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2025-11-24Merge tag 'v2026.01-rc3' into nextTom Rini
Prepare v2026.01-rc3
2025-11-21doc: add include/test/ut.h to HTML documentationHeinrich Schuchardt
The asserts in ut.h are often used. Provide online documentation. Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>
2025-11-20Introduce the Generic System Interconnect SubsystemNeil Armstrong
Let's introduce the Generic System Interconnect subsystem based on the counterpart Linux framework which is used to vote for bandwidth across multiple SoC busses. Documentation for the Linux Generic System Interconnect Subsystem can be found at [1]. Each bus endpoints are materialised as "nodes" which are linked together, and the DT will specify a pair of nodes to enable and set a bandwidth on the route between those endpoints. The hardware resources that provide those nodes and provides the way to vote for the bandwidth are called "providers". The Interconnect uclass code is heavily based on the Linux one, with some small differences: - nodes are allocated as udevices instead of Linux idr_alloc() - tag management is minimal, only normal xlate is supported - getting nodes states at probe is not implemented - providers are probed on demand while the nodes links are traversed - nodes are populated on bind - id management is simplified, static IDs and dynamics IDs can be used - identical consume API as Linux, only implementation differs Fully tested with associated DM test suite. [1] https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/interconnect.html Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <[email protected]>
2025-08-06drivers: i3c: Add i3c uclass driver.Dinesh Maniyam
Enable i3c general uclass driver. This uclass driver will have genaral read and write api to call the specific i3c driver. Signed-off-by: Dinesh Maniyam <[email protected]>
2025-06-25doc: add lmb documentationSughosh Ganu
The LMB module has undergone significant changes in the recent past. Add a document which briefly describes what the LMB module does, and the changes that have been made to it's design since the 2025.01 release. Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <[email protected]> Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]>
2025-04-23uthread: add cooperative multi-tasking interfaceJerome Forissier
Add a new internal API called uthread (Kconfig symbol: UTHREAD) which provides cooperative multi-tasking. The goal is to be able to improve the performance of some parts of U-Boot by overlapping lengthy operations, and also implement background jobs in the U-Boot shell. Each uthread has its own stack allocated on the heap. The default stack size is defined by the UTHREAD_STACK_SIZE symbol and is used when uthread_create() receives zero for the stack_sz argument. The implementation is based on context-switching via initjmp()/setjmp()/ longjmp() and is inspired from barebox threads [1]. A notion of thread group helps with dependencies, such as when a thread needs to block until a number of other threads have returned. The name "uthread" comes from "user-space threads" because the scheduling happens with no help from a higher privileged mode, contrary to more complex models where kernel threads are defined. But the 'u' may as well stand for 'U-Boot' since the bootloader may actually be running at any privilege level and the notion of user vs. kernel may not make much sense in this context. [1] https://github.com/barebox/barebox/blob/master/common/bthread.c Signed-off-by: Jerome Forissier <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]>
2025-04-23arch: introduce initjmp() and Kconfig symbol HAVE_INITJMPJerome Forissier
Add the HAVE_INIJMP symbol to be set by architectures that support initjmp(), a non-standard extension to setjmp()/longjmp() allowing to initialize a jump buffer with a function pointer and a stack pointer. This will be useful to later introduce threads. With this new function it becomes possible to longjmp() to a particular function pointer (rather than to a point previously reached during program execution as is the case with setjmp()), and with a custom stack. Both things are needed to spin off a new thread. Then the usual setjmp()/longjmp() pair is enough to save and restore a context, i.e., switch thread. Add the initjmp() prototype to <include/setjmp.h> since it is common to all architectures. Add an entry to the API documentation: doc/api/setjmp.rst. Signed-off-by: Jerome Forissier <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]>
2024-10-30doc: include file-system API into HTML docsHeinrich Schuchardt
Add include/fs.h to the API documentation. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>
2024-10-10doc: introduce led.rst documentationChristian Marangi
Introduce simple led.rst documentation to document all the additional Kconfig and the current limitation of LED_BLINK and GPIO software blink. Also add missing definition for sw_blink in led_uc_plat struct. Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
2024-07-16doc: api: bootcount: Convert to rST documentationVasileios Amoiridis
Move to the new documentation style with rST formatting. Signed-off-by: Vasileios Amoiridis <[email protected]>
2023-11-02riscv: allow resume after exceptionHeinrich Schuchardt
If CSRs like seed are readable by S-mode, may not be determinable by S-mode. For safe driver probing allow to resume via a longjmp after an exception. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Leo Yu-Chi Liang <[email protected]>
2023-09-02doc: add events.h to documentationHeinrich Schuchardt
Add the events.h include to the API documentation. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
2023-08-15doc: add partition API to HTML documentationHeinrich Schuchardt
* Convert comments in part.h to Sphinx style. * Create documentation page for the partition API. * Add the partition API page to the API index page. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
2022-06-08misc: Add support for nvmem cellsSean Anderson
