[PATCH 2/3 v7] mailbox: Enable BCM2835 mailbox support

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Tue May 5 12:32:14 PDT 2015


On 05/04/2015 08:30 PM, Jassi Brar wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:27 AM, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
>> Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> +
>>>> +struct bcm2835_mbox {
>>>> +       struct device *dev;
>>>> +       void __iomem *regs;
>>>> +       spinlock_t lock;
>>>> +       struct mbox_controller controller;
>>>> +};
>>>> +
>>>> +static struct bcm2835_mbox *mbox;
>>>> +
>>>> +static irqreturn_t bcm2835_mbox_irq(int irq, void *dev_id)
>>>> +{
>>>> +       struct device *dev = mbox->dev;
>>>> +       struct mbox_chan *link = &mbox->controller.chans[0];
>>>> +
>>> I learn from Stephen's other post that the controller could have
>>> multiple channels. In which case this driver is poorly setup. Actually
>>> if the driver was designed properly there isn't anything special to be
>>> done.
>>>   Here you choose to waste 'dev_id' and hard-code dereferencing to channel-0
>>
>> There's only the one channel according to the docs.  I wish we wouldn't
>> get derailed by speculation on the list when the documentation is
>> available. :(
>>
> Can I have the pointer to the doc please, if its publicly available.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BCM2835-ARM-Peripherals.pdf



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