[PATCHv3 2/9] ARM: OMAP2+: AM33XX: control: Add some control module registers and APIs

[Russ Dill]

>>> ARM world is also moving towards that by standardizing some of these
>>> through (read PSCI) and thats the way to go in general.
>>
>> Agreed, but I'm not sure (yet) about enforcing PSCI on legacy platforms
>> that don't support it natively.  Are you saying that the AM33xx firmware
>> should be converted to be PSCI compliant?  Admittedly, I haven't read
>> the PSCI spec closely, but I'm wondering if the current role splitting
>> between MPU and M3 fits well with PSCI.
>>
> I didn't mean for the AM3XXX specifically because its current job is rather
> very limited. i.e suspend. My concern is that IPC is not viewed as
> an option for power management controllers like M3 which can abstract
> all the hardware gory details and export a simpled interface for OS
> in form of PSCI/ACPI.

The IPC between the M3 and the A8 on the am335x is just a pair of
notification mechanisms (one from the A8, mailbox, and one from the
M3, sev) and a set of 8 32 bit registers. The 8 32 bit registers are
just a scratchpad and have no access rules or functionality beyond
being a scratchpad. How complicated do we want to make this?