[PATCH v5 3/5] OMAP4: hwmod data: add mailbox data
Tony Lindgren
tony at atomide.com
Thu Feb 17 18:39:09 EST 2011
* Ramirez Luna, Omar <omar.ramirez at ti.com> [110215 16:11]:
>
> > If you have to do several platform_get_irq_byname to get this one, I'd
> > prefer to get rid of that name for OMAP4. It will make mailbox irq
> > consistent with the other hwmods.
>
> I was thinking to standardize the names to be mbox0..mboxN across all
> the platforms, reason being that the mailbox also has capabilities to
> be used not only by dsp or iva, by using a polling method.
>
> So even if the mailbox in OMAP3 is called "dsp", it has 4 more queues
> apart from the 2 used for messaging between arm and dsp, that could be
> used even if tidspbridge wasn't there.
So what's the status of this series? Can the rest of the patches
now be applied on top of the current omap-for-linus or do the names
still need fixing?
Tony
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