.
This requirement is cased by the fact that enumeration/discovery methods invoke
vendor-specific callbacks on early stages.
4.2 Automatic Start of Enumeration and Discovery
------------------------------------------------
......@@ -266,7 +309,36 @@ method's module initialization routine calls rio_register_scan() to attach
an enumerator to a specified mport device (or devices). The basic enumerator
implementation demonstrates this process.
5. References
4.6 Using Loadable RapidIO Switch Drivers
-----------------------------------------
In the case when RapidIO switch drivers are built as loadable modules a user
must ensure that they are loaded before the enumeration/discovery starts.
This process can be automated by specifying pre- or post- dependencies in the
RapidIO-specific modprobe configuration file as shown in the example below.
File /etc/modprobe.d/rapidio.conf:
----------------------------------
# Configure RapidIO subsystem modules
# Set enumerator host destination ID (overrides kernel command line option)
options rapidio hdid=-1,2
# Load RapidIO switch drivers immediately after rapidio core module was loaded
softdep rapidio post: idt_gen2 idtcps tsi57x
# OR :
# Load RapidIO switch drivers just before rio-scan enumerator module is loaded
softdep rio-scan pre: idt_gen2 idtcps tsi57x
--------------------------
NOTE: In the example above, one of "softdep" commands must be removed or
commented out to keep required module loading sequence.
A. References
-------------
[1] RapidIO Trade Association. RapidIO Interconnect Specifications.
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......@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ device_rev - returns the device revision level
(see 4.1 for switch specific details)
lprev - returns name of previous device (switch) on the path to the device
that that owns this attribute
modalias - returns the device modalias
In addition to the files listed above, each device has a binary attribute file
that allows read/write access to the device configuration registers using
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