Was reading the Device Tree Usage and reached to the section describing the ranges
key attribute for a node.
external-bus {
#address-cells = <2>
#size-cells = <1>;
ranges = <0 0 0x10100000 0x10000 // Chipselect 1, Ethernet
1 0 0x10160000 0x10000 // Chipselect 2, i2c controller
2 0 0x30000000 0x1000000>; // Chipselect 3, NOR Flash
ethernet@0,0 {
compatible = "smc,smc91c111";
reg = <0 0 0x1000>;
interrupts = < 5 2 >;
};
i2c@1,0 {
compatible = "acme,a1234-i2c-bus";
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <0>;
reg = <1 0 0x1000>;
interrupts = < 6 2 >;
rtc@58 {
compatible = "maxim,ds1338";
reg = <58>;
interrupts = < 7 3 >;
};
};
flash@2,0 {
compatible = "samsung,k8f1315ebm", "cfi-flash";
reg = <2 0 0x4000000>;
};
};
- What is the difference between
ranges
andreg
? - What are the dimensions for the ranges, how the parser figure out what is written in it?
- One missing part I didn't understand yet? Can't include
.h
files instead of hard-coding values in a the.dts
file?