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+Device-Tree binding for regmap
+
+The endianness mode of CPU & Device scenarios:
+Index     Device     Endianness properties
+---------------------------------------------------
+1         BE         'big-endian'
+2         LE         'little-endian'
+
+For one device driver, which will run in different scenarios above
+on different SoCs using the devicetree, we need one way to simplify
+this.
+
+Required properties:
+- {big,little}-endian: these are boolean properties, if absent
+  meaning that the CPU and the Device are in the same endianness mode,
+  these properties are for register values and all the buffers only.
+
+Examples:
+Scenario 1 : CPU in LE mode & device in LE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+             compatible = "name";
+             reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+             ...
+};
+
+Scenario 2 : CPU in LE mode & device in BE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+             compatible = "name";
+             reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+             ...
+             big-endian;
+};
+
+Scenario 3 : CPU in BE mode & device in BE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+             compatible = "name";
+             reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+             ...
+};
+
+Scenario 4 : CPU in BE mode & device in LE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+             compatible = "name";
+             reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+             ...
+             little-endian;
+};