This adds support for "nvmem cells" as seen in Linux. The nvmem device class in Linux is used for various assorted ROMs and EEPROMs. In this sense, it is similar to UCLASS_MISC, but also includes UCLASS_I2C_EEPROM, UCLASS_RTC, and UCLASS_MTD. New drivers corresponding to a Linux-style nvmem device should be implemented as one of the previously-mentioned uclasses. The nvmem API acts as a compatibility layer to adapt the (slightly different) APIs of these uclasses. It also handles the lookup of nvmem cells. While nvmem devices can be accessed directly, they are most often used by reading/writing contiguous values called "cells". Cells typically hold information like calibration, versions, or configuration (such as mac addresses). nvmem devices can specify "cells" in their device tree: qfprom: eeprom@700000 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; reg = <0x00700000 0x100000>; /* ... */ tsens_calibration: calib@404 { reg = <0x404 0x10>; }; }; which can then be referenced like: tsens { /* ... */ nvmem-cells = <&tsens_calibration>; nvmem-cell-names = "calibration"; }; The tsens driver could then read the calibration value like: struct nvmem_cell cal_cell; u8 cal[16]; nvmem_cell_get_by_name(dev, "calibration", &cal_cell); nvmem_cell_read(&cal_cell, cal, sizeof(cal)); Because nvmem devices are not all of the same uclass, supported uclasses must register a nvmem_interface struct. This allows CONFIG_NVMEM to be enabled without depending on specific uclasses. At the moment, nvmem_interface is very bare-bones, and assumes that no initialization is necessary. However, this could be amended in the future. Although I2C_EEPROM and MISC are quite similar (and could likely be unified), they present different read/write function signatures. To abstract over this, NVMEM uses the same read/write signature as Linux. In particular, short read/writes are not allowed, which is allowed by MISC. The functionality implemented by nvmem cells is very similar to that provided by i2c_eeprom_partition. "fixed-partition"s for eeproms does not seem to have made its way into Linux or into any device tree other than sandbox. It is possible that with the introduction of this API it would be possible to remove it. Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <[email protected]>
2022-02-25clk: Add client API to HTML docsSean Anderson
This converts the existing client (aka clk.h) documentation to kernel doc format, and adds it to the HTML docs. I have tried to preserve existing comments as much as possible, refraining from semantic changes. Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <[email protected]> Tested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [rebased onto u-boot/master and resolved conflicts] Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <[email protected]>
2022-01-15doc: add include/dm/uclass.h to the HTML documentationPatrick Delaunay
Correct Sphinx style comments in include/dm/uclass.h and add the driver model UCLASS API to the HTML documentation. Signed-off-by: Patrick Delaunay <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>
2021-11-20doc: add include/lmb.h to the HTML documentationHeinrich Schuchardt
Correct Sphinx style comments in include/lmb.h Add the logical memory block API to the HTML documentation. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]> Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]>
2021-10-21doc: add system reset to API documentationHeinrich Schuchardt
Complete the Sphinx documentation in include/sysreset.h Add the include to the generated HTML documentation of the U-Boot API. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>
2021-01-27doc: fix doc/develop/logging.rstHeinrich Schuchardt
Sphinx 3 builds fail due to doc/develop/logging.rst producing duplicate labels. Include logging.h only once in the API section and use cross-references for the enums log_level_t and log_category_t. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>
2020-11-05doc: add sandbox APIHeinrich Schuchardt
Add sandbox API to generated HTML documentation Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
2020-10-30lib: Add getoptSean Anderson
Some commands can get very unweildy if they have too many positional arguments. Adding options makes them easier to read, remember, and understand. This implementation of getopt has been taken from barebox, which has had option support for quite a while. I have made a few modifications to their version, such as the removal of opterr in favor of a separate getopt_silent function. In addition, I have moved all global variables into struct getopt_context. The getopt from barebox also re-orders the arguments passed to it so that non-options are placed last. This allows users to specify options anywhere. For example, `ls -l foo/ -R` would be re-ordered to `ls -l -R foo/` as getopt parsed the options. However, this feature conflicts with the const argv in cmd_tbl->cmd. This was originally added in 54841ab50c ("Make sure that argv[] argument pointers are not modified."). The reason stated in that commit is that hush requires argv to stay unmodified. Has this situation changed? Barebox also uses hush, and does not have this problem. Perhaps we could use their fix? I have assigned maintenance of getopt to Simon Glass, as it is currently only used by the log command. I would also be fine maintaining it. Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <[email protected]>
2020-10-22doc: Document timer APISean Anderson
This adds kerneldocs for <timer.h>. I don't know who should maintain doc/api/timer.rst, since the timer subsystem seems to be maintained by SoC maintainers. MAINTAINERS is left un-updated for the moment. Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
2020-10-08pinctrl: Reformat documentation in dm/pinctrl.hSean Anderson
This normalizes the documentation to conform to kernel-doc style [1]. It also moves the documentation for pinctrl_ops inline, and adds argument and return-value documentation. I have kept the usual function style for these comments. I could not find any existing examples of function documentation inside structs. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/doc-guide/kernel-doc.html Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
2020-06-14doc: random number generationHeinrich Schuchardt
Add random number generation APIs to the HTML documentation. Fix style issues. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>
2020-05-25doc: dfu: add DFU to HTML documentationHeinrich Schuchardt
Add the device firmware update functions to the generated HTML documentation. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]> Acked-by: Lukasz Majewski <[email protected]>
2020-05-09doc: add Unicode functions to API descriptionHeinrich Schuchardt
Add include/charset.h to generated HTML documentation Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>
2019-07-24doc: Move existing rst files into api sub-directoryBin Meng
Currently the Sphinx doc only contains API descriptions of several U-Boot subsystems. For future extension, group these existing docs into an API sub-directory. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>