[PATCH v7 0/3] Broadcom FlexRM ring manager support

Anup Patel anup.patel at broadcom.com
Tue Mar 28 22:52:25 PDT 2017


On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Anup Patel <anup.patel at broadcom.com> wrote:
>> The Broadcom FlexRM ring manager provides producer-consumer style
>> ring interface for offload engines on Broadcom iProc SoCs. We can
>> have one or more instances of Broadcom FlexRM ring manager in a SoC.
>>
>> This patchset adds a mailbox driver for Broadcom FlexRM ring manager
>> which can be used by offload engine drivers as mailbox clients.
>>
>> The Broadcom FlexRM mailbox driver is feature complete for RAID and
>> Crypto offload engines. We will have incremental patches in-future
>> for ring-level statistics using debugfs and minor optimizations.
>>
>> This patchset is based on Linux-4.11-rc4 and it is also available
>> at flexrm-v7 branch of https://github.com/Broadcom/arm64-linux.git
>>
>> Changes since v6:
>>  - Rebased patches for Linux-4.11-rc4
>>  - Added a patch to remove depends on COMPILE_TEST for kconfig
>>    option BCM_FLEXRM_MBOX
>>
> You only needed to send the fix to compilation failure reports, not
> the whole series.

My bad for the noise.

> I believe only the patch-3 is new in the series and I need not even
> look at patch-1,2 ?

Yes, only patch-3 is required to fix compilation failure.

Regards,
Anup



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