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+ZHAW InES PTP time stamping IP core
+
+The IP core needs two different kinds of nodes. The control node
+lives somewhere in the memory map and specifies the address of the
+control registers. There can be up to three port handles placed as
+attributes of PHY nodes. These associate a particular MII bus with a
+port index within the IP core.
+
+Required properties of the control node:
+
+- compatible: "ines,ptp-ctrl"
+- reg: physical address and size of the register bank
+
+Required format of the port handle within the PHY node:
+
+- timestamper: provides control node reference and
+ the port channel within the IP core
+
+Example:
+
+ tstamper: timestamper@60000000 {
+ compatible = "ines,ptp-ctrl";
+ reg = <0x60000000 0x80>;
+ };
+
+ ethernet@80000000 {
+ ...
+ mdio {
+ ...
+ phy@3 {
+ ...
+ timestamper = <&tstamper 0>;
+ };
+ };
+ };
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+Time stamps from MII bus snooping devices
+
+This binding supports non-PHY devices that snoop the MII bus and
+provide time stamps. In contrast to PHY time stamping drivers (which
+can simply attach their interface directly to the PHY instance), stand
+alone MII time stamping drivers use this binding to specify the
+connection between the snooping device and a given network interface.
+
+Non-PHY MII time stamping drivers typically talk to the control
+interface over another bus like I2C, SPI, UART, or via a memory mapped
+peripheral. This controller device is associated with one or more
+time stamping channels, each of which snoops on a MII bus.
+
+The "timestamper" property lives in a phy node and links a time
+stamping channel from the controller device to that phy's MII bus.
+
+Example:
+
+ tstamper: timestamper@10000000 {
+ compatible = "bigcorp,ts-ctrl";
+ };
+
+ ethernet@20000000 {
+ mdio {
+ phy@1 {
+ timestamper = <&tstamper 0>;
+ };
+ };
+ };
+
+ ethernet@30000000 {
+ mdio {
+ phy@2 {
+ timestamper = <&tstamper 1>;
+ };
+ };
+ };
+
+In this example, time stamps from the MII bus attached to phy@1 will
+appear on time stamp channel 0 (zero), and those from phy@2 appear on
+channel 1.
This patch add a new binding that allows non-PHY MII time stamping devices to find their buses. The new documentation covers both the generic binding and one upcoming user. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ptp/ptp-ines.txt | 35 ++++++++++++++++++ .../devicetree/bindings/ptp/timestamper.txt | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 76 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ptp/ptp-ines.txt create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ptp/timestamper.txt