[PATCH v5 3/5] OMAP4: hwmod data: add mailbox data

Ramirez Luna, Omar omar.ramirez at ti.com
Thu Feb 17 19:24:59 EST 2011


Hi Tony,

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> * 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?

I'm going to remove the names for the hwmods with a single irq. And
change the interface clock to be the main_clk, so it can be disabled
when runtime pm is disabled.

I won't resend the patch for OMAP4 hwmod data, as this was send
earlier by Benoit.

Regards,

Omar



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