devicetree: bindings: document Broadcom CPU enable method

Broadcom mobile SoCs use a ROM-implemented holding pen for
controlled boot of secondary cores.  A special register is
used to communicate to the ROM that a secondary core should
start executing kernel code.  This enable method is currently
used for members of the bcm281xx and bcm21664 SoC families.

The use of an enable method also allows the SMP operation vector to
be assigned as a result of device tree content for these SoCs.

Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@linaro.org>
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Broadcom Kona Family CPU Enable Method
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This binding defines the enable method used for starting secondary
CPUs in the following Broadcom SoCs:
BCM11130, BCM11140, BCM11351, BCM28145, BCM28155, BCM21664
The enable method is specified by defining the following required
properties in the "cpus" device tree node:
- enable-method = "brcm,bcm11351-cpu-method";
- secondary-boot-reg = <...>;
The secondary-boot-reg property is a u32 value that specifies the
physical address of the register used to request the ROM holding pen
code release a secondary CPU. The value written to the register is
formed by encoding the target CPU id into the low bits of the
physical start address it should jump to.
Example:
cpus {
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <0>;
enable-method = "brcm,bcm11351-cpu-method";
secondary-boot-reg = <0x3500417c>;
cpu0: cpu@0 {
device_type = "cpu";
compatible = "arm,cortex-a9";
reg = <0>;
};
cpu1: cpu@1 {
device_type = "cpu";
compatible = "arm,cortex-a9";
reg = <1>;
};
};