NAME
simplebus —
ePAPR simple-bus driver
SYNOPSIS
options FDT
DESCRIPTION
This bus driver is dedicated for the simple-bus node of a flattened device tree compliant with the ePAPR specification.The simplebus entity does not represent
any physical element by itself, it is rather an umbrella node grouping
integrated on-chip peripherals like interrupt controller, connectivity
controllers, accelerating engines and so on.
The driver is generic and common for all flattened device tree nodes claiming simple-bus compatibility. It iterates over direct descendants of the simple-bus node, instantiates newbus children and assigns resources to them, based on the configuration data retrieved from the nodes properties in fdt(4).
Note the simplebus does not manage device
resources and passes through any requests to the
fdtbus(4) layer.
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
Power.org Standard for Embedded Power Architecture Platform Requirements (ePAPR).
HISTORY
The simplebus support first appeared in
FreeBSD 9.0.
AUTHORS
The simplebus support was developed by
Semihalf under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation. This manual page was
written by Rafal Jaworowski.