[PATCH v4 0/5] Mailbox: Provide support STi based platforms
Jassi Brar
jaswinder.singh at linaro.org
Thu Oct 15 21:18:54 PDT 2015
On 5 October 2015 at 18:32, Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi Jassi,
>
> This should be it. Exciting times!
>
> ST's platforms currently support a maximum of 5 Mailboxes, one for
> each of the supported co-processors situated on the platform. Each
> Mailbox is divided up into 4 instances which consist of 32 channels.
> Messages are passed between the application and co-processors using
> shared memory areas.
>
> Also included in the set is an example Client which should be generic
> enough to use as a testing environment for all Mailbox IPs which use
> shared memory or the API to pass messages. With small changes, it
> should also be able to test more extravagant implementations.
>
> v3 -> v4:
> - More protection in MBOX_BASE() MACRO
> - Remove unused tx-only marker
>
Are you sure about the tx-only marker? :)
Since it is also a DT property, I think we should have it removed
before we apply the patchset. Lets get it done today.
Thanks
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