On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 08:06:43AM -0500, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Texas Instrument's System Control Interface (TI-SCI) Message Protocol
> is used in Texas Instrument's System on Chip (SoC) such as those in
> newer SoCs in the keystone processor family starting with K2G.
> 
> This message protocol is used to communicate between various compute
> or processing entities (such as ARM, DSP etc.) with a central system
> controller entity.
> 
> TI-SCI message protocol provides support for management of various
> hardware entities within the SoC.
> 
> The message protocol can be found here:
> http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TISCI
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <n...@ti.com>
> ---
> Changes since v1:
>       - squashed the bindings changes for reset on review comments from
>               https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9291351/
> 
> V1: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9291343/
> 
>  .../devicetree/bindings/arm/keystone/ti,sci.txt    | 66 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  MAINTAINERS                                        |  8 +++
>  2 files changed, 74 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/keystone/ti,sci.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/keystone/ti,sci.txt 
> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/keystone/ti,sci.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..ed5b8fc185f1
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/keystone/ti,sci.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
> +Texas Instruments System Control Interface (TI-SCI) Message Protocol
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------
> +
> +Texas Instrument's processors including those belonging to Keystone 
> generation
> +of processors have separate hardware entity which is now responsible for the
> +management of the System on Chip (SoC) system. These include various system
> +level functions as well.
> +
> +An example of such an SoC is K2G, which contains the system control hardware
> +block called Power Management Micro Controller (PMMC). This hardware block is
> +initialized early into boot process and provides services to Operating 
> Systems
> +on multiple processors including ones running Linux.
> +
> +See http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TISCI for protocol definition.
> +
> +TI-SCI controller Device Node:
> +=============================
> +
> +Required properties:
> +--------------------
> +- compatible: should be "ti,k2g-sci"
> +- mbox-names:
> +     "rx" - Mailbox corresponding to receive path
> +     "tx" - Mailbox corresponding to transmit path
> +
> +- mboxes: Mailboxes corresponding to the mbox-names. Each value of the mboxes
> +       property should contain a phandle to the mailbox controller device
> +       node and an args specifier that will be the phandle to the intended
> +       sub-mailbox child node to be used for communication.
> +
> +See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt for more details
> +about the generic mailbox controller and client driver bindings. Also see
> +Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/ti,message-manager.txt for typical
> +controller that is used to communicate with this System controllers.
> +
> +Optional Properties:
> +--------------------
> +- reg-names:
> +     debug_messages - Map the Debug message region
> +- reg:  register space corresponding to the debug_messages
> +- ti,system-reboot-controller: If system reboot can be triggered by SoC 
> reboot
> +
> +Example (K2G):
> +--------
> +     pmmc: pmmc {
> +             compatible = "ti,k2g-sci";
> +             mbox-names = "rx", "tx";
> +             mboxes= <&msgmgr &msgmgr_proxy_pmmc_rx>,
> +                     <&msgmgr &msgmgr_proxy_pmmc_tx>;
> +             reg-names = "debug_messages";
> +             reg = <0x02921800 0x800>;
> +     };
> +
> +
> +TI-SCI Client Device Node:
> +========================
> +
> +Client nodes refer to the required TI-SCI device using the "ti,sci" property.

As I mentioned for power domains, for clients that are self contained 
(i.e. a single function) I think the should be child nodes.

> +
> +Example (K2G):
> +-------------
> +     my_dev_node: dev_node {
> +             ...
> +             ti,sci = <&pmmc>;
> +             ...
> +     }
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 20bb1d00098c..ce7306897ae0 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -11564,6 +11564,14 @@ S:   Maintained
>  F:   arch/xtensa/
>  F:   drivers/irqchip/irq-xtensa-*
>  
> +Texas Instruments' System Control Interface (TISCI) Protocol Driver
> +M:   Nishanth Menon <n...@ti.com>
> +M:   Tero Kristo <t-kri...@ti.com>
> +M:   Santosh Shilimkar <ssant...@kernel.org>
> +L:   linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org
> +S:   Maintained
> +F:   Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/keystone/ti,sci.txt
> +
>  THANKO'S RAREMONO AM/FM/SW RADIO RECEIVER USB DRIVER
>  M:   Hans Verkuil <hverk...@xs4all.nl>
>  L:   linux-me...@vger.kernel.org
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> 

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