Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/syscon.yaml
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/syscon.yaml
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/syscon.yaml- Extension
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- 9717 bytes
- Lines
- 287
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- Documentation
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: configuration, schema, or hardware description
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
%YAML 1.2
---
$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/mfd/syscon.yaml#
$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
title: System Controller Devices
description: |
System controller node represents a register region containing a set
of miscellaneous registers. The registers are not cohesive enough to
represent as any specific type of device. The typical use-case is
for some other node's driver, or platform-specific code, to acquire
a reference to the syscon node (e.g. by phandle, node path, or
search using a specific compatible value), interrogate the node (or
associated OS driver) to determine the location of the registers,
and access the registers directly.
maintainers:
- Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
# Need a select with all compatibles listed for compatibility with older
# dtschema (<2024.02), so this will not be selected for other schemas having
# syscon fallback.
select:
properties:
compatible:
contains:
enum:
- airoha,en7581-pbus-csr
- al,alpine-sysfabric-service
- allwinner,sun8i-a83t-system-controller
- allwinner,sun8i-h3-system-controller
- allwinner,sun8i-v3s-system-controller
- allwinner,sun50i-a64-system-controller
- altr,l3regs
- altr,sdr-ctl
- amd,pensando-elba-syscon
- amlogic,meson-mx-assist
- amlogic,meson-mx-bootrom
- amlogic,meson8-analog-top
- amlogic,meson8b-analog-top
- amlogic,meson8-pmu
- amlogic,meson8b-pmu
- apm,merlin-poweroff-mailbox
- apm,mustang-poweroff-mailbox
- apm,xgene-csw
- apm,xgene-efuse
- apm,xgene-mcb
- apm,xgene-rb
- apm,xgene-scu
- atmel,sama5d2-sfrbu
- atmel,sama5d3-nfc-io
- atmel,sama5d3-sfrbu
- atmel,sama5d4-sfrbu
- axis,artpec6-syscon
- brcm,cru-clkset
- brcm,sr-cdru
- brcm,sr-mhb
- cirrus,ep7209-syscon1
- cirrus,ep7209-syscon2
- cirrus,ep7209-syscon3
- cnxt,cx92755-uc
- econet,en751221-chip-scu
- freecom,fsg-cs2-system-controller
- fsl,imx93-aonmix-ns-syscfg
- fsl,imx93-wakeupmix-syscfg
- fsl,ls1088a-reset
- fsl,vf610-anatop
- fsl,vf610-mscm-cpucfg
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.