freebsd-nq/share/man/man4/aw_syscon.4
Kyle Evans a9f41deff6 Introduce aw_syscon(4) for earlier attachment
Attaching syscon_generic earlier than BUS_PASS_DEFAULT makes it more
difficult for specific syscon drivers to attach to the syscon node and to
get ordering right. Further discussion yielded the following set of
decisions:

- Move syscon_generic to BUS_PASS_DEFAULT
- If a platform needs a syscon with different attach order or probe
behavior, it should subclass syscon_generic and match on the SoC specific
compat string
- When we come across a need for a syscon that attaches earlier but only
specifies compatible = "syscon", we should create a syscon_exclusive driver
that provides generic access but probes earlier and only matches if "syscon"
is the only compatible. Such fdt nodes do exist in the wild right now, but
we don't really use them at the moment.

Additionally:

- Any syscon provider that has needs any more complex than a spinlock solely
for syscon access and a single memory resource should subclass syscon
directly rather than attempting to subclass syscon_generic or add complexity
to it. syscon_generic's attach/detach methods may be made public should the
need arise to subclass it with additional attach/detach behavior.

We introduce aw_syscon(4) that just subclasses syscon_generic but probes
earlier to meet our requirements for if_awg and implements #2 above for this
specific situation. It currently only matches a64/a83t/h3 since these are
the only platforms that really need it at the time being.

Discussed with:	ian
Reviewed by:	manu, andrew, bcr (manpages, content unchanged since review)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13793
2018-01-13 18:46:31 +00:00

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.Dd January 7, 2018
.Dt AW_SYSCON 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm aw_syscon
.Nd driver for the system controller in Allwinner SoC
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
device driver provides support for the Allwinner system controller.
This controller provides registers for tying together related functionality in a
common space.
.Nm
is required for ethernet functionality on supported devices.
.Sh HARDWARE
The
.Nm
driver supports the system controller with one of the following compatible
strings:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
allwinner,sun50i-a64-system-controller
.It
allwinner,sun8i-a83t-system-controller
.It
allwinner,sun8i-h3-system-controller
.El
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
device driver was written by
.An Kyle Evans Aq Mt kevans@FreeBSD.org .