[PATCH 1/9] mailbox: OMAP: introduce mailbox framework

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Tue Dec 18 11:59:09 EST 2012


* Loic Pallardy <loic.pallardy-ext at stericsson.com> [121218 05:15]:
> Actually moving it from plat-omap, as this framework/driver code is
> supposed to be under drivers/ folder. The framework should work with
> the current supported OMAP processors (OMAP1+) that have mailbox and
> can be used as a method of interprocessor communication.
> 
> The mailbox hardware (in OMAP) uses a queued mailbox-interrupt mechanism
> that provides a communication channel between processors through a set of
> registers and their associated interrupt signals by sending and receiving
> messages.
> 
> As part of the migration from plat and mach code:
> - Kconfig symbols have been renamed to build OMAP1 or OMAP2+ drivers.
> - mailbox.h has been changed from plat to a dedicated drivers/ folder.
> - soc.h has been changed for plat/cpu.h, since there are dependencies in
>   the cpu_is_XXXX() macro.
> 
> Module names have changed too, instead of mailbox_mach:
> - OMAP1: mailbox-omap1.ko
> - OMAP2+: mailbox-omap2.ko
> 
> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.luna at linaro.org>

AFAIK the first two patches should have:
From: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.luna at linaro.org>

Once that's fixed, for arch/arm/*omap*/* parts:

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>



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