doc: bind man-page

provide a man-page for the bind command

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>

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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+:
+
+bind command
+============
+
+Synopsis
+--------
+
+::
+
+    bind <node path> <driver>
+    bind <class> <index> <driver>
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+The bind command is used to bind a device to a driver. This makes the
+device available in U-Boot.
+
+While binding to a *node path* typically provides a working device
+binding by parent node and driver may lead to a device that is only
+partially initialized.
+
+node path
+    path of the device's device-tree node
+
+class
+    device class name
+
+index
+    index of the parent device in the device class
+
+driver
+    device driver name
+
+Example
+-------
+
+Given a system with a real time clock device with device path */pl031@9010000*
+and using driver rtc-pl031 unbinding and binding of the device is demonstrated
+using the two alternative bind syntaxes.
+
+.. code-block::
+
+    => dm tree
+     Class     Index  Probed  Driver                Name
+    -----------------------------------------------------------
+     root          0  [ + ]   root_driver           root_driver
+    ...
+     rtc           0  [   ]   rtc-pl031             |-- pl031@9010000
+    ...
+    => fdt addr $fdtcontroladdr
+    Working FDT set to 7ed7fdb0
+    => fdt print
+    / {
+            interrupt-parent = <0x00008003>;
+            model = "linux,dummy-virt";
+            #size-cells = <0x00000002>;
+            #address-cells = <0x00000002>;
+            compatible = "linux,dummy-virt";
+    ...
+            pl031@9010000 {
+                    clock-names = "apb_pclk";
+                    clocks = <0x00008000>;
+                    interrupts = <0x00000000 0x00000002 0x00000004>;
+                    reg = <0x00000000 0x09010000 0x00000000 0x00001000>;
+                    compatible = "arm,pl031", "arm,primecell";
+            };
+    ...
+    }
+    => unbind /pl031@9010000
+    => date
+    Cannot find RTC: err=-19
+    => dm tree
+     Class     Index  Probed  Driver                Name
+    -----------------------------------------------------------
+     root          0  [ + ]   root_driver           root_driver
+    ...
+    => bind /pl031@9010000 rtc-pl031
+    => dm tree
+     Class     Index  Probed  Driver                Name
+    -----------------------------------------------------------
+     root          0  [ + ]   root_driver           root_driver
+    ...
+     rtc           0  [   ]   rtc-pl031             |-- pl031@9010000
+    => date
+    Date: 2023-06-22 (Thursday)    Time: 15:14:51
+    => unbind rtc 0 rtc-pl031
+    => bind root 0 rtc-pl031
+    => date
+    Date: 1980-08-19 (Tuesday)    Time: 14:45:30
+
+Obviously the device is not initialized correctly by the last bind command.
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+The bind command is only available if CONFIG_CMD_BIND=y.
+
+Return code
+-----------
+
+The return code $? is 0 (true) on success and 1 (false) on failure.

diff --git a/doc/usage/index.rst b/doc/usage/index.rst
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@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Shell commands
    cmd/askenv
    cmd/base
    cmd/bdinfo
+   cmd/bind
    cmd/blkcache
    cmd/bootd
    cmd/bootdev